This episode accompanies the story "Happy Christmases Are All Alike; Each Unhappy Christmas is Unhappy in its Own Way."

In this discussion the author, Dr Vivien Blanchet, talks to Dr Teea Palo, about the myth of Christmas and its relationship to marketing, markets, and consumer culture.

Further Reading

Teea’s research on Santa:

Palo, Teea, Katy Mason, and Philip Roseo (2018), “Performing a Myth to Make a Market: The construction of the ‘magical world’ of Santa,” Organization Studies, 41 (1), DOI: 10.1177/0170840618789192

Vivien mentioned Marcel Mauss, further reading below:

Arnould, Eric J. (2017) “Marcel Mauss: The Gift that Moves…” in Canonical Authors in Consumption Theory, Edited by Søren Askegaard and Benoît Heilbrunn, Routledge.

Arnould, Eric J. and Alexander S. Rose (2015), “Mutuality: Critique and Substitute for Belk’s “Sharing”,” Marketing Theory, 16 (1), DOI: 10.1177/1470593115572669

Vivien also mentioned Roland Barthes, further reading below:

Visconti, Luca M. (2017) “Ronald Barthes: The (Anti-)Structuralist,” in Canonical Authors in Consumption Theory, Edited by Søren Askegaard and Benoît Heilbrunn, Routledge.

And finally, Latour’s Paris Ville Invisible was noted as an example of visual research…

Latour, Bruno and Emilie Hermant (2006) Paris: Invisible City, English translator Liz Carey-Libbrect.

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