Consuming People: From Political Economy to Theaters of Consumption

By I. Clarke. 2000

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ENGINEERING THE ENTREPRENEURIAL INFANT: BRAIN SCIENCE, INFANT DEVELOPMENT TOYS, AND GOVERNMENTALITY (2002, background): “Already educated on the role of consumption as a means for achieving identity (Firat and Kholakia, 1998), parents may not question the toys’ marketing premises.”
Working consumers: the next step in marketing theory? (2009, background): “Consumers go to markets to produce their identity – specifically their self-images (Firat and Dholakia, 1998).”
The Field behind the Screen: Using Netnography for Marketing Research in Online Communities (2002, background): “In summary, throughout netnographic data collection and analysis, marketing researchers must be conscious that they are analyzing the content of an online community’s communicative acts rather than the complete set of observed acts of consumers in a particular community.”
Toward a conceptualization of the online shopping experience (2014, background): “These processes may be the search for identity and self-image (Firat and Dholakia, 1998).”
Extended Self in a Digital World (2013, background): “But it does suggest that online personality is not as fragmented and fluid as some postmodern theorists suggest (e.g., Firat and Dholakia 1998; Firat and Venkatesh 1995).”
Situated lifestyles: I. How lifestyles change along with the level of urbanization and what the greenhouse gas implications are—a study of Finland (2013, background): “Frequently, lifestyles have been seen as a product of the values of individuals (e.g. Bauman 2000, Firat and Dholakia 1998, Bin and Dowlatabadi 2005).”
Mapping Ethical Consumer Behavior: Integrating the Empirical Research and Identifying Future Directions (2011, background): “However, such a focus is important, because “understanding ourselves as people who consume may explain much of what we are about as human beings, since in late modernity, many claim, consumption is much of our life” (Fuat Firat & Dholakia, 2003, p. 2).”
The Ethical Backlash of Corporate Branding (2007, background): “For postmodern thinkers, the fragmentation and fluidity of the self symbolizes the emancipation of the individual with ‘‘the theaters of consumption’’ serving as key driving forces (Firat and Dholakia, 1998).”