1st Edition
Disruptions and Consumer Resilience
Introduction: Consumer resilience in an era of disruptions
A.R. Shaheen Hosany, Girish Prayag and Shona Bettany
1. Stories of resilience – rebuilding consumer identity after poverty
Julius Stephan, Kathy Hamilton and Kim Bräuer
2. Disrupted object affordances and (un)reflexive disposal
Hélène Cherrier and Meltem Ture
3. Conceptualising consumer resilience in an age of governmental responsibilisation
Ross Gordon, Nadina Luca, Nadia Zainuddin, Ariadne Kapetanaki and Theresa Harada
4. Forced to move, forced to change: family identity and role redefinition in forced migration
Roua Alhanouti
5. How low-income consumers cope with recurrent disruptions in basic services?
Sohail Kamran, Outi Uusitalo and Saleem Ur Rahman
6. Religiosity, divine control and consumer resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic
Anthony Grimes, Stuart Roper and Daniel P. Hampson
7. Five decades of disruption in UK Higher Education- reflections from the Business School
Chris Hackley
8. Foreshadowing consumer resilience: the mainstreaming of consumer prepping
Ben Kerrane
Biography
A. R. Shaheen Hosany is Associate Professor of Marketing, Hult International Business school, UK. Her interdisciplinary research on scarcity and sustainability, draws on marketing, psychology, and behavioural economics, addressing impact-driven topics. By integrating multiple sustainable development goals, her award-winning work tackles pressing societal challenges with benefits for communities and practitioners.
Girish Prayag is Professor of Marketing, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. His research focuses on the nexus of services and resilience, with a particular emphasis on organizational resilience. He has published in leading tourism and marketing journals and is currently the Editor of Method and Practice for the journal Current Issues in Tourism.
Shona Bettany is Professor of Marketing, University of Huddersfield, UK. She is a consumer ethnographer, focusing on consumer culture in all its guises but more specifically on material-semiotic approaches to consumption. These approaches have illuminated such topics as gender and sexuality, consumer resilience, contemporary family consumption, and animal-human relations.
