Publications Database

Welcome to the new Schulich Peer-Reviewed Publication Database!

The database is currently in beta-testing and will be updated with more features as time goes on. In the meantime, stakeholders are free to explore our faculty’s numerous works. The left-hand panel affords the ability to search by the following:

  • Faculty Member’s Name;
  • Area of Expertise;
  • Whether the Publication is Open-Access (free for public download);
  • Journal Name; and
  • Date Range.

At present, the database covers publications from 2012 to 2020, but will extend further back in the future. In addition to listing publications, the database includes two types of impact metrics: Altmetrics and Plum. The database will be updated annually with most recent publications from our faculty.

If you have any questions or input, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

 

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Ghoshal, T., Belk, R.W. (2025). "Can You See Me Now? Toward a Theory of Sensory Flamboyance and Subtlety in Consumption", Consumer Needs and Solutions, 12,3.

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Abstract This article proposes that taste distinctions with respect to sensory intensity – specifically, preferences for sensory flamboyance versus subtlety (e.g., bright versus dull colors) – may be structured sociologically, even more than by individual dispositions. Based on an ethnographic study of women in India, we propose an emergent theory to account for how members of different social classes develop and refine their sensory preferences. Low cultural capital consumers gravitate toward sensory flamboyance, while high cultural capital consumers gravitate toward the subtle. The flamboyance seen among lower class consumers may be grounded largely in an ethic of standing out in order to be “societally visible.” Meanwhile, the subtlety seen among upper classes may be grounded more in a learned proclivity toward more nuanced fitting in, now reinforced by habitus and deployed as a marker of elite status.

Belk, R., Joy, A., Wang, J. and Sherry, J. (2020). "Emotion and Consumption: Toward a New Understanding of Cultural Collisions between Hong Kong and PRC Luxury Consumers", Journal of Consumer Culture, 20(4), 578-597.

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Abstract Incorporating Illouz’s theory of emotions, this study examines how specific emotions drive consumption, as embodied by escalating conflicts between Hong Kong and the PRC luxury consumers. When affluent Mainlanders pursue status signifiers via consumption of relatively affordable luxury goods in Hong Kong, local residents’ disdain triggers a nexus of emotions: envy, resentment, and status anxiety, linked to fears of being occupied by and assimilated into Chinese culture. Deploying cultural capital and status competition rooted in imagination and refinement, Hong Kongese contrast their knowledge-based use of luxury brands with the avid consumption of PRC visitors, fueled by often extreme wealth. For Hong Kongese, such one-upmanship degenerates into self-doubt and self-failure in their image management attempts, precipitating intense hostility toward PRC consumers. Emotions engender colliding notions of self, status, and cultural and political identity between these disparate yet intertwined cultures.