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Selling infant safety: entanglements of childhood preciousness, vulnerability and unpredictability (2014)
Journal Article
Martens, L. (2014). Selling infant safety: entanglements of childhood preciousness, vulnerability and unpredictability. Young Consumers: Insight and Ideas for Responsible Marketers, 15(3), 239-250. https://doi.org/10.1108/yc-10-2013-00409

Purpose
This paper aims to examine, through a focus on the practice of child caring, how three qualities of childhood preciousness, vulnerability and unpredictability, are nurtured by being brought together as rationales for product re-design, innov... Read More about Selling infant safety: entanglements of childhood preciousness, vulnerability and unpredictability.

Researching habits: advances in linguistic and embodied research practice (2013)
Journal Article
Martens, L., Halkier, B., & Pink, S. (2014). Researching habits: advances in linguistic and embodied research practice. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 17(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2014.853999

The articles in this special issue have one thing in common: all engage with the epistemological and methodological concerns of researching habits, routines and practices. However, in developing their papers, the authors bring to the fore a diverse r... Read More about Researching habits: advances in linguistic and embodied research practice.

Motherhoods, Markets and Consumption (Ed. L Martens) (2013)
Book
Martens, L. (2013). S. O'Donohoe, M. Hogg, P. Maclaran, L. Martens, & L. Stevens (Eds.). Motherhoods, Markets and Consumption (Ed. L Martens). Taylor and Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203469729

It takes more than a baby to make a mother, and mothers make more than babies. Bringing together a range of international studies, Motherhoods, Markets and Consumption examines how marketing and consumer culture constructs particular images of what m... Read More about Motherhoods, Markets and Consumption (Ed. L Martens).

The making of mothers (2013)
Book Chapter
O'Donohoe, S., Hogg, M., Maclaran, P., Martens, L., & Stevens, L. (2013). The making of mothers. In Motherhoods, Markets and Consumption. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203469729-1

In Korean author Kyung-sook Shin's best-selling novel, Please Look After Mom, when an elderly mother goes missing in Seoul, her family are desperate to find her, but to no avail. The book revolves around their search, with each chapter narrated by a... Read More about The making of mothers.