Communicating Identity/Consuming Difference
Call for Papers for Communicating Identity/Consuming Difference, the 6th William A. Kern Conference on Visual Communication, to be held at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2014 Read More
Plastic economies
Gay Hawkins on Accumulation: The Material Politics of Plastic, a new collection co-edited with Jennifer Gabrys and Mike Michael Read More
Just looking? Choice and constraint in practices of visual consumption at magazine newsstands
A new paper by Mehita Iqani, published in Consumption Markets & Culture, that looks at the practices of looking that occur in London’s newsstands Read More
Saving public money: The new moral economy of recycling
Katy Wheeler on the changing moral economy of recycling and the effects of different systems of recycling provision Read More
Unpacking insight: How consumers are qualified by advertising agencies
A new paper by Tomas Artizia, published in Journal of Consumer Culture, describing how consumers are qualified and mobilised in advertising agencies, with a focus on how ‘insight’ is producted and circulated Read More
Consumption Markets & Culture articles
Consumption Markets & Culture offers free access to five articles from the journal, including winners of the journals’ Best Paper awards, to celebrate its first Impact Factor of 0.500. Read More
CMC Best Paper Award
Journal Consumption Markets and Culture announces its Best Paper award for articles published in 2012 Read More
Symbolically sustainable?
Helene de Burgh-Woodman introduces a new paper, co-authored with Dylan King, which explores what sustainability might mean in both commercial and consumption practice Read More
Encyclopedia of Consumption and Consumer Studies
Calls for contributions, across a range of topics, to a major reference work within consumption studies, to be published by Wiley Blackwell and co-edited by J. Michael Ryan and Daniel Cook. Read More
Consumer Culture Theory Workshop: Updated call
Updated call for a workshop that follows the Consumer Culture Theory Conference; deadline for submissions March 1, 2013 Read More
