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Apologies to anyone who has already received this message from 'Consumer-studies'. - DC ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 16:02:41 +0000 From: [log in to unmask] Reply-To: [log in to unmask] To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Studies in Consumption 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 Please Distribute. Thank You. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%