Some of you may have received information about this new book series
already. I am resending the call for publishing proposals (below) as we
are pleased to welcome Alladi Venkatesh as coeditor of the series, with
Colin Campbell, and to announce that the series title has been modified
to Studies in Consumption *and Markets*.
Thank you
Gerard Greenway
Harwood Academic Publishers
Call for Publishing Proposals
Book Series from Harwood Academic Publishers
** STUDIES in CONSUMPTION and MARKETS **
Edited by
Colin Campbell
Department of Sociology
University of York, UK
Alladi Venkatesh
Graduate School of Management
University of California, Irvine, USA
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
Volume 1. _How to Understand Advertising_. Barry Richards,
Department of Human Relations, University of London, UK. 1999.
Volume 2. _Food and Cultural Studies_. Bob Ashley, Joanne Hollows,
Steve Jone, Ben Taylor, Department of English and Media Studies,
Nottingham Trent University, UK. 2000.
Notes on Submission of Publishing Proposal
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The series will publish international work in English.
Monographs and strong and cohesive edited collections will be published.
The series will also publish textbooks. Proposals for monographs should
take
the form of a c. 2000-word document introducing and arguing for the
project
and a chapter outline of 3--500 words per chapter. Monograph proposals
should ideally be accompanied by some draft material, or a selection of
related
published articles.
PhD theses will not usually be considered for publication, but may be
considered
if they have genuine monograph potential and the author shows an
awareness of the
work required to turn the thesis into a book.
Proposals for essay collections should take the form of a c. 2000-word
document, as above,
plus full details of contributors (titles and affiliations), plus
abstracts of c. 500 words
for each essay. Edited collections must provide cohesive and full
coverage in terms of
the collection's aims and scope.
Proposals should be accompanied by the full c.v. of the author or editor.
For more information, or to discuss an idea, please contact in the first
instance:
Gerard Greenway
Commissioning Editor, Social Sciences
Harwood Academic Publishers
PO Box 90
Reading
Berks
RG1 8JL
United Kingdom
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Tel: 0044 (0)118 952 0314 (direct line)
Studies in Consumption and Markets is published by
Harwood Academic Publishers
a member of The Gordon and Breach Publishing Group
Website: www.gbhap.com
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