The Fire of Desire: A Multisited Inquiry into Consumer Passion

Belk, Russell W.; Ger, Gülız; Askegaard, Søren

doi:10.1086/378613

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“…In an effort to meet approval needs sensitive subjects often result in socially desirable answers (Belk et al, 2003;Eckhardt et al, 2010). Greater validity is achieved through the use of indirect questioning than is possible through direct methods (Boddy, 2005;Mulvey & Kavalam, 2010).…”

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Ethics and influences in tourist perceptions of climate change

Hindley

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2014

Current Issues in Tourism

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Ethical decisions to visit disappearing destinations are self-serving and influences feed into self-interest. Data was collected from a sample of pre, during and post visit tourists to Venice and Svalbard, using expressive techniques and scenarios using the HuntVitell Model to understand ethical decisions, and the constructive technique and collage to understand influences. The results show that travel decisions are driven by individual selfishness, and any threat to freedom (i.e. the right to travel) is underplayed. The preferred scenario for long term benefit for planet and people is via short-term economic and social negative impacts on the destination's locals, rather than the tourists' own experience. Respondents believe that they are blameless for their purchasing habits as they lack perceived behavioural control, and instead corporations ought to be providing sustainable products as the norm and not sell products that harm.In the scenarios where respondents express concern for the locals in a disappearing destination (i.e. if we don't visit, they will not benefit from our expenditure) could be driven by individual selfishness to visit, rather than an altruistic act to provide support.Theoretical and policy implications are discussed.

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Ethics and influences in tourist perceptions of climate change

Hindley

Font

2014

Current Issues in Tourism

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“…Cindi Katz identifies economies of desire as part of the spatial and situational transformations that occur as part of economic restructuring through international development (Katz 2004). Desire has been used as a regular feature of advertising and consumptive seduction, often manipulating racial, gender, and class stereotypes to solicit consumers to purchase products (Hennion et al 1989(Hennion et al , 1993Belk et al 2003;Hooks 2006;Oza 2006;Parameswaran and Cardoza 2009). Specific attention to economies of desire and the seductions attached to them offer a method for investigating the a/effective mechanisms of seduction embedded within donation structures and situated through online shopping platforms.…”

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Crisis and Consumption: ‘Saving’ the Poor and the Seductions of Capitalism

Fluri

2017

Humanities

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This article examines the crisis of capitalist seduction through the lens of online shopping platforms that raise funds for international assistance organizations and development celebrity advertising. Consumer-based giving has altered the commodity fetish into cliché, subsequently masking the capitalist produced crisis of endemic poverty and global inequality. Celebrity supported consumer-based giving and product advertising are used to illustrate the seductions of capitalism. This article argues that international assistance organizations are embedded in the substance and lifeblood of capitalisms' dependence on inequality and poverty to generate profits/wealth. Consumer driven assistance remains a pervasive crisis hidden by seductive shopping platforms camouflaged as compassion.

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“…The commodities that are not yet acquired are particularly considered as embodying certain meanings or happiness, and their absence creates a powerful urge to attain them (Belk, Ger and Askegaard 2003). In fact, one experiences discomfort if the absence is prolonged.…”

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How Do Soap Operas Affect the Poor? Experiences of Turkish Women

Özgün¹,

Yurdakul²,

Atik³

2017

MGDR

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The cultural aspects of poverty remain a relatively understudied subject in marketing and media studies: both fields have been concerned mostly with reaching populations with certain level of purchasing power. This study shows the effects of mass media (specifically the soap opera viewership that constitutes "media exposure") in the low income context especially for women. Adopting a qualitative approach, also inspired by the New Audience Research in media studies, we conducted 40 in-depth interviews with Turkish women in poverty. Our findings show that identifying themselves with the fictional soap opera characters, women drive emotional fulfillment, at times finding what they lack in their everyday lives, such as love, friendship and power. On the other hand, being exposed to the affluent 'other life' has consequences on their well-being, deepening the contradiction between their current situation and what they perceive as the dominant way of living, eventually leading to dissatisfaction and hopelessness.

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The Fire of Desire: A Multisited Inquiry into Consumer Passion

Cited by 769 publications

References 50 publications

Ethics and influences in tourist perceptions of climate change

Ethics and influences in tourist perceptions of climate change

Crisis and Consumption: ‘Saving’ the Poor and the Seductions of Capitalism

How Do Soap Operas Affect the Poor? Experiences of Turkish Women

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