Whilst reflecting on the Margins of Consumption seminar day, in a supervisory meeting, Sue, Mike and I came to discuss aspects of Sue’s research on Love (and its effects on consumption habits). Mike and I identified parts of our own research that related to this, particularly in relation to the aspect of compromising our habits [...]
Entries from June 2009
June 23, 2009
The agency of things!
The willard Hotel in D.C.
The ‘agency’ of things?
This is the Willard Hotel in Washington; if you look closely you can see it is on a famous street, and I walked past it when I was at a conference recently. Nothing remarkable, I know…but then I saw a placard on the wall (indeed there [...]
June 22, 2009
Taxing consumer acts: Connecting us to civic society?
Richard visiting his distant relative in Washington 09
Tax systems shape how we think about consumption
“Taxes class themselves readily according to the basis on which they rest. 1. Capital. 2. Income. 3. Consumption. ……………A government may select either of these bases for the establishment of its system of taxation, and so frame it as to [...]
June 19, 2009
Looking forward to the new iPhone 3G.
I’ve just been reading Bauman’s relentlessly depressing The Individualized Society. There is a short essay on instant gratification that deals in part with the way our ability to either locate ourselves in any grand narrative of progress, or to defer gratification for a later time (or life) is lost and replaced with individualised consumer experiences [...]
June 17, 2009
Marketing and Public Policy
American Marketing Association – Conference on public policy and Marketing – Washington DC May 27-30 2009
Having presented a paper at the Advances in Consumer Research last October we were asked if we would consider adopting our paper to address the focus of this conference – specifically the implications of our paper for public policy [...]
June 17, 2009
The Accidental Citizen
The ‘Accidental’ Citizen: Some reflections
Richard Scullion
ECCG at Bournemouth University
An account of the relationship between citizen and consumer affords key difference to the two notions. They are considered at some levels in very ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ terms, one good the other bad, one worthy the other of dubious character, one suggestive of a progressive society the [...]
June 15, 2009
Reflecting on the Margins of Marketing seminar
In my short summary of the day I noted that we (the academics that make up the informal group that is ECCG) might be well placed to work at the margins of consumer research because we are in fact very much at the margins of the academy. We work in a new university that has [...]
June 15, 2009
Margins of Marketing Seminar
On the 12th June 2009 The ECCG held a seminar where we discussed the margins of marketing. I’m going to try to capture some of the discussion here, but I’ve included recordings too. The academics in ECCG wanted to hold an event that was not like the usual academic conference. We didn’t want long, finished papers and we [...]
