Purpose This study aims to offer understanding of the parent – child relationship by examining, through a socio-material lens, how one aspect of the new child surveillance technology market, child GPS trackers (CGT), are rejected or adopted by families, highlighting implications for child...

PurposeUsing the family activity of hobby stock-keeping (“petstock”) as a context, this paper aims to extend singularization theory to model the negotiations, agencies and resistances of children, parents and petstock, as they work through how animals become food within the boundaries of the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine children's consumption experiences within families in order to investigate the role that different family environments play in the consumer socialisation of children. Design/methodology/approach – Key consumer socialisation literature is...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the potential of material‐semiotic ontology to the field of anti‐consumption research. Design/methodology/approach – The paper's approach is multi‐site ethnography, following a consumer object, the Omlet Eglu, to trace a field of...

Purpose – This paper explores how siblings act as agents of consumer socialisation within the dynamics of the family network. Design/methodology/approach – Key consumer socialisation literature is reviewed, highlighting the growing role that siblings play in the lives of contemporary...