The CFRM Toolkit: Methods for understanding consumers in a changing world of finance
Consumer finance globally is undergoing a process of rapid change. How can we adapt our research methods to understand changing consumer behaviour? The newly-launched CFRM Toolkit reviews cutting-edge methods in consumer finance research. Read More
Mobile money aesthetics: Text, display, and the cultural logics of concealment
Erin Taylor looks at the promises and practicalities of mobile money, drawing on a chapter published in The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media (2014) Read More
New Ernest Dichter online archive
Stefan Schwarzkopf highlights the launch of a fascinating archive of all the market and consumer research reports compiled by the famous (and notorious) motivation researcher Ernest Dichter between 1935 and the 1980s Read More
Is it really so hard to sell better security to the poor?
In the context of the never-ending story cycle of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act this article considers the perennial question of why the poor have so often throughout history been considered resistant to policy reforms that were designed in their own interests. Read More
Surgery for breakfast
Hannah Bradby on the uptake of increasingly invasive plastic surgery procedures and how their meaning is shifting Read More
What’s in a smile? Oral health, consumption and technology
Drawing on recent research, Simon Carter, Judy Green and Nicki Thorogood examine the consequences of the increasing commodification of the toothbrush Read More
Plastic economies
Gay Hawkins on Accumulation: The Material Politics of Plastic, a new collection co-edited with Jennifer Gabrys and Mike Michael Read More
Saving public money: The new moral economy of recycling
Katy Wheeler on the changing moral economy of recycling and the effects of different systems of recycling provision Read More
Daisy goes to market
Keith Spiller on how animals and pictures of animals may be helping to reconnect consumers with what they consume Read More
Street Markets: the forgotten sites of commerce, innovation and connection
Sophie Watson on how street markets are sites for not only trading, but also the production of publics and global socio-economic networks Read More
