scholarly journals The Inner Louis Vuitton Circle: Arts-Based Research into Russian Luxury

Society ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svenja Tams ◽  
Brigitte Biehl ◽  
Nikolay Eliseev
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Conspicuous Consumption ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Luxury Brands ◽  
Luxury Consumption ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Intercultural Studies ◽  
Social Distinction ◽  
The Social ◽  
Artistic Inquiry

AbstractStudying luxury and conspicuous consumption in international settings presents unique challenges. Many aspects of luxury and conspicuous consumption cannot easily be put into words because they involve desires, aesthetics, and emotions, as well as taken-for-granted assumptions about social distinction and inequality. Drawing on Nicolai Eliseev’s artistic inquiry into luxury consumption in Russia, this article proposes arts-based inquiry as a suitable method for examining embodied and aesthetic knowing about luxury and conspicuous consumption, in particular in intercultural settings. The article illustrates these ideas through a series of sketches and a final artwork, by which Eliseev inquired into his experiences and tacit knowledge. The artwork incorporates a cut-up Louis Vuitton bag and references to luxury brands such as Cartier, Vertu, and Dom Perignon. The artistic form expresses the dividing effects and emotions of luxury consumption in Russian social and economic life. The article contributes to an understanding of aesthetic creation as both a method of inquiry and also a practice of resistance and innovation in relation to fashion discourses. Thus, it illustrates the potential of arts-based research methods in intercultural studies of luxury, and the social sciences more broadly.

When others show off my brand: self-brand association and conspicuous consumption

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 1214-1225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Li ◽  
Shuojia Guo ◽  
Jonathan Z. Zhang ◽  
Liben Sun
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Brand Management ◽  
Conspicuous Consumption ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Luxury Brands ◽  
Luxury Consumption ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Brand Association ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of conspicuous consumption on brand attitudes in the context of luxury brands market in China. Design/methodology/approach Two studies are conducted to test three hypotheses. In Study 1, the authors examine the mediating effect of self-brand association (SBA) on the relationship between social class and conspicuous consumption (H1 and H2); In Study 2, the authors examine the effect of observing others’ conspicuous consumption on the observer’s SBA (H3). Findings Results show that SBA negatively mediates the relationship between social class and conspicuous consumption. Moreover, the negative effect on SBA of observing conspicuous brand usage varies by social class. Research limitations/implications The current study focused on the principal linkage between social class, SBA and conspicuousness, and future research could examine the influence of different personality traits on luxury consumption or the existence of sub-types or variants of conspicuous brand users. Originality/value The present study has important implications for luxury brand management, and provides rich insights to consumers’ motivations that lead to distinctive luxury consumption behaviors.

scholarly journals New dynamics of social status and distinction

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giana M. Eckhardt ◽  
Fleura Bardhi
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Conspicuous Consumption ◽  
Conceptual Space ◽  
Status Signaling ◽  
The Social ◽  
Urban Consumption

We explore emerging dynamics of social status and distinction in liquid consumption. The new logic of distinction is having the flexibility to embrace and adopt new identity positions, projects, and possibilities and the ability to attract attention. The importance of flexibility and attention as resources emerged from the social sciences literature in the domains of digital, access based, and urban consumption as being the most important for achieving distinction in the contemporary marketplace. We then conceptually reexamine conspicuous consumption and taste and show that status signaling now relies upon inconspicuousness, non-ownership including experiences, and authenticity based on knowledge and craftsmanship, all of which are difficult to emulate. Our contribution lies in integrating disparate literature on social status and consumption within one conceptual space. We also build upon the concept of liquid consumption by outlining exactly how liquidity affects status and distinction, an area which has not been explored to date.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-36
Author(s):  
Craig Berry
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Population Ageing ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Private Pensions ◽  
Generational Change ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Uk

The UK pensions system is in danger. How did we get here? Moreover, what exactly is it that is endangering UK pensions? This introductory chapter explores the main narratives of pensions crisis in elite and public discourse in the UK—centred around population ageing and increased longevity—and argues instead that pensions imperilment is a product of the UK’s dysfunctional political economy. Traditional private pensions practice has become increasingly incompatible with the financialization of economic life. The chapter introduces the book’s key analytical concepts, such as financialization and statecraft, and explore how the social sciences, particularly political economy scholarship, tend to treat generational change and inter-generational relations. Understanding private pensions provision as a set of temporal management mechanisms, organized cross-generationally, is integral to understanding the source of pensions imperilment—and how it can be overcome.

Tracing the Relationship between Inequality, Crime and Punishment

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Crime And Punishment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Relationship

The question of inequality has moved decisively to the top of the contemporary intellectual agenda. Going beyond Thomas Piketty’s focus on wealth, increasing inequalities of various kinds, and their impact on social, political and economic life, now present themselves among the most urgent issues facing scholars in the humanities and the social sciences. Key among these is the relationship between inequality, crime and punishment. The propositions that social inequality shapes crime and punishment, and that crime and punishment themselves cause or exacerbate inequality, are conventional wisdom. Yet, paradoxically, they are also controversial. In this volume, historians, criminologists, lawyers, sociologists and political scientists come together to try to solve this paradox by unpacking these relationships in different contexts. The causal mechanisms underlying these correlations call for investigation by means of a sustained programme of research bringing different disciplines to bear on the problem. This volume develops an interdisciplinary approach which builds on but goes beyond recent comparative and historical research on the institutional, cultural and political-economic factors shaping crime and punishment so as better to understand whether, and if so how and why, social and economic inequality influences levels and types of crime and punishment, and conversely whether crime and punishment shape inequalities.

scholarly journals Social Practice as Arts-based Methodology: Exploring Participation, Multiplicity, and Collective Action as Elements of Inquiry

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-70
Author(s):  
Lynn Sanders-Bustle
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Socially Engaged Art ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Finding

Claims that the arts are a kind of research is nothing new, finding relevance for scholars in the social sciences and the arts (Barone & Eisner, 2011; Cahnmann Taylor & Siegesmund, 2018; Leavy, 2019, 2009; Sullivan, 2005). Given that art is continuously being reimagined, it follows that arts-based research takes into account contemporary artistic processes and materials and the theories, aesthetic philosophies and contexts that shape them. In this paper, this author considers socially engaged art in the context of arts-based research and raises the question, what can be learned from social practice as an arts-based methodology?  The work of three socially engaged artists are referenced to demonstrate how distinct qualities associated with social practice, such as shared participation, multiplicity, and collective action offer new considerations for arts-based research that aims to bring about social change.

scholarly journals Law and the Political Economy of the World

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID KENNEDY
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
International Law ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dynamic Inequality ◽  
Private Power ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Political Economic

AbstractThe interpenetration of global political and economic life has placed questions of ‘political economy’ on the scholarly agenda across the social sciences. The author argues that international law could contribute to understanding and transforming centre–periphery patterns of dynamic inequality in global political economic life. The core elements of both economic and political activity – capital, labour, credit, and money, as well as public or private power and right – are legal institutions. Law is the link binding centres and peripheries to one another and structuring their interaction. It is also the vernacular through which power and wealth justify their exercise and shroud their authority. The author proposes rethinking international law as a terrain for political and economic struggle rather than as a normative or technical substitute for political choice, itself indifferent to natural flows of economic activity.

Austerity to materialism and brand consciousness: luxury consumption in India

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikita Sharda ◽  
Anil Kumar Bhat
Keyword(s):  
Purchase Intention ◽  
Brand Names ◽  
Luxury Brands ◽  
Luxury Consumption ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
Indian Consumers ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Self Administered Questionnaire

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the role of materialism and brand consciousness in determining the luxury consumption among the young Indian consumers. Design/methodology/approach In order to measure materialism, brand consciousness, attitude toward luxury brands and purchase intention, pre-established scale items were used to design the self-administered questionnaire. A valid sample of 342 respondents was collected through mall intercepts, in-store intercepts, luxury brands exhibitions and festivals and international airports. The relationship was tested using regression analysis. Findings The findings support that the materialism and brand consciousness are positively related to the luxury consumption in India and play an important role in predicting the behavior of the young luxury buyers. The Indian youth is buying expensive luxury brands as symbols of status success and wealth in order to fulfill their materialistic goals. The desire to own and possess the well-known and expensive brand names demonstrates the importance the consumers attach to the social and symbolic value of the luxury brands. Practical implications The study reveals that the young Indian luxury buyers choose to buy brands that are most advertised. Creative advertisements enhancing luxury brands’ symbolic and social value can be effective. The study has implications for the international luxury brands, as they are expensive, well known and famous among the global consumers. Originality/value The key contribution of the study is the establishment of materialism and brand consciousness as important antecedents in the development of attitude toward luxury brands among the young Indian consumers.

Grave Goods

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-226
Author(s):  
John F. Sherry
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Death Rituals ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Marketing Literature ◽  
Research Challenges ◽  
The Social ◽  
Baseline Flow ◽  
Ontological Turn

Arts-based research challenges inquirers into marketplace behavior to address the ontological turn in the social sciences by representing their understanding of consumption in an aesthetic key. Unfolding from the premise that experience is an assemblage, this short story examines the phenomenon of vibrant matter through an exploration of entangled objects. The account is set in the context of death rituals in a consumer culture and scrutinizes the process of disposition long neglected in the marketing literature. The transubstantiation of assemblage components is captured in kairos-moment ruptures of chronos-baseline flow.

scholarly journals A Canadian Selvage: Weaving Artistic Research into Resource Politics

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 180-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Beer ◽  
Caitlin Chaisson
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Resource Extraction ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Oil Futures ◽  
Oil Pipeline ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Resource Politics ◽  
Trading Routes

This exploratory article addresses our experiences as artist-researchers engaged with “Trading Routes: Grease Trails, Oil Futures,” a research-creation project supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. “Trading Routes” focuses on the intersecting geographies of Indigenous fish grease trails and the proposed Alberta-British Columbia oil pipeline. These converging routes are shedding light on the present entanglement between Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultural heritage, ecological perspectives, and resource extraction. Through artistic scholarship, material production, historical and cultural understanding, we seek to better account for the ways in which an environmental social justice perspective can be crafted into arts-based research. We write from a point of reflection, where we assess, evaluate, disentangle, and unclad some of the learning that has come to us through the research-creation and presentation of contemporary weaving. We suggest that arts-based research can offer a methodology of learning and thinking rooted in a perspective of informing, informality, or thinking about artworks in form, an extension of a/r/tographic praxis that is grounded in an analysis of materiality and aesthetics.

scholarly journals Where is the nation-state heading to?

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miroslav Mladenovich ◽  
M. Miloshevich
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
The State ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Sharp Reduction ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
The Social

Although the state still acts as the main unit of historical, political, cultural, and economic life, many powerful factors force it to gradually abandon some of its traditional features and give way to larger transnational institutions. This trend will certainly continue to develop in the future. However, it would be wrong to conclude that this process is a one-sided and unambiguous. In fact, sovereignty in many segments will decrease and disappear, but there are elements in which it will persist and even grow. It is therefore unjustifiable to rush to proclaim the national state's death. It will continue to be one of the leading actors, because, as some researchers point out, a sharp reduction in sovereignty and violation of the traditional functions of the state can easily lead to chaos. This study aims to analyze and to describe the position and prospects of the nation state in the context of globalization. In a significantly changed socio-political situation, the question of the fate of the main political life subject within each society cannot be omitted. Considering that the state is an extremely complex and changeable phenomenon, the methodological apparatus for its examination should be very broad. In this study, which fits into the political philosophy field of the social sciences, the systemic method was used as the main one (inspection of various connections and relations within the state and its relationship with the external environment), as well as comparative method (socio-economic, political, social, historical, and other situations in various regions of the world). To a certain extent, political and legal analyses were carried out when considering the position of a citizen-individual in a changing world. This is of utmost significance, as the acceptance (voluntarily or compulsorily) of someone else's experience and institutions requires a change in both political and general culture.

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