Introduction: The Politics of Consumption / The Consumption of Politics
Dhavan V. Shah, Douglas M. McLeod, Lewis Friedland, and Michelle Nelson

In Defense of Consumer Critique: Re-Visiting The Consumption Debates of the Twentieth Century
Juliet B. Schor

Capital, Consumption, Communication, and Citizenship: The Social Positioning of Taste and Civic Culture in the United States
Lewis Friedland, Dhavan V. Shah, Nam-Jin Lee, Mark A. Rademacher, Lucy Atkinson, and Thomas Hove

Representing Citizens and Consumers in Media and Communications Regulation
Sonia Livingstone and Peter Lunt

Consumers and the State since the Second World War
Matthew Hilton

Buying Into Downtown Revival: The Centrality of Retail to Postwar Urban Renewal in American Cities
Lizabeth Cohen

Should Consumer Citizens Escape The Market?
Eric J. Arnould

A Carnivalesque Approach to the Politics of Consumption (or) Grotesque Realism and the Analytics of the Excretory Economy
Craig J. Thompson

Why Not Share Rather Than Own?
Russell Belk

Downshifting Consumer = Upshifting Citizen? An Examination of a Local Freecycle Community
Michelle R. Nelson, Mark A. Rademacher, and Hye-Jin Paek

Mobilizing Consumers to Take Responsibility for Global Social Justice
Michele Micheletti and Dietlind Stolle

Political Brands and Consumer Citizens: The Rebranding of Tony Blair
Margaret Scammell

Logo Logic: The Ups And Downs of Branded Political Communication
W. Lance Bennett And Taso Lagos

Digital Renaissance: Young Consumer and Citizen?
Claes H. de Vreese

Political Consumerism:
How Communication and Consumption Orientations Drive “Lifestyle Politics”
Dhavan V. Shah, Douglas M. McLeod, Eunkyung Kim, Sun Young Lee, Melissa R. Gotlieb,
Shirley S. Ho, and Hilde Brevik

Citizens, Consumers, and the Good Society
Michael Schudson

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