Professor Benedetta Cappellini's Outputs (2)

Intensive mothering in hard times: Foucauldian ethical self-formation and cruel optimism (2019)
Journal Article
Cappellini, B., Harman, V., Marilli, A., & Parsons, E. (2019). Intensive mothering in hard times: Foucauldian ethical self-formation and cruel optimism. Journal of Consumer Culture, 19(4), 469-492. https://doi.org/10.1177/1469540519872067

Discourses of intensive mothering now seem to dominate European and American parenting cultures. This is a problem for those mothers who do not currently possess the resources to match up. In a study of Italian and British mothers who are experiencin... Read More about Intensive mothering in hard times: Foucauldian ethical self-formation and cruel optimism.

From West to East: British Sojourners’ acculturation in China (2019)
Journal Article
Yu, Q., Yen, D., Cappellini, B., & Wang, C. (2021). From West to East: British Sojourners’ acculturation in China. International Marketing Review, 38(4), 671-689. https://doi.org/10.1108/imr-12-2018-0362

Purpose: Previous literature has often focused on Asian migrants’ acculturation to Western cultures with data collected in the Western contexts. This study will explore Western consumers’ acculturation to East Asian cultures and their consumption beh... Read More about From West to East: British Sojourners’ acculturation in China.