OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Consumer Culture is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Review: Eva Illouz The End of Love: A Sociology of Negative Relations	63
Postfeminism, consumption and activewear: Examining women consumers’ relationship with the postfeminine ideal	53
Book review: Geopolitical economy of sport	51
Divestment as investment: “Kondo-ing” selves in the context of overaccumulation	16
The good life as accountable: Moralities of dress consumption in China and Romania	15
Conspicuous prosumption: Expressing class via materially productive leisure	13
Book Review: Review of diners, dudes, and diets: How gender and power collide in food media and culture	13
Governing individuals’ imaginaries and conduct in personal finance: The mobilization of emotions in financial education	12
The wall unit: State policy and the emergence of fashion in People’s Poland	11
Men becoming fighters: Exploring processes of consumer socialization	11
Access to arts consumption: The stratification of aesthetic life-chances	11
Locking-down instituted practices: Understanding sustainability in the context of ‘domestic’ consumption in the remaking	10
Memories reminisced, reconciled, renewed: Hong Kong male consumers’ wardrobes and their search for a congruent self	10
If it ain’t Dutch, it ain’t much: Vereeniging Nederlandsch Fabrikaat, the citizen-consumer and Dutch nationalist consumption in the interwar Netherlands	9
How humanized birth practice became an experience connected to neoliberal philosophy	8
Book Review: Vegas Brews: Craft Beer and The Birth of a Local Scene	8
Consuming the city: People-watching and dialectics of everyday urban life	7
Creative destruction? Exploring the deliberate destruction of possessions by consumers	6
Hidden inequalities of ease: A practice-theoretical approach to understanding the links between social deprivation and diet	6
Gendered fandom in transcultural context- female-dominated paratexts and compromised fan culture	6
Prosumer activism: The case of Britney Spears’ Brazilian fandom	6
Eating the money: Diabetes and the embodiment of consumer culture	6
Mobile trust regimes: Modes of attachment in an age of banal omnivorousness	6
Book Review: The End of Love: A Sociology of Negative Relations Polity	5
“Who made my clothes?” How transparency apps bring politics to cultural fields	5

Aspirational taste regime: Masculinities and consumption in pick-up artist training in China	5
Marketable religion: How game company Ubisoft commodified religion for a global audience	5
Book Review: Upsetting Food: Three Eras of Food Protests in the United States	4
Reshaping female consumer subjectivity: Beauty consumption practices in Li Jiaqi’s livestream room	4
Feeding masculine norms: Representations of (non-) meat and masculinities in food advertising	4
A short ethnography of twenty-first century consumers: On retail rage and one-dimensionality	4
Analyzing the consumer journey for hiking of the John Muir Trail	4
Entitlements, Payments, Enterprise: framing pocket money in teenage girls’ consumption practices	4
Book Review: Platforms and Cultural Production	3
Supermarket tribes and the temple of Aldi: A comparison between the UK and Australia	3
Exploring the process of remote enculturation through heritage possessions: A case study of transracial international adoptees	3
Cross-cultural perspectives on ethical consumption: A study of Swedish and Iranian citizens	3
(Un)sustainable everyday practices sociomateriality shaping sustainability in an urban district	3
What Counts—Why Growth Economics is Failing Us	3
Materialism versus memory: Collecting football shirts in the age of consumerism	2
Between Wellness and Elegance: Yoga Consumption in China	2
Between conspicuous and conscious consumption: The sustainability paradox in the intermediary promotional work of an online lifestyle site	2
Towards a monumental experience: Fandom and corporate imaginary within the LEGO inside tour	2
Servicescapes emplacing masculinity: Pursuing fighter identity at the martial arts gym	2
Bad avocados, culinary standards, and knowable knowledge. Culturally appropriate rejections of meat reduction	2
Redefining consumer nationalism: The ambiguities of shopping yellow during the 2019 Hong Kong Anti-ELAB movement	2
The making of the upgrade money: Home, Turkish housewives and digital secondhand marketplaces	2
Consumer sovereignty and the Greek economic crisis: (Dis)continuity of consumer sovereignty repertoires	2
Digital comfort amidst precarity: New middle classes’ experience of well-being and hardship in pandemic times in Brazil	2
Beyond existential and neoliberal explanations of consumers’ embodied risk-taking: CrossFit as an articulation of reflexive modernization	1
Book Review: Deciphering Markets and Money. A Sociological Analysis of Economic Institutions	1
Re-enchanting sustainable consumption: Cultural intermediaries, charisma, and fashion	1
Performing balanced aspirations through identity capital: A case study of Chinese Ivy League influencers on RedNote	1
Grandparenting relations in advertising’s ‘familial fictions’	1
Tales from the crypt: A psychoanalytic approach to disability representation in advertising	1
Book Review: Digital Playgrounds: The Hidden Politics of Children’s Online Play Spaces, Virtual Worlds, and Connected Games	1
Comfort, modernity and gender equality at home. Discourses on the modernization of the family and household in Poland from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s	1
No place like home? Producing and consuming eldercare design	1
Book Review: The Age of Fitness: How the Body Came to Symbolize Success and Achievement	1
I am a virtual girl from Tokyo: Virtual influencers, digital-orientalism and the (Im)materiality of race and gender	1
Platform urbanism in a pandemic: Dark stores, ghost kitchens, and the logistical-urban frontier	1
Breaking through banal consumerism? Representations of postconsumerist perspectives in mainstream press media	1
Tennis and accelerated culture: Post-athlete as a media performer	1
Understanding violence on British university campuses through the lens of the deviant leisure perspective	1
Remembering summer in the city: Production and consumption of yanqishui in twentieth-century Shanghai	1
Marking humans for consumption, whilst erasing others: Affective becomings and the workings of (dis)comfort	1
Being social for whom? Issues of monetization, exploitation, and alienation in mobile social games	1
Book Review: Profit over privacy review	1