Consumer Citizenship in Postnational Constellations?

The Development of Consumer-Based Consumption Constellations in Children

Wal-Mart, American consumer citizenship, and the 2008 recession

This article explores dominant ideological framings of the economic crisis that began in 2008, by examining shifting meanings of consumer citizenship in the US. The consumer citizen was a central figure in Keynesian ideology—one that encapsulated important assumptions about the proper relationship between production and consumption and the appropriate arenas for citizen engagement with the econ...

Protein Constellations

In this project, I applied several well-known ideas developed in the computer vision field to problems in protein structure matching. Shape indexing and generalized Hough transforms are classical ideas and have been applied to protein structure matching before (eg, [1, 11, 14]). However, I am using a different representation of protein shape and different matching criteria, which yield results ...

Consumer education between ‘consumership’ and citizenship: experiences from studies of young people

The aim of consumer education has been mainly to teach and educate students to act as informed, rational and prudent consumers. This perception of consumption as reasoned behaviour or action is inadequate in the late modern society, where consumerism is first and foremost characterized by globalization, cultural change and the liberation of the individual. The results of a research study involv...

Corporate citizenship and its impact upon consumer moralisation, decision-making and choice

Businesses are increasingly embracing corporate citizenship strategies. However, the empirical literature surrounding consumer responses to such practices features many contradictions concerning their impact. As a result, many businesses are uncertain about the extent to which they should commit resources to these activities to influence a positive response from consumers. Therefore, this paper...