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PROFESSOR: MIKE FEATHERSTONE
Title: Problematizing Global Knowledge and Consumer Culture Formation
Mike Featherstone
With Lecture on Consumer Culture Spaces from Tomoko Tamari
Course Outline
The world has undergone a series of shifts in economic, social and cultural life over the past
thirty years, which many academics have been struggling to conceptualise. The use of terms
such as globalization, digitalization, postcolonialism, postmodernism, consumer culture, the
new geopolitics, the Global South, the BRICS, are symptoms of the struggle to come to
terms with a more complex, differentiated and multiple field of study. This is a world in
which two seemingly contradictory processes unfold: firstly, the tendency towards global
integration with common social, cultural and technological forms, standards and modes of
operating; secondly, the tendency towards the globalization of cultural diversity, based on our
increasing familiarity with other people’s wide variety of social practices and cultural
achievements.
This has become a world which is hard to figure and model from any one particular location.
The West can no longer presume to possess the monopoly right to define relevance, the
warrant to define the types of social and cultural phenomena and issues regarded as existing
or worthy of investigation. universities and other knowledge and culture forming institutions
produce forms of disciplinary knowledge which are influenced by these processes. The
global shifts are potentially producing a new archive and knowledge base which will increase
the supply of difference, and nourish new research agendas, and potentially deliver a new set
of concepts and taxonomies. At the same time given the dominant neoliberal ethos, this is a
world in which there is an increasing global competition between universities, which become
fixated by their ranking in global league tables. A process still dominated by Western
universities with their greater financial resource and linguistic advantage (global English).
This is a world in which the discovery and utilization of cultural differences takes place not
only in the economy, but within a wider cultural sphere through a range of cultural
institutions and sites (museums, galleries, libraries, cinemas); also in consumer culture.
Consumption has become increasingly central to contemporary economies. In the United
States, for example, it is estimated that around 70 percent of GDP derives from consumer
spending. BRIC countries such as Brazil, China and India, too are increasingly embracing
consumer culture and can no longer be seen as merely manufacturing goods for export to the
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West. Instead they have produced expanding middle classes which themselves generate new
markets for consumer and cultural goods.
If contemporary societies can be designated as ‘culturally saturated societies,’ this is in part
because consumption has become increasingly cultural, relying on images, design and
aestheticization. Consumer culture publicity, advertising and marketing requires vast
amounts of images and information: endless advice on what to choose and purchase from the
expanding array of goods. Digital technologies such as the Internet and the ubiquitous screen
culture increase the visibility of images throughout the everyday fabric. The Internet through
social media such as Facebook and YouTube also bring to the fore new types of public and
cultural spheres formation processes, introducing greater potential through self-production,
and encouraging greater dissemination, archiving and networking possibilities.
At the same time the digital technologies also drive the integrated global financial markets
which further the flows of currency, investment and share-dealing, much of which manages
to bypass state regulation. Since the 1980s with the establishment of neoliberalism, opening
up global life to market competition has become the new dogma. The expanding strata of the
rich and the super-rich, has increased the visibility of conspicuous consumption and luxury
lifestyles. This new global elite can be seen as the real cosmopolitans, who enjoy both
physical mobility and the mobility of a global financial system which allows them to both
avoid taxation and rapidly grow their fortunes. On the other hand this process has been
accompanied by the massive sovereign (state) debt along with individual consumer debt
which has meant a lowering of income and quality of life for many people. This is a process
which has slowed the global economy and increased social inequalities within many
societies, with one consequence being the rise of new forms of discontent and protest in the
West (e.g. Occupy).
Consumer culture offers images of fulfilment, luxury, exotica through the purchase of goods
and experiences. Yet this version of the good life is premised upon an expanding global
economy which is running into its planetary resource limits (climate change, raw materials,
energy). At the same time consumer culture, not only raises technical questions about how to
manage energy resource depletion, but the larger question of ‘how to live,’ what form of
ethics and aesthetics can and should satisfactorily bind together our existence. In a delimited
and finite planet, this points to our co-existence with other species and life forms. This raises
the question of value not just in terms of economic value generation, wealth and property
regimes, but also the question of the value of life: how to live with others. Consumer culture
inevitably brings to the fore questions of lifestyle, quality of life and the good life.
The course focuses on a series of issues in contemporary consumer culture. It endeavours to
relate them to recent developments in social and cultural theory, to gain greater insight into
the globalization of knowledge and the process of concept formation. It also seeks to raise
questions about the consumer culture as a value and its validity as a way of life.
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Lecture Outline and Key Readings
1. Global culture and the globalization of knowledge - global cultural integration and the
globalization of diversity; cosmopolitanism; dynamics of the global knowledge economy and
shifting geopolitics; problematizing global knowledge.
*Featherstone, M. and Venn, C. (2006) ‘Problematizing Global Knowledge: an Introduction,’
in special issue on Problematizing Global Knowledge (edited by M. Featherstone, C. Venn,
R. Bishop and J. Phillips), Theory, Culture & Society 23(2-3).
Featherstone, M. (2006) ‘Genealogies of the Global,’ in special issue on Problematizing
Global Knowledge (edited by M. Featherstone, C. Venn, R. Bishop and J. Phillips), Theory,
Culture & Society 23(2-3).
Featherstone, M. (2001) ‘Globalization Processes: Postnational Flows, Identity Formation
and Cultural Space,’ in Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Yitzhak Sternberg (eds) Identity, Culture and
Globalization. Leiden: International Institute of Sociology and Brill Academic Press.
Featherstone, M. (1995) ‘Global and Local Cultures,’ in Undoing Culture: Globalization,
Postmodernism and Identity. London: Sage. [also in Portuguese].
Featherstone, M. (2010) ‘Possible Futures for a Global Culture,’ World Politics Review, 30th
November.
Featherstone, M. (1990) 'Global Culture: An Introduction,’ Theory, Culture & Society 7(2-3).
Also in Global Culture, London: Sage Publications, 1991 and Portuguese.
2. Expanding Archives and cultural resources. The expanding cultural sphere; the
continuum of cultural institutions: the archive, the library, the university, the museum; the
department store and the world exhibition; shifting dynamics: governmentality, spectacular
entertainment spaces, consumption and leisure; resources for neoliberal entrepreneurial selfformation; digitalization, databases and big numbers; mass data, profiling and the social life
methods; self-archiving practices – Facebook, YouTube etc.
*Featherstone, M. (2000) ‘Archiving Cultures,’ special issue on Sociology Facing the Next
Millennium, British Journal of Sociology, 51 (1). [Portuguese translation]
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Featherstone, M. (2006) ‘The Archive,’ in special issue on Problematizing Global Knowledge
(edited by M. Featherstone, C. Venn, R. Bishop and J. Phillips), Theory, Culture & Society
23(2-3).
Beer, David and Burrows, Roger (2013) ‘Popular Culture, Digital Archives and the New
Social Life of Data,’ Special Issue on the Social Life of Methods. Theory, Culture & Society
30(4).
Ruppert, Evelyn, Law, John and Savage, Mike (2013) ‘Digital Devices: Re-assembling
Social Science Methods,’ Special Issue on the Social Life of Methods. Theory, Culture &
Society 30(4).
Featherstone, M. (forthcoming 2013) ‘Mass Culture,’ in Masamichi Sasaki, Ekkart
Zimmermann, Jack Goldstone, Stephen and A. Sanderson, (eds) Concise Encyclopedia of
Comparative Sociology. Leiden: Brill Publishers.
3 The super-rich lifestyles and luxury consumption. The rich, the super-rich, mobility and
cosmopolitanism; new rich conspicuous consumption, display and luxury lifestyles;
entrepreneurship, self-made and neoliberalism; global markets, tax avoidance, tax havens and
global plunder; consumer credit, debt and sovereign debt; Global social inequalities and
injustice; the world social forum, Occupy and modes of resistance.
Featherstone, M. (2013) ‘Super-Rich Lifestyles,’ in Birtchnell, T. and Caletrío, J. (eds.) Elite
Mobilities. Oxford: Routledge.
Featherstone, M. (2013) ‘The Rich and the Super-Rich: Mobility, Consumption and Luxury
Lifestyles’ in Nita Mathur (ed) Consumer Culture, Modernity and Identity. New Delhi: Sage.
Caletrio, J. (2012), ‘Global Elites, Privilege and Mobilities in Post-Organised Capitalism,’
Theory, Culture & Society 29(2).
*Featherstone, M. (2010) ‘The Sense of Luxury: Consumer Culture and Sumptuary
Dynamics,’ Les Cahiers Européens de l’Imaginaire, No.2, March.
Freeland, Chrystia (2011) ‘The Rise of the New Global Elite,’ The Atlantic, Jan/Feb 2011.
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4. Consumer culture spaces. The globalization of department stores; the formation of the
Japanese department store; women’s public sphere: the cinema, shopping and urban life;
design, style and aestheticization processes; new cultural intermediaries; global brands and
branding.
*Tamari, T. (2006) ‘The Rise of the Department Store and the Aestheticization of Everyday
Life in Early Twentieth Century Japan,’ International Journal of Japanese Sociology 15.
Featherstone, M. (2007) 'The Aestheticization of Everyday Life' in Consumer Culture and
Postmodernism. 2nd edition. London: Sage.
Smith Maguire, J, and Mathews, J. (2012) ‘Are We All Cultural Intermediaries Now?’
European Journal of Cultural Studies, 15.
5. Consumer culture: body image, affect and the question of value. The centrality of
bodies in consumer culture; body maintenance and the disciplining of bodies; body image
and affect; nature’s body and planetary limits; ethical consumption, sustainability, the care of
things; the good life and values: beyond consumer culture?
*Featherstone, M. (1982) 'The Body in Consumer Culture', Theory, Culture & Society, 1(2).
(Reprinted in M Featherstone, M. Hepworth and B.S. Turner (eds) The Body. London: Sage,
1991).
*Featherstone, M. (2010) ‘Body, Image and Affect in Consumer Culture,’ Body & Society
17(1).
*Featherstone, M. (2010) ‘Ethical Consumption: Some Prefatory Remarks,’ in Tania Lewis
and Emily Potter (eds) Ethical Consumption: A Critical Introduction. London: Routledge.
*Featherstone, M. (2011) ‘Societal Values: Value Formation and the Value of Life,’ in R
Bachika and M.S. Schulz (eds) ‘Values and Culture: the social shaping of the future’ special
issue, Current Sociology 59(2) March 2011.
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Course Reading List
General
Featherstone, M. (2007) Consumer Culture and Postmodernism. 2nd edition. London: Sage.
[also in Portuguese]
Featherstone, M. (1995) Undoing Culture: Globalization, Postmodernism and Identity.
London: Sage. [also in Portuguese]
Venn C. (2006) The Postcolonial Challenge. London: Sage.
Featherstone, M. (2001) ‘Globalization Processes: Postnational Flows, Identity Formation
and Cultural Space,’ in Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Yitzhak Sternberg (eds) Identity, Culture and
Globalization. International Institute of Sociology and Brill Academic Press, 2001.
Featherstone, M. (2010) ‘Possible Futures for a Global Culture,’ World Politics Review, 30th
November.
Thrift, N. (2005) Knowing Capitalism. London: Sage.
Myoshi, M. and Harootunian, H.D. (eds) (2002) Learning Places: the Afterlives of Area
Studies. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.
Sassatelli, R. (2007) Consumer Culture: History, Theory and Politics. London: Sage.
Schor, J.B. and Holt, D.B. (eds) (2000) The Consumer Society Reader. New York: the New
Press.
Trentmann, F. (2004) ‘Beyond Consumerism: New Historical Perspectives on Consumption,’
Journal of Contemporary History, 39(3) (2004):373-401.
Aldridge, A. (2003) Consumption. Oxford: Polity.
Featherstone, M. (2001) ‘Consumer Culture.’ International Encyclopaedia of the Social and
Behavioral Sciences. Oxford: Elsevier, 2001.
Ivanova, M.N. (2011) ‘Consumerism and the Crisis: Wither the American Dream,’ Critical
Sociology 37(3).
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Lash, S. and Lury, C. (2007) Global Culture Industry. Oxford: Polity.
Venn, C. (2009) ‘Biopolitics, Political Economy and Power; A Transcolonial Genealogy of
Inequality,’ Special Issue on Michel Foucault,’ Theory, Culture & Society 26(6).
Deleuze, G. (1999) Foucault. London: Continuum.
Ong, A. and S. Collier (eds) (2005) Global Assemblage. Oxford: Blackwell.
Gill, R. and A. Pratt (2008) ‘In the Social Factory? Immaterial Labour, Precariousness and
Cultural Work,’ Theory, Culture & Society Annual Review 2008 25(7-8).
Urry, J. (2007) Mobilities. Oxford: Polity Press.
Featherstone, M. (2000) ‘The globalization of mobility: experience, sociability and speed in
technological cultures,’ in E.E. Busto Garcia and F. Lobo (eds) Lazer numa sociedade
Globalizada/Leisure in a Globalized Society. São Paulo: SESC & World Leisure &
Recreational Association. [also in Portuguese]
Urry, J. (2010) ‘Mobile Sociology,’ British Journal of Sociology.
Lemke, T. (2011) Biopolitics: An Advanced Introduction.New York: New York University
Press.
Latour, B., Harman, G. and Erdélyi, P. (2011) The Prince and the Wolf: Latour and Harman
at the LSE. Winchester: Zero Books.
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Introduction – Problematizing Global Knowledge
*Featherstone, M. and Venn, C. (2006) ‘Problematizing Global Knowledge: an Introduction,’
in special issue on Problematizing Global Knowledge (edited by M. Featherstone, C. Venn,
R. Bishop and J. Phillips), Theory, Culture & Society 23(2-3).
Featherstone, M. (2006) ‘Genealogies of the Global,’ in special issue on Problematizing
Global Knowledge (edited by M. Featherstone, C. Venn, R. Bishop and J. Phillips), Theory,
Culture & Society 23(2-3).
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Spivak, G. (2006) ‘Culture Alive,’ in Problematizing Global Knowledge special issue,
Theory, Culture & Society 23(2-3).
Goody, J. (2006) The Theft of History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
*Goody, J. (2009) The Eurasian Miracle. Oxford: Polity.
Goody, J. (1996) The East in the West. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Goody, J. (2004) Capitalism and Modernity. Oxford: Polity.
Goody, J. (2009b) Renaissances: The One or the Many? Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Frank, A. G. (1998) Re-ORIENT: Global Economy in the Asian Age. Berkeley: University of
California Press.
Venn, C. (2001) Occidentalism. London: Sage.
Featherstone, M. (2009b) ‘Introduction to Jack Goody: Occidentalism and Comparative
History,’ Theory, Culture & Society 26(7-8).
Kang, Myungkoo (2006) ‘Why is there no Korea in Korean Cultural Studies,’ in special issue
on Problematizing Global Knowledge (edited by M. Featherstone, C. Venn, R. Bishop and J.
Phillips), Theory, Culture & Society 23(2-3).
Yeo, R. (2001) Encyclopaedic Visions. Cambridge: Cambridge U.P.
Bhambra, G. (2007) Rethinking Modernity. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Connell, R. (2011) ‘Sociology for the Whole World,’ International Sociology 26(3).
Keim, W. (2011) ‘Counter-hegemonic Currents and Internationalization of Sociology:
Theoretical Reflections and an Empirical Example,’ International Sociology 26(1).
Featherstone, M. (2002) ‘Cosmopolis: an Introduction,’ Theory, Culture & Society 19(1-2)
2002.
*Beck, U. (2002) ‘The Cosmopolitan Society and its Enemies,’ in M. Featherstone, H.
Patomäki, J. Tomlinson and C. Venn (eds) Cosmopolis, special issue, Theory, Culture &
Society 19(1-2).
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Featherstone, M. (2001) ‘Globalization Processes: Postnational Flows, Identity Formation
and Cultural Space,’ in Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Yitzhak Sternberg (eds) Identity, Culture and
Globalization. Leiden: International Institute of Sociology and Brill Academic Press.
Cheah, P. (2006) ‘Cosmopolitanism,’ in special issue on Problematizing Global Knowledge
(edited by M. Featherstone, C. Venn, R. Bishop and J. Phillips), Theory, Culture & Society
23(2-3).
Cheah, P. (2007) Inhuman Conditions: On Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights. Harvard
U.P.
Nava, M. (2007) Visceral Cosmopolitanism. Oxford: Berg.
Skrbis, Z., Kendall, G. and Woodward, I. (2004) ‘Locating Cosmopolitanism,’ Theory,
Culture & Society 21(6).
Jazeel, Tariq (2012) ‘Spatializing Difference beyond Cosmopolitanism:
Planetary Futures,’ Theory, Culture & Society 29(1).
Rethinking
Venn, C. (2009) ‘Biopolitics, Political Economy and Power; A Transcolonial Genealogy of
Inequality,’ Special Issue on Michel Foucault,’ Theory, Culture & Society 26(6).
Featherstone, M. (2010) ‘Possible Futures for a Global Culture,’ World Politics Review, 30th
November.
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The Archive
*Featherstone, M. (2000) ‘Archiving Cultures,’ special issue on Sociology Facing the Next
Millennium, British Journal of Sociology, 51 (1).
Featherstone, M. (2006) ‘The Archive,’ in special issue on Problematizing Global Knowledge
(edited by M. Featherstone, C. Venn, R. Bishop and J. Phillips), Theory, Culture & Society
23(2-3).
Featherstone, M. (2009) ‘Ubiquitous Media: An Introduction,’ Theory, Culture & Society
26(2-3).
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Derrida, J. (1996) Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression. Chicago: Chicago U.P.
Arkoun, M. (2007) ‘The Answers of Applied Islamology,’ Theory, Culture & Society 24(2).
Lynch, M. (1999) ‘Archives in Formation’, History of the Human Sciences 12(2): 65–87.
Osborne, T. (1999) ‘The Ordinariness of the Archive’, History of the Human Sciences 12(2):
51–64.
Brouwer, J. and Moulder, A. (2003) Information is Alive. Rotterdam: V2/Netherlands
Architectural Institute.
Simmel, G. (1997) ‘The Concept and Tragedy of Culture’, in D. Frisby and M. Featherstone
(eds) Simmel on Culture. London: Sage.
Steedman, C. (1998) ‘The Space of Memory: In an Archive’, History of the Human
Sciences11(4): 65–83.
Abdullah, H. and Benzer, M. (2011) ‘Our Fate as a Living Corpse…An Interview with Boris
Groys,’ Theory, Culture & Society 28(2).
Hansen, M.B.N. (2006) ‘Media Theory,’ in Problematizing Global Knowledge special issue,
Theory, Culture & Society 23(2-3).
Mulder, A. (2006) ‘Media,’ in Problematizing Global Knowledge special issue, Theory,
Culture & Society 23(2-3).
Yoshimi, S. (2006) ‘Information,’ in Problematizing Global Knowledge special issue,
Theory, Culture & Society 23(2-3).
Galloway, A. and Thacker E. (2007) The Exploit: A Theory of Networks. Minneapolis:
Minnesota University Press.
Hayles, N. K. (2009) ‘RFID: Human Agency and Meaning in Information-Intensive
Environments.’ Special Issue on Ubiquitous Media. Theory, Culture & Society 26(2-3).
*Crandall, J. (2010) ‘The Geo-spatialization of Calculative Operations: Tracking, Sensing
and Megacities,’ Theory, Culture & Society 27(6).
Shirkey, C. (200) Here Comes Everybody. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Zittrain, J. (2009) The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
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*Burrows, R. and N. Gane (2006) ‘Geodemographics, Software and Class,’ Sociology 40(5):
793-812.
Savage, M. and R. Burrows (2007) ‘The Coming Crisis of Empirical Sociology,’ Sociology
41(5): 885-899.
Beer, David and Burrows, Roger (2013) ‘Popular Culture, Digital Archives and the New
Social Life of Data,’ Special Issue on the Social Life of Methods. Theory, Culture & Society
30(4).
Ruppert, Evelyn, Law, John and Savage, Mike (2013) ‘Digital Devices: Re-assembling
Social Science Methods,’ Special Issue on the Social Life of Methods. Theory, Culture &
Society 30(4).
Cheney-Lippold, J. (2011) ‘The New Algorithmic Identity: Soft Biopolitics,
(De)contextualization, and the Modulation of Control,’ Theory, Culture & Society 30(4).
Featherstone, M. (forthcoming 2013) ‘Mass Culture,’ in Masamichi Sasaki, Ekkart
Zimmermann, Jack Goldstone, Stephen and A. Sanderson, (eds) Concise Encyclopedia of
Comparative Sociology. Leiden: Brill Publishers.
Ritzer, G. and Jurgenson, N. (2010) ‘Production, Consumption, Prosumption: The nature of
capitalism in the age of the digital ‘prosumer,’ Journal of Consumer Culture 10(1).
Lazzarato, M. (2007) ‘Machines to Crystallize Time: Bergson,’ in Life and the New Vitalism
special issue. Theory, Culture & Society 24(6).
3.
The Super-Rich
Featherstone, M. (2013) ‘Super-Rich Lifestyles,’ in Birtchnell, T. and Caletrío, J. (eds.) Elite
Mobilities. Oxford: Routledge.
Featherstone, M. (2013) ‘The Rich and the Super-Rich: Mobility, Consumption and Luxury
Lifestyles’ in Nita Mathur (ed) Consumer Culture, Modernity and Identity. New Delhi: Sage.
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Freeland, Chrystia (2011a) ‘The Rise of the New Global Elite,’ The Atlantic, Jan/Feb 2011.
Freeland, Chrystia (2011b) ‘Capitalism is Failing the Middle Class,’ Reuters April 15 2011.
Freeland, Chrystia (2012) The Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich. London:
Penguin Books.
Hay, Iain (ed) (2013) Geographies of the Super-Rich. London:: Edward Elgar.
*Beaverstock, J., Hubbard, P., Short, J.R. (2004) ‘Getting Away with it? Exposing the
Geographies of the Super-Rich’, Geoforum 35: 401-407.
Armstrong, S. (2010) The Super-Rich Shall Inherit the Earth. London: Constable.
Kempf, H. (2010) How the Super-Rich are Destroying the Earth. London: Green Books.
Frank, R. (2007) Richistan. London: Piatkus Book.
Haseler, S. 2000. The Super-Rich. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Irvin, G. (2008) Super-Rich. Cambridge: Polity.
Merrill Lynch/Capgemini Ernst & Young (2012) World Wealth Report 2012. New York:
Merrill Lynch/Cap Gemini Ernst & Young.
Shaxson, N. (2011) Treasure Islands. Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World. London:
Bodley Head.
Savage, M. and Williams, K. (eds) (2008) Remembering Elites. Oxford: Blackwell.
Wedel, J. R. (2009) Shadow Elites: How the World’s new Power Brokers Undermine
Democracy, Government, and the Free Market. New York: Basic Books.
Elliott, A. and John Urry (eds) (2010) Mobile Lives. London: Routledge.
Pow, Choon-Piew (2011) ‘Living it up: Super-Rich Enclave and Transnational Elite
Urbanism in Singapore,’ Geoforum.
Davis, M. and Monk, D.B. (eds) (2007) Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism.
New York: New Press.
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Bishop, M. and Green, M. (2008) Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World.
London: A & C Black Publishers Ltd.
Caletrio, J. (2012), ‘Global Elites, Privilege and Mobilities in Post-Organised Capitalism,’
Theory, Culture & Society 29(2).
Berry, C.J. (1994) The Idea of Luxury. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sekora, J. (1977) Luxury: the Concept in Western Thought, Eden to Smollett. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press.
*Featherstone, M. (2010) ‘The Sense of Luxury: Consumer Culture and Sumptuary
Dynamics,’ Les Cahiers Européens de l’Imaginaire, No.2, March.
Burke, P. (1993) ‘Res e Verba: Conspicuous Consumption in the Early Modern World,’ in J.
Brewer and R. Porter (eds) Consumption and the World of Goods. London: Routledge.
4.
Consumer Culture Spaces
*Tamari, T. (2006) ‘The Rise of the Department Store and the Aestheticization of Everyday
Life in Early Twentieth Century Japan,’ International Journal of Japanese Sociology 15.
Laermans, Rudi (1993) 'Learning to Consume: Early Department Stores and the Shaping of
the Modern Consumer Culture 1860-1914, Theory, Culture & Society 10(4).
Leach, W.R. (1984) 'Transformations in a Culture of Consumption: Women and Department
Stores, 1890-1925,' Journal of American History 71(2): 319-342.
Miller, M.B. (1981) The Bon Marché: Bourgeois Culture and the Department Store 18691920. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Williams, R.H. (1982) Dream Worlds: Mass Consumption in Late Nineteenth Century
France. Berkeley: California University Press.
MacPherson, K. (ed) (1997) Asian Department Stores. London: Curzon.
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*Nava, M. (2002) ‘Cosmopolitan Modernities and the Allure of Difference’ Theory, Culture
& Society 19(1-2).
Nava, M. (2007) Visceral Cosmopolitanism: Gender, Culture and the Normalization of
Difference. Berg.
Silverberg, M. (1991) ‘The Modern Girl as Militant,’ in G.L. Bernstein (ed.) Recreating
Japanese Women, 1600-1945. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Parker, K.W. (2003) ‘Sign consumption in the 19th-century department store: An
examination of visual merchandising in the grand emporiums (1846–1900),’ Journal of
Sociology, 39(4).
Miles, S. (2010) Spaces for Consumption. London: Sage.
Tunc, E.M. and Babic, A.A. (eds) (2008) The Globetrotting Shopaholic: Consumer Spaces,
Products, and their Cultural Places. Cambridge: Scholars Press.
Smith Maguire, J, and Mathews, J. (2012) ‘Are We All Cultural Intermediaries Now?’
European Journal of Cultural Studies, 15.
Shaw, J. (2010) Shopping: Social and Cultural Perspectives. Oxford: Polity Press.
Szmigin, I. (2006) 'The Aestheticization of Consumption: An Exploration of ‘brand.new’ and
‘Shopping,’ Marketing Theory, 6(1).
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