ABSTRACT

The Routledge Companion to Critical Marketing brings together the latest research in Critical Marketing Studies in one authoritative and convenient volume. The world’s leading scholars and rising stars collaborate here to provide a survey of this lively subdiscipline. In doing so they demonstrate how a critical approach yields an enriched understanding of marketing theory and practice, its role in society, and its relationship with consumers themselves.

It is the first attempt to capture the state of Critical Marketing research in many years. As such, this seminal work is unmissable for scholars and students of marketing and consumer research as well as those exploring sociology, media studies, anthropology and consumption scholarship more generally.

part I|117 pages

Exploring the terrain of Critical Marketing Studies

part II|132 pages

Critical Marketing

chapter 10|13 pages

The cultural turn in lifestyle research

Overview and reflections

chapter 13|18 pages

Service-Dominant logic

The evolution of a universal marketing rhetoric

chapter 16|14 pages

Religious critiques of the market

part III|116 pages

Rethinking consumers and markets

chapter 22|17 pages

Consumer vulnerability

Critical insights from stories, action research and visual culture

chapter 23|18 pages

The embodied consumer

part IV|99 pages

Critical marketing

chapter 25|15 pages

Gender, marketing, and emotions

A critical, feminist exploration of the ideological helix that defines our working worlds

chapter 28|14 pages

Political economy approaches to transnational commodity markets

An application to the case of the global palm oil market