Consumer activism, promotional culture and resistance: An interview with Dr Eleftheria Lekakis

In this post, REFRAME co-managing editor Dr Tanya Kant interviews Re.Framing Activism editor Dr Eleftheria Lekakis on her new monograph: Consumer Activism, Promotional Culture and Resistance. Dr Lekakis’s book takes as its premise that consumption and resistance are entwined. From buying fair-trade, to celebrity advocates for social causes, to subvertising and anti-consumerist grassroots movements, consumer…

Media Research Coming Soon

In the coming weeks we will be posting contributions from academic researchers (at all stages of their career) working on international mediated forms of activism including local, queer, grassroots, global and NGO led.