Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption – available for review. Please contact [log in to unmask] to request a copy.
Editors: Jonathan Faiers, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK and Shannon Bell Price, Pratt Institute, New York, USA
Bloomsbury Publishing is delighted to announce the launch of a new academic journal, Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption.
The journal considers luxury in broad socio-cultural contexts, exploring and interrogating both our historical and contemporary understanding of the term.
Within the context of the contemporary global economic recession, our consumption of luxury is being questioned and indeed transformed, with notions of ‘affordable luxury’, ‘sustainable luxury’ and even ‘luxury for less’ suggesting a new discourse. At the same time, the demand for luxury goods and services on a global scale is at an unprecedented level. Luxury examines all aspects of the subject: its historical formation and understanding, its contemporary global political and economic function, alongside an exploration of how the concept of luxury remains an impetus for design, popular culture, literature and fine art.
Content in the first issue includes:
Luxury
Author: Wilson, Elizabeth
Shops of Gold: Advertising Luxury in Seventeenth-century Paris
Author: DeJean, Joan
Luxury, Consumer Culture and Sumptuary Dynamics
Author: Featherstone, Mike
Luxury in Motion: The Precarious State of the Supercar
Author: Warren, Tamara
Copy Chic: Status Representation and Intellectual Property Rights in Contemporary Luxury Fashion
Authors: Mackinney-Valentin, Maria; Teilmann-Lock, Stina
Luxury New Media: Euphoria in Unhappiness
Authors: Armitage, John; Roberts, Joanne
The Long March of the Chinese Luxury Industry towards Globalization: Questioning the Relevance of the “China Time-honored Brand” Label
Authors: Forêt, Philippe; Mazzalovo, Gérald
Visit http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bloomsbury/lux for more information.
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Notes for Contributors:
Luxury welcomes articles from scholars, writers, practitioners and historians working directly within the remit of luxury as well as those from disciplines such as geography, anthropology, sociology, gender studies, literary theory, cultural anthropology, economics and design studies for example. For more information on submitting a paper, visit www.bloomsbury.com/luxury.
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Sapna Khimani
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