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Showing result 6 - 10 of 12 swedish dissertations containing the words consumer culture theory.

2. 6. Green Retailing : A socio-material analysis

   Author : Christian Fuentes; Institutionen för tjänstevetenskap; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; consumer culture; consumption; retail; Green marketing; nature; socio-material practice; ethnographic method; Business and IT;

   Abstract : The marketing and consumption of green products has grown significantly in recent years. As mediators between producers and consumers, retailing sites play an important role for the distribution of green products. It is through stores and other retail sites that green products are marketed and made available to consumers. READ MORE

4. 7. Losing the plot : architecture and narrativity in fin-de siècle media cultures

   Author : Malin Zimm; Katja Grillner; Jennifer Blommer; KTH; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Architecture; architecture theory; narrativity; virtuality; virtual reality; spatiality; plot; architectural representation; fiction; plotless; 19th century media culture; Architecture; Arkitektur;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates the role of the term plot in mediating relations between architecture and narrativity. Examining organisational strategies in the creation of real and virtual spaces, it identifies literary works by novelists who have resisted, or subverted, plot conventions in fiction (Joris-Karl Huysmans, Edmond de Goncourt, Xavier de Maistre and Neal Stephenson), and introduces architectural spaces such as Thomas Edison’s film-studio Black Maria, and the plotless productions of early cinematography, to juxtapose concepts of plot and spatiality in a study of the production and consumption of pre-digital virtual spaces. READ MORE

5. 8. Consequences of consumer-resource stoichiometric imbalance in planktonic food webs

   Author : Junwen Guo; Mehdi Cherif; Tanguy Daufresne; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; environmental science; miljövetenskap;

   Abstract : Resource imbalance between consumers and their resources can come from inadequate resource quantity or quality. The ecological stoichiometry theory focuses on understanding the consequences of imbalance in elemental composition.  In this thesis, I have used both resource quality (e.g. READ MORE

6. 9. “Bridal Couples" : On Hybridity in Conceptual Chinese Photography 1995–2009

   Author : Eva Aggeklint; Marja Kaikkonen; Julia F. Andrews; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; China; Reform Period China; Contemporary Chinese Art; Contemporary Chinese Photography; Conceptual Photography; Bridal Photography; Bridal Couples; Art Market; Auction Houses; Third Space; Hybrid; Hybridity; Hybridisation; Interpretation; Asian Languages and Cultures; Asiens språk och kulturer;

   Abstract : Chinese art of the 1990s responded to the many changes in the environment and thereby to changes in personal lives. Many Chinese artists of the time were therefore concerned with their selves and their works reveal explorations of personal identity. READ MORE

7. 10. Consumption and Practice : Unfolding Consumptive Moments and the Entanglement with Productive Aspects

   Author : Benjamin Hartmann; Jacob Östberg; Dannie Kjeldgaard; Jönköping University; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates consumption through a practice-theoretical perspective. Practices are routinized sets of human activity involving doings, meanings, and objects. Previous work has suggested conceiving of consumption as moments in practices. READ MORE