Lived Experiences of Public Consumption
Encounters with Value in Marketplaces on Five Continents
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Leisure and Consumption
Forms and practices of leisure exist in dynamic and uneasy tension with the interests and demands of commerce. Conceptually, leisure and consumption appear to be at odds with one another; practically, in every...
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Introduction: Dramaturgies of Value in Market Places
The contemporary dominance of global capitalism rests strongly on the continued ideological vigor of a particular notion of `the market’ as much as it does on the availability of capital, the efficiency of dis...
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Children as Consumers
For the better part of a century, merchants, marketers and advertisers have recognized, attended to and engaged with children as consumers in some fashion. Early twentieth-century dry goods and department stor...
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Children’s Subjectivities and Commercial Meaning: The Delicate Battle Mothers Wage When Feeding Their Children
This chapter seeks to challenge a generally held and widely voiced conviction that posits that marketing and advertising ‘invade’ family life. It is a view based on an assumption that commerce originates outsi...
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Commercial Enculturation: Moving Beyond Consumer Socialization
The scholarly attention paid to children’s commercial lives and the consumer culture of childhood in recent years belies some of the slippages and disjunctions that remain between the fields of childhood studi...
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Introduction: Broadening the Conversation
Violence, conflict, and war challenge received, normative understandings about the ‘nature’ of children and boundaries of childhood. In the disruption and destruction of the lives of children, their families a...
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Conclusion: Crossing Disciplines
The contributions gathered here collectively offer an angle of vision on children and armed conflict otherwise inaccessible from any one of them individually. Taken together, they pose problems and questions t...
