Mit einer grundlegend neuen Qualitätstheorie des Konsums zeigt Ernst Mohr: Distanz und Nähe werden im Sozialen konsumierend kommuniziert und durch Kommunikation produziert. Er positioniert Stile postmoderner Gruppen – wie bspw. Hip-Hop, Punk, Skinhead, Hipster, Pop – mit jenen des...

This thesis engages with the organizing of participation in participatory art that constitutes the so-called social turn in contemporary visual art. The purpose of the research project is to generate new knowledge about participatory art, in particular, by investigating the organizational...

Sound and civic engagement -- The lure of audio recording -- Newfoundlanders on record : from the 1950s to the early 1970s -- A unique music industry -- The trouble with genre -- Sonic signatures -- Past and possibilities : audio recording and/as action -- Just because you can : the RPM...

"Culture is a priceless inheritance and source of wellbeing that is of immense value to humankind. Cultural economics sets out to examine the nature and social benefits of cultural products and phenomena as they exist in the market. This volume is the masterpiece of Li Yining, one of the...

Why do some societies fail to adopt more efficient political and economic institutions in response to changing economic conditions? And why do such conditions sometimes generate conservative ideological backlashes and, at other times, progressive social and political movements? We propose an...

This transdisciplinary study scientifically reports the way the established contemporary dance sector in Europe operates from a micro-perspective. It provides a dance scholarly and sociological interpretation of its mechanisms by coupling qualitative data (interview material, observations,...

Inhaltsverzeichnis: Politics of recuperation. An introduction / Francisco Martínez -- Recuperative modes of action: Reciprocity, dependence and resistance to austerity policies in rural Portugal / Ema Pires -- Beautiful people eat ugly fruit: Ugliness and the cracks of the system / André...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to describe the status of culture studies within the field of international business research, and to examine how two main paradigms - essentialism and social constructivism - relate to the discourse in this field. We analyze the main points of the two...

This book explores the illusions that pervade contemporary consumption as well as the forces of globalization, localization, and hybridization that affect consumption throughout our interconnected world.

Werbung gibt es, seit Menschen anderen etwas verkaufen wollen, also schon immer. Als eigener Wirtschaftszweig mit theoretischer Fundierung hat sie sich aber erst seit dem Ersten Weltkrieg etabliert. Der Band versammelt die wichtigsten Texte zum Begriff der Marke, zu den Methoden der Werbung, zu...

Acknowledgements -- Introduction: cultural work and justice -- Justice for cultural objects -- Practices, ethics and cultural work -- Talent, merit and arts education -- The long day closes : access and opportunity in cultural work -- The wages of art : "basic economics" or basic inequality? --...

Reading new currents in consumer culture theory / Eileen Fischer and John F. Sherry, Jr -- Rethinking fundamental notions : selves, others and systems -- Consumers in an age of autonomous and semi-autonomous machines / Russell Belk -- Market value of diversity and ethnicity : a cultural analysis...