Journal of Consumer Culture
Journal of Consumer Culture is an established journal, supporting and promoting the continuing expansion in interdisciplinary research focused on consumption and consumer culture, opening up debates and areas of exploration.
Global in perspective and drawing on both theory and empirical research, the journal reflects the need to engage critically with modern consumer culture and to understand its central role in contemporary social processes.
"With its global sweep and international contributors, this journal is a valuable addition to any library." The Times Higher Education Supplement
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The Journal of Consumer Culture is fully peer reviewed journal, that supports and promotes the continuing expansion in interdisciplinary research focused on consumption and consumer culture, opening up debates and areas of exploration. Global in perspective and drawing on both theory and empirical research, the journal reflects the need to engage critically with modern consumer culture and to understand its central role in contemporary social processes.
The Journal of Consumer Culture brings together articles from the many social sciences and humanities in which consumer culture has become a significant focus. It also engages with overarching contemporary perspectives on social transformation, all of which give an unprecedented importance to consumption in understanding social processes at both local and global levels.
The Journal of Consumer Culture covers a wide range of topics relating consumer culture to issues such as:
- globalization
- shopping and marketing
- the body
- ecommerce and the information society
- social divisions of gender, class, sexuality and ethnicity
- commodification
- aestheticisation and virtuality
- science and technology studies
- environmental critiques
- popular and material culture
- identity
- taste, style and fashion
- classical and contemporary social theory
- economic sociology
- work
- production and design
- media and cultural consumption
| Steven Miles | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| Matthew Hilton | University of Birmingham , UK |
| William T S Mazzarella | University of Chicago, USA |
| Juliet Schor | Boston College, USA |
| J Craig Thompson | University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
| Alan Warde | Manchester University, UK |
| Susanne Freidberg | Dartmouth College, USA |
| Madeleine Dutton | University of Brighton, UK |
| Tom Brock | Manchester Metropolitan University, UK |
| George Ritzer | University of Maryland, USA |
| Paul Widdop | Leeds Beckett University, UK |
| Mark Granovetter | Stanford University |
| Douglas Kellner | University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
| Angela McRobbie | Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK |
| Danny Miller | University College London, UK |
| Don Slater | LSE, UK |
| Viviana Zelizer | Princeton University, USA |
| Sharon Zukin | City University of New York, USA |
| Arjun Appadurai | New York University, USA |
| Russell W Belk | York University, Canada |
| Colin Campbell | University of York, UK |
| Allison Clarke | University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria |
| Daniel Thomas Cook | Rutgers University-Camden, USA |
| Gary Cross | Pennsylvania State University, USA |
| Dominique Desjeux | Sorbonne, France |
| Pasi Falk | University of Helsinki, Finland |
| Ben Fine | School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK |
| Gary Alan Fine | Northwestern University |
| Mark Gottdiener | University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY, USA |
| Victoria de Grazia | Columbia University, USA |
| Eva Illouz | Jerusalem University, Israel |
| Sut Jhally | University of Massachusetts at Amherst |
| Stephen Kline | Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada |
| Michèle Lamont | Harvard University, USA |
| Peter Lunt | University of Leicester, UK |
| Michel Maffesoli | Université René Déscartes, Paris V, France |
| Frank Mort | University of Manchester, UK |
| Chandra Mukerji | University of California, San Diego, USA |
| Mica Nava | University of East London, UK |
| Per Ostergaard | Odense University, Denmark |
| Elspeth Probyn | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Juliet Schor | Boston College, USA |
| Nigel Thrift | Tsinghua University, China |
| Melanie Wallendorf | University of Arizona, USA |
| Alan Warde | Manchester University, UK |
| Richard Wilk | Indiana University, USA |
| Elizabeth Wilson | London Metropolitan University, UK |
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