The consumer in society : festschrift to Eivind Stø

The Consumer in Society addresses several important subthemes of consumption, such as liberalization in the 1980s, questions of sustainability and sustainable consumption, the integration of immigrants through (food) consumption, and aspects of consumer poverty. The book also gives an account of the recent history of consumer studies together with discussions of the differences between consumer studies in its current form and approaches such as behavioural economics and the theory of planned behaviour. Eivind Stø’s professional career in consumer studies is described, including his recent contribution to the theory and practice of participatory democracy. Finally, he was deceived into contributing to his own Festschrift, believing that he was collaborating on a journal article. Eivind Stø Eivind Stø (d.o.b. 1945) obtained his Mag. Art. in political science from the University of Oslo in 1972. He worked as an assistant at the Norwegian Election Programme from 1972 to 1976, and from 1976 to 1988 he worked for the Norwegian Fund for Market and Distribution Research. From 1989 he has been a researcher at SIFO. He was Head of Research from 1990 and Director of Research and Director of Research from 1998. His research interests are outlined in two of the chapters of this book. CONTRIBUTORS to his festschrift Marthe H. Austgulen, Anita Borch, Elling Borgeraas, Arne Dulsrud, Sandrine Fournis, Sabine Francois, Jukka Gronow, Sigmund Grønmo, Bente Halkier, Nina Heidenstrøm, Lotte Holm, Eivind Jacobsen, François Jégou, Margit Keller, Unni Kjærnes, Ingun Grimstad Klepp, Kirsi Laitala, Randi Lavik, Dario Padovan, Catherine Rousseau, Frieder Rubik, Mari Rysst, Gerd Scholl, Pål Strandbakken, Pekka Sulkunen, Iselin Theien, Harald Throne-Holst, Triin Vihalemm, Gunnar Vittersø and Alan Warde.