Michaela DeSoucey

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use qualitative data on the grassroots coalition movement that has spurred a market for grass-fed meat and dairy products in the United States since the early 1990s, and show that the movement's participants mobilized broad cultural codes and these codes motivated producers to enter and persist in a nascent market, shaped their choices about production and exchange technologies, enabled a collective identity, and formed the basis of the products' exchange value.

TL;DR: By developing the concept of Gastronationalism, the authors challenges conceptions of the homogenizing forces of globalism, and analyzes the ways in which food production, distribution, and con...

TL;DR: In this article, the authors offer a collaborative, reflexive analysis of their experiences conducting fieldwork on three different consumption movements centered on food production and show how their own "consumption identities" affected their data collection, analyses, and written work.

TL;DR: Lesley Andres and Johanna Wyn as mentioned in this paper examined how these two sets of adolescents, who completed their secondary schooling in the late 1980s and early 1990s, manage decisions about post-secondary education, work, and relationships in a context of increasing economic insecurity, global competition, workplace restructuring, and persistent inequalities by class and gender.

TL;DR: In this paper, a reputational approach is used to create a theory of martyrdom that synthesizes scholarship on the body politic, cultural symbols, and collective memory, focusing on the conception and reception of the martyr's corporeal body, in particular, as a source of identity and meaning.