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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Prosumer activism: The case of Britney Spears’ Brazilian fandom	49
How humanized birth practice became an experience connected to neoliberal philosophy	45
What is in a bag? Doing and becoming subjectivity	41
Legitimating taste in cultural fields: Generational classifications and symbolic struggles in representations of ‘natural’ wine	36
Consumer parenting, cultural processes, and the reproduction of class inequality	32
Consuming the city: People-watching and dialectics of everyday urban life	22
Book Review: Vegas Brews: Craft Beer and The Birth of a Local Scene	16
Book Review: Eva Illouz The End of Love: A Sociology of Negative Relations	11
If it ain’t Dutch, it ain’t much: Vereeniging Nederlandsch Fabrikaat, the citizen-consumer and Dutch nationalist consumption in the interwar Netherlands	11
Towards a monumental experience: Fandom and corporate imaginary within the LEGO inside tour	11
Hidden inequalities of ease: A practice-theoretical approach to understanding the links between social deprivation and diet	10
Mobile trust regimes: Modes of attachment in an age of banal omnivorousness	10
Naive, connected, and counselor tween girl identity groups: Consumption practices and social identity constructions within consumer culture	10
Materialism versus memory: Collecting football shirts in the age of consumerism	10
Redefining consumer nationalism: The ambiguities of shopping yellow during the 2019 Hong Kong Anti-ELAB movement	9
Conceptualising ethical consumption within theories of practice	9
Is there a relationship between implicit motives and eating action types: An exploratory study in Germany	8
Eating the money: Diabetes and the embodiment of consumer culture	8
Creative destruction? Exploring the deliberate destruction of possessions by consumers	6
Post-digital prosumption and the sharing economy of space: The pay-per-minute cafe	6
Book Review: Addictive Consumption: Capitalism, Modernity and Excess	6
Divestment as investment: “Kondo-ing” selves in the context of overaccumulation	5
Trajectories towards a voluntary simplicity lifestyle and inner growth	5
Book review: Geopolitical economy of sport	5
‘We can’t participate like this at football, can we’? Exploring in-person performative prosumer fandom at live PDC darts events	5

#BecomingYou: Discourses of authenticity, work, and success in South African consumer culture	5
A model who looks like me: Communicating and consuming representations of disability	4
Alice in… buying: The consumption of experiences in the worldly experience and aspects of socialization	4
“Inspiring” and configuring consumer experience in times of crisis: An analysis of the discursive practices of an Athenian shopping mall’s promotional system	4
Periphery fandom: Contrasting fans’ productive experiences across the globe	4
Marketable religion: How game company Ubisoft commodified religion for a global audience	3
Between conspicuous and conscious consumption: The sustainability paradox in the intermediary promotional work of an online lifestyle site	3
Tales from the crypt: A psychoanalytic approach to disability representation in advertising	3
Postfeminism, consumption and activewear: Examining women consumers’ relationship with the postfeminine ideal	3
Book Review: Deciphering Markets and Money. A Sociological Analysis of Economic Institutions	3
Consumer movements, brand activism, and the participatory politics of media: A conversation	3
Between Wellness and Elegance: Yoga Consumption in China	3
Gendered fandom in transcultural context- female-dominated paratexts and compromised fan culture	3
Platform urbanism in a pandemic: Dark stores, ghost kitchens, and the logistical-urban frontier	3
Bad avocados, culinary standards, and knowable knowledge. Culturally appropriate rejections of meat reduction	3
Consumer sovereignty and the Greek economic crisis: (Dis)continuity of consumer sovereignty repertoires	3
The conflict market: Polarizing consumer culture(s) in counter-democracy	2
Book Review: Fashioning China: Precarious creativity and women designers in Shanzhai culture	2
Tennis and accelerated culture: Post-athlete as a media performer	2
Inconspicuous adaptations to climate change in everyday life: Sustainable household responses to drought and heat in Czech cities	2
Got to be real: An investigation into the co-fabrication of authenticity by fashion companies and digital influencers	2
“Who made my clothes?” How transparency apps bring politics to cultural fields	2
Materials changing the performance of the household energy consumption practices	2
Cultural stratification in the UK: Persistent gender and class differences in cultural voraciousness	2
The right to shine: Poverty, consumption and (de) politicization in neoliberal Brazil	2
Longing for the West: The literary utopia of consumption in communist Romania	2
Digital comfort amidst precarity: New middle classes’ experience of well-being and hardship in pandemic times in Brazil	2
The consumer, the market and the universal aristocracy: The ideology of academisation in England	1
Exploring routinization and reflexivity in change and reproduction of consumption towards lower climate impact	1
The assemblage of British politics’ breaking point	1
Curating and co-producing atmospheres in street food markets: Exploring the roles and interplay between people, food and spaces	1
Book Review: The End of Love: A Sociology of Negative Relations Polity	1
Crossing consumption fields: Acculturation and status consumption of Chinese student sojourners attending U.S. universities	1
Video gaming as craft consumption	1
The evolving moral economy of indebtedness in Chile: resignifying credit and debt in the oldest neoliberal society	1
Re-enchanting sustainable consumption: Cultural intermediaries, charisma, and fashion	1
Beyond existential and neoliberal explanations of consumers’ embodied risk-taking: CrossFit as an articulation of reflexive modernization	1
Book Review: Upsetting Food: Three Eras of Food Protests in the United States	1
The German space of lifestyles: A multidetermined structure	1
Omnivorous cultural consumption and the co-creation of cultural products: Interactive versus participatory art	1
Trouble in virtual heaven: Origin and consequences of social conflict in online consumption communities	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
Book Review: Profit over privacy review	1
Book Review: Digital Playgrounds: The Hidden Politics of Children’s Online Play Spaces, Virtual Worlds, and Connected Games	1
The good life as accountable: Moralities of dress consumption in China and Romania	1
Mega-events, expansion and prospects: Perceptions of Euro 2020 and its 12-country hosting format	1
Remembering summer in the city: Production and consumption of yanqishui in twentieth-century Shanghai	1
Analyzing the consumer journey for hiking of the John Muir Trail	1
No place like home? Producing and consuming eldercare design	1
Breaking through banal consumerism? Representations of postconsumerist perspectives in mainstream press media	1

Flaneuring the buyosphere: A comparative historical analysis of shopping environments and phantasmagorias