1st Edition
Consuming Happiness Aspirational Practices in Global Perspective
1. Consuming happiness: aspirational practices in/from the margins
Mehita Iqani
2. Divine discontent: aspirations and subjective well-being at a time of social mobility and high inequality
Debra Lynne Shepherd
3. Prophets making gendered interventions: a feminist discourse analysis of gendered online miracles, advice, advertisements, and testimonies
Kudzaiishe Peter Vanyoro
4. "Your boy is a boiii": capturing the consumption of trans joy in the form of synthetic testosterone
B Camminga and Noam Lubinsky
5. Performing drag in a pandemic: affect in theory, practice and (potential) political mobilization
Niall Brennan
6. Consuming Africa: safari aesthetics in the Johannesburg beauty industry
Nicky Falkof
7. Managing sullied pleasure: dining out while black and middle class in South Africa
Thabisani Ndlovu
8. Consuming the rich white "Bitch" on The Real Housewives of Johannesburg
Alexia Smit
Biography
Mehita Iqani is South African Research Chair in Science Communication at Stellenbosch University. Her current research focusses on the links between consumer society, quality of life (happiness), and environmental and planetary sustainability. She is the author and editor of several books on media, consumer culture, luxury, waste, and the global south, the most recent of which include Garbage in Popular Culture (2021), Consumption Media and the Global South (2016), Media Studies: Critical African and Decolonial Approaches (2019), and African Luxury (2019).
