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This paper examines the ways in which market exchanges in the world of antique dealing offer dealers resources for the creation and expression of identity. As such, the paper takes a specific view of identity as discursively produced through interaction. Analysis of interviews with 16 UK antique dealers found that they typically drew on discourses of taste and aesthetics, and of morality and care, to manage their identities. In doing so they mobilized differing (and most often oppositional) constructions of customers, other dealers, antique markets and antique objects. The paper therefore has two key aims: to explore the antiques world as a marketplace institution within which particular sets of discourses circulate, and to examine the intersection of these discourses in dealers' constructions of self, others and 'world'. In closing, the paper argues for a fuller application and conceptualization of 'discourse' within marketing and consumer research. The author suggests that the hitherto underused concept of 'marketplace institutions' might help to understand how discourses and identities are thoroughly embedded in the marketplace.

Stories we tell ourselves -- Research methods -- Public stories of Zambia's mining history -- Private stories of Zambia's mining history -- "The spirits are not happy" : how Zambians knew things were not well -- "Jealousy is there " : accounting for disparity, ensuring success -- "We are not slaves" : the pain and power of Zambian identity -- "They are always suspecting us" : expatriate experiences of the copperbelt

Children's literature has a generic narrative structure in which child protagonists develop their subjectivity and maturity. When this generic tradition meets new representational agendas for social justice and inclusivity in stories that respond to real-world issues like mental disability and mental illness, however, such child agency comes at a politically charged price. Sarah Weeks's So B. It (2005), Martine Leavitt's Heck Superhero (2004), and Gwyneth Rees's My Mum's from Planet Pluto (2004) all narrativize situations in which children are required to cope with the intellectual and rational absenteeism of mothers with either a mental disability or mental illness. In each case, disadvantage is heightened, given that these women are written into a world in which patriarchy still dominates conceptions, and (in many respects) treatments, of mental illness as part of the longer intellectual tradition stemming from psychoanalytic theory. Using an admixture of disability and gender politics, this article argues that mental disability and illness are maternalized within these novels for children, and that these novels reinforce, rather than redress, normative, medicalized, and patriarchal constructions of mental illness or disability as a flaw or a lack .

ABSTRACTIn this paper, rather than approaching disorder as a problem, we see it as being pregnant with ambiguity that can potentially be a resource for new thinking and new 'ordering' work. We outline ways in which, within the domain of consumer behaviour, we can come to understand just how dirt, which is usually conceived as something destructive, can be productive. We focus on disorder, because in disordering things and in disorder, ambiguity becomes particularly visible, as a problem that is either confronted by mobilising an existing order or exploited to produce new ordering work. In this spirit, we explore ways in which disorder might be seen as suspended order, as destruction and as a state prior to order. In closing, we apply this thinking to the interpretive consumer research academy. We observe that through current reorderings and disorderings actioned in part through practice theory and actor network theoretical approaches, we are starting to glimpse the possibility of radicalising our research agenda once more. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Introduction: how has marketing changed? -- Postmodern marketing and beyond -- Building brand cultures -- Gender, feminism and consumer behaviour -- Psychoanalysis in marketing theory and practice -- The ethics of marketing management -- Ethical consumers and the moralised brandscape -- Politicising consumption - consumerising politics -- Marketing spaces and places -- The globalised marketplace

Preface -- Introduction: the practice of the meal / David Marshall, Benedetta Cappellini and Elizabeth Parsons -- Acquisition -- Authentic food and the double nature of branding / Søren Askegaard, Dorthe Brogård Kristensen and Sofia Ulver-Sneistrup -- The supermarket revisited : families shopping food / Malene Gram -- Working your way down : re-balancing Bourdieu's capitals in times of need / Benedetta Cappellini, Alessandra Marilli and Elizabeth Parsons -- The multi-cultural food market : grocery stores approaching foreign-born consumers in Sweden / Karin M. Ekström -- Appropriation -- Appropriation / Alice Julier -- Appropriating bimby on the internet : perspectives on technology mediated meals by a virtual brand community / Monica Truninger -- The digital virtual dimension of the meal / Janice Denegri-Knott and Rebecca Jenkins -- Fraught contexts and mediated culinary practices : ontological practices and politics / Paul Hewer Part III: Appreciation -- Consuming the family and the meal : representations of the family meal in women's magazines over 60 years / David Marshall, Teresa Davis, Margaret Hogg, Tanja Schneider and Alan Petersen -- From harmony to disruption and inability : on the embodiment of mothering and its consumption / Susanna Molander -- The intersection of family dinners and high school schedules in urban China / Ann Veeck, Hongyan Yu, and Fang (Grace) Yu -- Meal deviations : children's food socialisation and the practice of snacking / David Marshall -- Disposal -- The milk in the sink : waste, date labeling and food disposal / Carl Yngfalk -- The quest for the empty fridge : examining consumers' mindful food disposition / Elina Närvänen, Nina Mesiranta, and Annilotta Hukkanen -- "Don't waste the waste" : dumpster dinners among garbage gourmands / Marie Mourad and Alex Barnard -- Shit happens : excrement as fear of waste, and waste of fear / Robin Canniford and Alan Bradshaw -- Concluding remarks / Benedetta Cappellini, David Marshall and Elizabeth Parsons

AbstractThis paper explores how feminist social movements are organized and re‐generated across and through different media, both online and offline, using the example of zines. We critically examine the emergence and growth of an intersectional feminist zine community through a 6‐year in‐depth qualitative netnographic and ethnographic study. Theoretically, we build on work concerning feminist digital information and archival infrastructures, bringing it together with work on feminist digital activism. We make three key contributions: first to theorize zines and their communities as infrastructures, which cut across the social, digital, and material. Second in understanding the political potential of engagements in zine infrastructures in which the individual and collective are entangled, and third in revealing how the current generation of young feminists move across and work at the interfaces of formats to benefit from their synergistic, but also their agonistic, relations to form new affective solidarities.

AbstractIn this article, we analyze the foodwork of mothers when feeding their families on low and reduced incomes. By exploring their accounts of food shopping and household budgeting, we argue that foodwork is intrinsically linked to other areas of social life and dominant values associated with "good mothering." Through a careful consideration of the contexts and relations in which foodwork is valued, embedded, and made meaningful, we draw two key conclusions. First, we find that mothers' foodwork is oriented towards avoiding devaluation and maintaining a level of respectability as opposed to accumulating cultural capital. Second, we introduce the concept of foodcare arguing that it potentially offers low income mothers an alternative to the logic of capital for their demonstration of self‐worth.