Consumer Vulnerability Conditions, contexts and characteristics [Hardcover]

Consumer vulnerability is of growing importance as a research topic for those exploring wellbeing. This book provides space to critically engage with the conditions, contexts and characteristics of consumer vulnerability, which affect how people experience and respond to the marketplace and vice versa.

Focussing on substantive, ethical, social and methodological issues, this book brings together key researchers in the field and practitioners who work with vulnerability on a daily basis. Organised into 4 sections, it considers consumer vulnerability and key life stages, health and wellbeing, poverty, and exclusion. Methodologically the chapters draw on qualitative research, employing a variety of methods from interview, to the use of poetry, film and other cultural artefacts.

This book will be of interest to marketing and consumer research scholars and students and also to researchers in other disciplines including sociology, public policy and anthropology, and practitioners, policy makers and charitable organisations working with vulnerable groups.

Part I: Mapping the Domain of Consumer Vulnerability1. Introduction (Kathy Hamilton, Susan Dunnett and Maria Piacentini) 2.On Consumer Vulnerability: Foundations, phenomena, and future investigations (Stacey Menzel Baker, Monica LaBarge and Courtney Nations Baker) 3. An Inclusive Approach to Consumer Vulnerability: Exploring the contributions of intersectionality (Bige Saatcioglu and Canan Corus) 4.Justice in Injustice, Power in Vulnerability: The dialogic potential of The Uncondemned(Catherine Coleman) 5.Asking for Trouble: Some reflections on researching bereaved consumers (Darach Turley) 6.Consumer Vulnerability is Market Failure (Jonathan Stearn) Part II: Consumer Vulnerabilitl;