Cynical identity projects as consumer resistance The scrooge as a social critic?

Consumption Markets and Culture

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 99-116

  Mikkonen, Ilona ^a   Moisander, Johanna ^a   Firat, A Fuat ^b  

^a HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Christmas; Consumer culture; Consumer cynicism; Consumer power; Consumer resistance; Holidays; Internet; Postmodernism; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952373523     PISSN: 10253866     EISSN: 1477223X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10253866.2011.541163     Document Type: Article

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