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Christian Fuentes
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Professor at Lund University. Research on Sustainable Consumption, Alternative Food Markets, Circular Consumption, Digitalization of Consumer Culture and Retailing. Sociology of Consumption and Market studies.
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New publication out! "Recirculating products: Valuation practices and the socio-material making of second-hand products" (co-authored with Lars Hedegård) in European Journal of Marketing - Open access, please share!

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Recirculating products: valuation practices and the socio-material making of second-hand products
Purpose. This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of the recirculation of products by empirically exploring, conceptualising and explaining how second-hand goods are made in practices and pr...
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New publication out! "Recirculating products: Valuation practices and the socio-material making of second-hand products" (co-authored with Lars Hedegård) in European Journal of Marketing - Open access, please share!

www.emerald.com/ejm/article/...
Recirculating products: valuation practices and the socio-material making of second-hand products
Purpose. This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of the recirculation of products by empirically exploring, conceptualising and explaining how second-hand goods are made in practices and pr...
www.emerald.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:55 AM
New publication now out! “Digital platforms for circular shopping: slowing down and speeding up second-hand clothing consumption” With Frida Eggert and Isabelle Rahm

This paper critically examines circular fashion platforms through a practice theory lens.

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Digital platforms for circular shopping: slowing down and speeding up second-hand clothing consumption
This paper aims to empirically explore and conceptualise how circular fashion platforms enable and shape the practice of second-hand clothes shopping. Taking a shopping-as-practice approach and dra...
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September 4, 2025 at 10:28 AM
New publication is now out!! “Marketing machines at work: performing e-commerce by assembling, adjusting, and maintaining a complex market device” co-authored withPatrik Stoopendhal. Open access! Please share!

🔗 Read it here: lnkd.in/dUZ_iyX7
April 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Join Our Team! Two-year position focusing on digital platforms and sustainable consumption at Lund University. Join an interdisciplinary team working on consumption, markets, and social change. Please share or apply!
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Postdoctoral researcher in Digital Platforms and Sustainable Consumption
The Department of Service Studies invites applications for a post-doctoral researcher who will support our research on Digital Platforms and Sustainable Consumption for a limited period. The postdoc w
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February 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
On the train home from Hannover and a very interesting interdisciplinary workshop on the topic of Digital foodscapes: past, present, and future". It has been an intensive few days. Going home with a bunch of interesting papers to read, new connections and a few new ideas to work on.
February 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Reposted by Christian Fuentes
Congratulations Réka Tölg & @christianfuentes.bsky.social Care and circularity: how the enactment of care enables and shapes the circular consumption of clothing was one of ConSoc's most read papers of 2024 doi.org/10.1332/2752...
Care and circularity: how the enactment of care enables and shapes the circular consumption of clothing
In a circular system, consumers need to acquire, use, look after and part with products in ways that recirculate or reuse materials and minimise waste. Thus, although seldom made explicit, consumer ca...
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February 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Current status: Decision pending. Absolutely nerve-wracking. 😱 But I’m sure obsessively refreshing the submission portal every five minutes will totally keep me calm. Right? RIGHT?!
February 5, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Thanks for sharing our article @jcultecon.bsky.social

We explored how digital #platforms shape #eating & found they reinforce prevailing eating interests and practices in our sample. This led us to problematise #techno-optimistic promises claiming that digital platforms change eating practices 🍽️
December 5, 2024 at 2:42 PM
New paper out! "Alternativizing markets: the framing of moral commerce" by Jonas Bååth and myself is just out in Socio-Economic Review. Open access so please share!:

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Alternativizing markets: the framing of moral commerce
Abstract. How are moral markets organized? While previous research has shown that moral markets combine conventional and alternative elements, it has faile
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November 27, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Reposted by Christian Fuentes
📢 The RN05 Sociology of Consumption mid-term conference call for papers is out! 📢 Have a look and join us in charting the consumption territories in Prague! 🗺️

consumption2025.fhs.cuni.cz
November 27, 2024 at 2:45 PM