Marketization by Roy Chaudhuri, Himadri; Belk, Russell W.;

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This book critically examines marketization: a phenomenon by which market processes are institutionalized and marketing increasingly pervades all areas of our everyday life. It presents a number of theories, frameworks and empirical studies highlighting how the phenomenon of marketization affects the 21st century consumer. The book also contests the traditional understanding of markets, offering a more comprehensive treatment of marketization and a fresh perspective on the dynamics of markets and the institutions that control everyday consumption practices.

This book is an ideal resource for academics, reflective practitioners and policy-makers interested in formulating appropriate change strategies in the face of the globalization that affects emerging markets so profoundly.

This well-crafted research book is a valuable addition to the sparse literature on theories of marketization. The authors refigure the existing theories more broadly and present compelling evidence and insights into market phenomenon such as marginality, alternative market forms and consumer identity.

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Table of Contents:

Marketization: Exploring the History and Geographic Expansion of Markets and Market Ideology.- Commodification as an Aspect of Marketization.- The Nature of Modern Marketization.- Stories from communist and capitalist Poland: Polish people on life values under marketization.- Temple Complexes as Neoliberal Marketscapes of Religion.- The Missing Market Orientation in the Market-Based Livelihood Programmes: A Case of Right Diagnosis but Wrong Pills.- Fair and ethical engagement of marginalized marketplace participants: The integrative justice model and Paryavaran Mitra, an organization working with ragpicking women in India.- Alternative to Marketization of Food and Its Implications for Quality of Life: Evidence from an Emerging Economy.- Chinese Marketization and Identity Project.- Commodification of Pilgrimage: The Pakistani Hajj Industry & Its Subalternalization Effects.- Celebrating Special Days in a Muslim Postmodern Society: Exploring Gift-Giving Tendencies of the New Middle Class Consumers in Turkey.- Epidemic Growth of Clinical Depression: Is Marketization a Cause or Consequence?.- Stigmatized Market in a Poor Economy.- A Sustainable Development View of Chile.- Marketization of International Volunteering: A critical postcolonial visual analysis of the Volunteer Tourism marketplace.- Selling Hope: Marketing and Religion in Freedom.- Exploring the Consumption Psychology of Indian Consumers: Tales of Materialism and Sustainability Consumption Experiences in a Marketized India.- A Macro marketing view of Location Based Services: a UK perspective.- Towards the Meaning Creation of Ethnonationalist Consumerism: Market, Nation and Ethnicity.

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