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John McCarthy
 
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Subject:    Studies in Consumption
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Date:       11/27/98 12:36 PM
 
 
 
Call for Publishing Proposals
 
Book Series
 
** STUDIES in CONSUMPTION **
 
Edited by Colin Campbell
Department of Sociology
University of York, UK
 
Consumption has become a major focus of research
and scholarship in the social sciences and humanities.
Increasingly perceived as central to any successful
understanding of the modern world, the meaning of the
individual and collective consumption of goods is now a
crucial issue at the heart of numerous contemporary debates
on personal identity, the social and cultural structure of
postmodern societies, and the historical development of
modern industrial society.
 
This new interdisciplinary series welcomes proposals from
scholars and researchers working on consumption-related
topics in the fields of sociology, anthropology, material culture
studies, social, economic and cultural history, media and
cultural studies, psychology, communication, human geography,
marketing, economics, and art and design.
 
The series will publish the results of empirical research
which employ an ethnographic, historical, or case-study
approach. Theoretical and conceptual discussions are also
welcome, either those which represent original perspectives
on the study of consumption or those which constitute critical
commentaries on existing theories.
 
Specifically the editor welcomes proposals for work on:
 
* Shopping and the retail environment
* Clothing and the fashion system
* Advertising and the representation of products
* Tourism and recreation
* The mass media, the arts and cultural consumption
* Consumption festivals and gift giving
* Money, credit and resource allocation
* Consumption and the _nouveau riche_
* Food and drink
* Rubbish, secondhand goods and markets
* Consumption and the body
* IT and consumption
 
In addition, proposals are welcome addressing:
 
* New approaches to the study of consumption
* Critiques of existing theories
* Studies of the nature or development of consumer society
* Studies of consumer culture
* Consumption and the postmodernism debate
* Consumption, lifestyle and problems of identity
* Gender and consumption
* Sexuality and consumption
* Consumption and social stratification
* Consumption, the environment and green issues
* Consumption, citizenship and the state
* Collective and private modes of consumption provision
 
Proposals and requests for further information should,
in the first instance, be addressed to:
 
Gerard Greenway
Commissioning Editor, Social Sciences
 
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Tel: +44 (0)118 952 0314 (direct line)
Fax: +44 (0)118 956 8211
 
Harwood Academic Publishers
PO Box 90
Reading RG1 8JL
United Kingdom
 
 
Volume 1. _How to Understand Advertising_. Barry Richards,
Department of Human Relations, University of London. 1999.
 
 
Studies in Consumption is published by
Harwood Academic Publishers
a member of The Gordon and Breach Publishing Group
Website: www.gbhap.com
 
 
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