
Select your institution from the list provided, which will take you to your institution's website to sign in.Click Sign in through your institution.Shibboleth / Open Athens technology is used to provide single sign-on between your institution’s website and Oxford Academic. This authentication occurs automatically,Īnd it is not possible to sign out of an IP authenticated account.Ĭhoose this option to get remote access when outside your institution. Typically, access is provided across an institutional network to a range of IP addresses. If you are a member of an institution with an active account, you may be able to access content in the following ways: Get help with access Institutional accessĪccess to restricted content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. Overall, this study contributes to consumer research by illuminating the role of speed and rhythm in consumer culture. Conceptualizing consumer deceleration allows us to enhance our understanding of temporality and consumption, embodied consumption, extraordinary experiences, and the theory of social acceleration. Achieving deceleration is challenging, as it requires resynchronization to a different temporal logic and the ability to manage intrusions from acceleration. Each is enabled by consumer practices and market characteristics, rules, and norms, and results in time being experienced as passing more slowly and as being an abundant resource. Consumers decelerate in three ways: embodied, technological, and episodic.

Consumer deceleration is a perception of a slowed-down temporal experience achieved via a decrease in certain quantities (traveled distance, use of technology, experienced episodes) per unit of time through altering, adopting, or eschewing forms of consumption. To do so, we ethnographically study the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage in Spain and introduce the concept of consumer deceleration. Drawing from the theory of social acceleration, we explore how consumers can experience and achieve a slowed-down experience of time through consumption.

People increasingly seek out opportunities to escape from a sped-up pace of life by engaging in slow forms of consumption.
