Taste, Consumption and Markets

An Interdisciplinary Volume

Zeynep Arsel, Jonathan Bean, Zeynep Arsel, Jonathan Bean

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9781351795470
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

Taste is a core concept for the social sciences and an orienting notion in everyday practice. It is of equal relevance to academics and laypeople alike. Theorizations of taste are frequently multi- disciplinary, bringing an opportunity to cross-fertilize ideas and concepts. At the same time, a reader, challenged by the diverse body and dispersed nature of theories on taste, needs guidance navigating the literature and framing areas of interest. Until now, those interested in an academic perspective on the concept have had to traverse a wide range of literature. This is the first book that assembles a range of writings on taste from across disciplines to provide the reader with a sense of the emerging and expanding boundaries of this field of study.

Taste, Consumption and Markets offers a comprehensive and up-to-date review of taste, with an emphasis on how taste shapes boundaries, subcultures, and global culture, complemented by an introduction that provides a scaffold for the reader and a concluding section that reflects on the past, present, and future of research on taste. It shows the latest state of knowledge on the topic and will be of interest to students at an advanced level, academics, and reflective practitioners. It addresses the topics with regard to the sociology of taste and consumption and will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of consumer studies, consumption ethics, sociological perspectives on consumption, and cultural studies.

Index

Note: page numbers in italics indicate figures and those in bold indicate tables.

Accounting for Taste 215–31; conceptual clarity 216–18; culture as fragments 220–3; inter-subjective agreement on quality 219–20; judgments of judgment 223–6; “Moral” taste 226–7; taste as habit 220–3; The Tastes of the Socially Subordinate 229–30; What is Bad Taste? 227–9

Achatz, Grant 31, 34, 36, 38

actor-network theory 3, 58

Adorno, Theodor 115, 116–17, 125; see also endless exhibition

Adrià, Ferran 37–8

advertising 4, 53, 116, 118–20, 126, 141, 143, 217, 222; advertising campaigns 222

Advertising Age 120

aesthetic judgment 181

affect 130–47

affective interventions 130

agency 121, 123, 126, 133, 153–68

Ahn, Y-Y. 221

Alexander, Jeffery 209

Alloway, Lawrence 123

Altes Museum 20

Amerine, Maynard 219

Anand, Gaggan 31, 32–3, 38

Anderson, Elijah 208

Ann Demeulemeester 97

Anti-Icon museum buildings 15, 19, 18–20

antinomies of domination 160–3

Apartment Therapy 219

Apartment Therapy (blog) 154

ArchDaily 13

architecture: Art & Architecture 118; Chinese International Practical Exhibition of Architecture (CIPEA) 16; iconic architecture 14–15, 15; starchitecture 13–14, 18–19;

Arendt, Hannah 125

Aristotle 193

Armisen, Fred 46

Armstrong, Lisa 78

Arnolfini, Giovanni di Nicolao 117

Arnolfini Portrait, The (painting) 117

Arnould, Eric J. 84

Arsel, Zeynep 14, 27, 30–1, 66, 84–5, 92, 96, 97, 154, 177, 189, 219

art 11–13, 20–1, 180, 185, 189–90, 229–30

Art & Architecture 118

Art Institute, Chicago 13

artisanal 53, 55, 57, 58, 99, 106–8

Asher, William 135

Askegaard, Sören 37

Aspen Art Museum, Aspen...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: On Thinking About Taste
• I Regularities, Patterns, and Regimes
• II Change, Flow, and Trajectories
• III Hegemony, Disruption, and Agency
• IV Past, Present, and Future
• Index