Taste, Consumption and Markets

9 Performing Disruptive Tastes

Toward an Ontology of Reflexive Consumer Agency

Craig J. Thompson

Suggested Preliminary Reading

1. Bourdieu, Pierre (1984), Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
2. Graeber, David (2011), “Consumption,” Current Anthropology, 52 (4), 489–502.
3. Thompson, Craig J., and Tuba Üstüner (2015), “Women Skating on the Edge: Marketplace Performances as Ideological Edgework,” Journal of Consumer Research, 42 (2), 266–283

Recommended Further Reading

1. Sparke, Penny (1995), As Long as It’s Pink: The Sexual Politics of Taste, London: Pandora.
2. Gronow, Jukka (1997), The Sociology of Taste, London; New York: Routledge.
3. Hennion, Antoine (2007), “Those Things that Hold Us Together: ...