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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Review: Eva Illouz The End of Love: A Sociology of Negative Relations	74
Divestment as investment: “Kondo-ing” selves in the context of overaccumulation	58
Postfeminism, consumption and activewear: Examining women consumers’ relationship with the postfeminine ideal	16
Book review: Geopolitical economy of sport	15
Conspicuous prosumption: Expressing class via materially productive leisure	13
The garden party: Refrains on literature as consumer research	13
The good life as accountable: Moralities of dress consumption in China and Romania	13
Social representations of pleasure in gambling among young adults: Between homo ludens and homo economicus	12
Governing individuals’ imaginaries and conduct in personal finance: The mobilization of emotions in financial education	11
Book Review: Review of diners, dudes, and diets: How gender and power collide in food media and culture	11
Access to arts consumption: The stratification of aesthetic life-chances	10
Men becoming fighters: Exploring processes of consumer socialization	10
Consumption, migration, and urban life	9
If it ain’t Dutch, it ain’t much: Vereeniging Nederlandsch Fabrikaat, the citizen-consumer and Dutch nationalist consumption in the interwar Netherlands	7
Memories reminisced, reconciled, renewed: Hong Kong male consumers’ wardrobes and their search for a congruent self	7
Prosumer activism: The case of Britney Spears’ Brazilian fandom	6
Hidden inequalities of ease: A practice-theoretical approach to understanding the links between social deprivation and diet	6
Mobile trust regimes: Modes of attachment in an age of banal omnivorousness	6
How humanized birth practice became an experience connected to neoliberal philosophy	6
Consuming the city: People-watching and dialectics of everyday urban life	6
Book Review: The End of Love: A Sociology of Negative Relations Polity	5
Marketable religion: How game company Ubisoft commodified religion for a global audience	5
Creative destruction? Exploring the deliberate destruction of possessions by consumers	5
Analyzing the consumer journey for hiking of the John Muir Trail	5
Gendered fandom in transcultural context- female-dominated paratexts and compromised fan culture	5

Eating the money: Diabetes and the embodiment of consumer culture	5
Entitlements, Payments, Enterprise: framing pocket money in teenage girls’ consumption practices	5
“Who made my clothes?” How transparency apps bring politics to cultural fields	5
Vulgar things: Moral dilemmas of luxury consumption in an unequal society	5
Feeding masculine norms: Representations of (non-) meat and masculinities in food advertising	4
Aspirational taste regime: Masculinities and consumption in pick-up artist training in China	4
Cross-cultural perspectives on ethical consumption: A study of Swedish and Iranian citizens	4
Reshaping female consumer subjectivity: Beauty consumption practices in Li Jiaqi’s livestream room	4
Servicescapes emplacing masculinity: Pursuing fighter identity at the martial arts gym	3
The making of the upgrade money: Home, Turkish housewives and digital secondhand marketplaces	3
Book Review: Platforms and Cultural Production	3
(Un)sustainable everyday practices sociomateriality shaping sustainability in an urban district	3
Consumer sovereignty and the Greek economic crisis: (Dis)continuity of consumer sovereignty repertoires	3
Between Wellness and Elegance: Yoga Consumption in China	3
What Counts—Why Growth Economics is Failing Us	3
Supermarket tribes and the temple of Aldi: A comparison between the UK and Australia	3
Materialism versus memory: Collecting football shirts in the age of consumerism	3
Redefining consumer nationalism: The ambiguities of shopping yellow during the 2019 Hong Kong Anti-ELAB movement	3
Exploring the process of remote enculturation through heritage possessions: A case study of transracial international adoptees	3
Towards a monumental experience: Fandom and corporate imaginary within the LEGO inside tour	3
Re-enchanting sustainable consumption: Cultural intermediaries, charisma, and fashion	2
Remembering summer in the city: Production and consumption of yanqishui in twentieth-century Shanghai	2
Between conspicuous and conscious consumption: The sustainability paradox in the intermediary promotional work of an online lifestyle site	2
Performing balanced aspirations through identity capital: A case study of Chinese Ivy League influencers on RedNote	2
Bad avocados, culinary standards, and knowable knowledge. Culturally appropriate rejections of meat reduction	2
Digital comfort amidst precarity: New middle classes’ experience of well-being and hardship in pandemic times in Brazil	2
Marking humans for consumption, whilst erasing others: Affective becomings and the workings of (dis)comfort	2
I am a virtual girl from Tokyo: Virtual influencers, digital-orientalism and the (Im)materiality of race and gender	1
Tales from the crypt: A psychoanalytic approach to disability representation in advertising	1
Tennis and accelerated culture: Post-athlete as a media performer	1
Book Review: Digital Playgrounds: The Hidden Politics of Children’s Online Play Spaces, Virtual Worlds, and Connected Games	1
Platform urbanism in a pandemic: Dark stores, ghost kitchens, and the logistical-urban frontier	1
Being social for whom? Issues of monetization, exploitation, and alienation in mobile social games	1
Understanding violence on British university campuses through the lens of the deviant leisure perspective	1
Book Review: Profit over privacy review	1
Breaking through banal consumerism? Representations of postconsumerist perspectives in mainstream press media	1
Grandparenting relations in advertising’s ‘familial fictions’	1
Book Review: Deciphering Markets and Money. A Sociological Analysis of Economic Institutions	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
Beyond existential and neoliberal explanations of consumers’ embodied risk-taking: CrossFit as an articulation of reflexive modernization	1