Dr. Margit Keller is a senior researcher in social communication in the Institute of Social Studies, at the University of Tartu, Estonia. She chairs the Research Network of Sociology of Consumption in the European Sociological Association.Dr. Bente Halkier is a professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology, at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.Dr. Terhi-Anna Wilska is a professor of sociology in the Faculty of Social Sciences, at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Dr. Monica Truninger is a senior research fellow in the Institute of Social Sciences, at the University of Lisbon, Portugal.

• List of figures and tables List of contributors Preface 1 Consumption research revisited: Charting of the territory and introducing the handbookBente Halkier, Margit Keller, Monica Truninger and Terhi-Anna WilskaPART ITheoretical and methodological perspectives on consumption 2 Consumer culture theory Russell Belk3 Studying consumption through the lens of practice Alan Warde, Daniel Welch and Jessica Paddock4 Methods and methods’ debates within consumption research Bente Halkier5 Ruminations on the current state of consumer ethnography Robert V. Kozinets and Eric J. ArnouldPART IIConsumers and markets: Introduction 6 Marketing and consumer research: An uneasy relationship Matthias Bode and Søren Askegaard7 Consumers and brands: How consumers co-create Siwarit Pongsakornrungsilp and Jonathan E. Schroeder8 From production and consumption to prosumption: A personal journey and its larger context George Ritzer9 Collaborative consumption and sharing economies Stefan Wahlen and Mikko Laamanen10 Crises and consumption 1Sebastian KoosPART IIIGlobal challenges in consumption: Introduction 11 Consumption in the web of local and global relations of dominance and belonging Güliz Ger12 China – the emerging consumer power LiAnne Yu13 Consumption in Brazil – the field of new consumer studies and the phenomenon of the "new middle classes" Livia Barbosa and John Wilkinson14 Russia: Postsocialist consumer culture Olga Gurova15 Bridging North/South divides through consumer driven networks Laura T. RaynoldsPART IVPolitics and policies of consumption: Introduction 16 Political consumption – citizenship and consumerism Eivind Jacobsen17 Food labelling as a response to political consumption: Effects and contradictions Adrian Evans and Mara Miele18 Consumption policies within different theoretical frameworks Dale Southerton and David Evans19 Citizen-consumers: Consumer protection and empowerment Arne Dulsrud20 Practice change and interventions into consumers’ everyday lives Margit Keller and Triin Vihalemm21 Behaviorally informed consumer policy: Research and policy for "humans" Lucia A. Reisch and John B. ThøgersenPART VConsumption and social divisions: Introduction 22 Poverty, financing and social exclusion in consumption research Pernille Hohnen23 Poverty and food (in)security Monica Truninger and Cecilia Díaz-Méndez24 Materiality, migration and cultural diversity Marta Vilar Rosales25 Gender, sexuality and consumption Pauline Maclaran, Cele C. Otnes and Linda Tuncay Zayer26 Children as consumers David Buckingham and Vebjørg Tingstad27 Youth and generations in consumption Terhi-Anna Wilska28 Aging and consumption Carol Kelleher and Lisa PeñalozaPART VIContested consumption: Introduction 29 Sustainable consumption and changing practices Matt Watson30 Structural conditions for and against sustainable ways of consuming Bas van Vliet and Gert Spaargaren31 Retail sector facing the challenge of sustainable consumption Mikael Klintman32 Sexual embodiment and consumption Sue Scott33 Taste and embodied practice Melissa L. Caldwell34 Health, bodies and active leisure Roberta SassatelliPART VIICulture, media and consumption: Introduction 35 Consumption of culture and lifestyles Tally Katz-Gerro36 Consumption of leisure Jennifer Smith Maguire37 Fashion in consumer culture Laurie A. Meamber, Annamma Joy and Alladi Venkatesh38 Luxury consumption and luxury brands: Past, present, and futureAnnamma Joy, Russell Belk and Rishi Bhardwaj39 Social media consumer as digital avatar Alladi Venkatesh and Duygu Akdevelioglu40 Digital consumption Minna RuckensteinIndex