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The programme produced a large body of publications. This page lists books, book chapters and articles, as well as giving access to the programme's series of working papers, and the consumption bibliography.

	The Design of Everyday Life E. Shove, M. Watson, M. Hand and J. Ingram, (Oxford: Berg, 2007) The Design of Everyday Life presents a pathbreaking analysis of the sociology of objects, illuminating the connections between design and consumption. Find out about more than 20 books from the programme by visiting the books section below
	The latest addition to the programme's series of working papers is Semantic Provisioning of Children's Food: Commerce, Care and Maternal Practice by Dan Cook. The working paper series comprises over 30 works by members of the programme. They can be downloaded by visiting the working papers section

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books

	Chewing Gum: The Fortunes of Taste M. Redclift, (New York: Routledge, 2004) In Chewing Gum, Michael Redclift deftly chronicles the growing popularity of gum in the U.S. alongside a fascinating history of peasant revolution led by charismatic Indians in the jungles of southern Mexico. For further information visit the book’s page with Routledge
	The London Look: Fashion from Street to Catwalk C. Breward, E. Ehrman and C. Evans, (London: Yale University Press, 2004) From Savile Row to Carnaby Street, from the bohemian dress of the Oscar Wilde circle in the nineteenth century to the punk street styles of recent years, London has been a significant source of fashion style. This stunning book, a rich and stimulating history of two hundred years of London fashion, explores the circumstances and characteristics that have made the “London look” distinctive. For further information visit the book’s page with Yale
	Fashioning London: Clothing and the Modern Metropolis C. Breward, (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2004) Over the past three centuries, London has established itself as one of the worlds most inventive fashion capitals. City life and fashion have always been intertwined, but nowhere has this relationship been more excitingly expressed than on the streets of London. Fashioning London looks at the manner in which particular styles of dress became associated with this leading international city, ultimately challenging the dominance of Paris, Milan and New York. For further information visit the book’s page with Berg
	Production and Consumption in English Households, 1600-1750 M. Overton, J. Whittle, D. Dean and A. Hann, (London: Routledge, 2004) This economic, social and cultural analysis of the nature and variety of production and consumption activities in households in Kent and Cornwall yields important new insights on the transition to capitalism in England. For further information visit the book’s page with Routledge
	Audiences and Publics: When Cultural Engagement Matters for the Public Sphere S. Livingstone (ed.), (Bristol: Intellect Press, 2005) For further information visit the book’s page with University of Chicago Press
	Frontiers: Histories of Civil Society and Nature M. Redclift, (Cambridge MA.: MIT Press, 2006) In Frontiers, Michael Redclift examines the relationship between nature and society in frontier areas--contested zones in which rival versions of civil society vie with one another, often over the definition and management of nature itself. For further information visit the book’s page with MIT Press
	Swinging Sixties C. Breward, D. Gilbert and J. Lister (eds), (London: V&A Publications, 2006) Swinging Sixties takes a new look at a revolutionary moment in twentieth-century fashion. Its starting point is the publication in April 1966 of Time Magazine’s famous issue on London’s reinvention as the new world centre of style. Forty years on, chapters by prominent authors reconsider the role played by designers, retail entrepreneurs, journalists, photographers and film-makers in promoting a new way of dressing that reverberated far beyond the British capital. For further information visit the book’s page with the V&A
	Fashion's World Cities Edited by Christopher Breward and David Gilbert (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006) This book examines the powerful relationship between metropolitan modernity and fashion culture. In chapters ranging from Los Angeles to Moscow and Dakar to Mumbai, Fashion's World Cities explores the relationship between major metropolises and the production, consumption and mythologizing of fashion. For further information visit the book’s page with Berg
	Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives: Historical Trajectories, Transnational Exchanges Edited by John Brewer and Frank Trentmann (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006) Globalization and consumerism are two of the buzzwords of the early twenty-first century. In Consuming Cultures, renowned scholars explore the links between modernity and consumption. The book fills a gap in contemporary thinking on the subject by approaching it from a truly global point-of-view. It draws on case studies from around the world, with Africa, Asia and Central America featuring as prominently as Western countries. Challenging and pioneering, Consuming Cultures problematises popular accounts of globalization and consumerism, decentring the West and concentrating on putting history back into these accounts. For further information visit the book’s page with Berg
	The Making of the Consumer: Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World. Edited by Frank Trentmann (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006). The 'consumer' has become a ubiquitous person in public discourse and academic research, but who is this person? The Making of the Consumer is the first interdisciplinary study that follows the evolution of the consumer in the modern world The first title in the Cultures of Consumption Series with Berg publishers. For further information visit the book’s page with Berg
	Media Consumption and Public Engagement Beyond the Presumption of Attention by Nick Couldry, Sonia Livingstone and Tim Markham (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) Contemporary democracies are based on the belief that media can deliver the attention of the voting populations. But in an age of multiplying media, political disillusionment, and time-scarcity, is this plausible any longer? This book addresses this major question head on, drawing on the voices of people from the UK who were asked to write diaries about their experiences (or not) of 'public connection', as well as survey data and comparative research in the USA and elsewhere. For further information visit the book's page with Palgrave
	The Khat Controversy: Stimulating the Debate on Drugs D. Anderson, S. Beckerleg, D. Hailu and Axel Klein, (Oxford: Berg, 2007). The first study of this contested drug, The Khat Controversy provides a concise introduction to the issues surrounding khat usage and suggests how policymakers should address them For further information visit the book's page with Berg
	Creating Citizen-Consumers: Changing Publics and Changing Public Services John Clarke, Janet Newman, Nick Smith, Elizabeth Vidler and Louise Westmarland (London: Sage, 2007) This book explores a range of theoretical, political, policy and practice issues that arise in the shift towards consumerism. It draws on recent controversies about choice to examine the tensions of modernising public services to meet the demands of a consumer society. For further information visit the book's page with Sage
	The Design of Everyday Life E. Shove, M. Watson, M. Hand and J. Ingram, (Oxford: Berg, 2007). The Design of Everyday Life presents a pathbreaking analysis of the sociology of objects, illuminating the connections between design and consumption. For further information visit the book’s page with Berg
	Kenyan Khat: The Social Life of a Stimulant N. Carrier, (Leiden: Brill, 2007). This book explores how networks of Kenyan khat bring people of diverse backgrounds together in sometimes uneasy relationships, and highlights the vast cluster of meanings this remarkable commodity has accrued in its 'social life'. For further information visit the book's page with Brill
	Citizenship and Consumption K. Soper and F. Trentmann (eds), (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) Citizenship and Consumption provides a timely forum for current thinking on consumption and citizenship, exploring overlaps, interactions and tensions between them. Bringing together experts from history, theory, media studies, law, and civil society, the volume retrieves alternative traditions of consumption and citizenship in West and East, past and present, and evaluates the civic prospects of consumption for the future. For further information visit the book’s page with Palgrave
	Governance, Citizens, and Consumers: Agency and Resistance in Contemporary Politics M. Bevir and F. Trentmann (eds), (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) This is the first book to bring together a focus on governance with that on cultures of consumption. It asks about the changing place of the consumer as citizen in recent trends in governance, about the tensions between competing ideas and practices of consumerism, and about the active role of consumers in the construction of governance. The book seeks to expand the debate about consumers and governance and to raise the possibility of new conceptions and policy agendas. For further information visit the book’s page with Palgrave
	Food and Globalization: Transnational Perspectives on Consumption, Markets and Politics in the Modern World A. Nützenadel and F. Trentmann (eds), (Oxford: Berg, 2007) In this wide-ranging and fascinating book, the authors provide an historical overview of the relationship between food and globalization in the modern world. Together, the chapters of this book provide a fresh perspective on both global history and food studies, and as such this book will be of interest to a wide-range of students and scholars of history, food studies, sociology, anthropology, and globalization. For further information visit the book’s page with Berg
	Better than Shopping: Counter-Consumerism and its Pleasures K. Soper, M. Ryle and L. Thomas, (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming)
	Governing Consumption: Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption C. Barnett, N. Clarke, P. Cloke and A. Malpass, (Oxford: Berg, forthcoming).
	Multinational Retailers in China J. Gamble, (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).
	Alternative Food Networks: Reconnecting Producers, Consumers and Food? M. Kneafsey, L. Holloway, L. Venn, R. Cox, E. Dowler and H. Tuomainen, (Oxford: Berg, forthcoming).
	Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption, and Civil Society, in Modern Britain F. Trentmann (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2008) One of Britain's defining contributions to the modern world, Free Trade united civil society and commerce and gave birth to consumer power. In this book, Frank Trentmann shows how the doctrine of Free Trade contributed to the growth of a democratic culture in Britain - and how it fell apart. For further information visit the book’s page with OUP

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working papers

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book chapters

D. Anderson and N. Carrier ‘“Flowers of Paradise” or “Polluting the Nation”, Contested Narratives of Khat Consumption’, in J. Brewer & F. Trentmann (eds), Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives: Historical Trajectories, Transnational Exchanges (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006), pp. 145-66.

S. Ashmore, ‘Cosmopolitan Shopping: Marketing the National and Transnational in London’s West End’, in C. Breward and D. Gilbert (eds), Fashion’s World Cities (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006).

S. Ashmore, ‘“I Think They’re All Mad”: Shopping in Swinging London’, in C. Breward, D. Gilbert and J. Lister (eds), Sixties Fashion (London: V&A Publications, 2006), pp. 58-79.

C. Barnett, P. Cafaro and T. Newholm, ‘Philosophy and Ethical Consumption’, in R.
Harrison, T. Newholm, and D. Shaw (eds.) The Ethical Consumer (London: Sage, 2005), pp. 11-24.

C. Barnett, N. Clarke, P. Cloke and A. Malpass, ‘Articulating Ethics and Consumption’, in M. Boström, A. Føllesden, M. Klintman, M. Michelleti, M. Sørensen (eds), Political Consumerism: Its Motivations, Power, and Conditions in the Nordic Countries and Elsewhere (TemaNord 2005:517) (Nordic Council of Minister, Copenhagen, 2005), pp. 99-112.

M. Bevir and F. Trentmann, ‘Consumption and Citizenship in the New Governance’, in M. Bevir and F. Trentmann (eds), Governance, Citizens, and Consumers: Agency and Resistance in Contemporary Politics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), chapter 1. 
 
M. Bevir and F. Trentmann, ‘After Modernism: Local Reasoning, Consumption, and Governance’, in M. Bevir and F. Trentmann (eds), Governance, Citizens, and Consumers: Agency and Resistance in Contemporary Politics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), chapter 8. 

M. Bevir and F. Trentmann, ‘Civic Choices: Retrieving Perspectives on Rationality’, in K. Soper and F. Trentmann (eds), Citizenship and Consumption (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). 

T.W. Chan and J.H. Goldthorpe, ‘The Social Stratification of Theatre, Dance and
Cinema Attendance’, in D.B. Grusky and S. Szel´enyi (eds), The Inequality Reader: Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race, Class, Gender, (Oxford: Westview Press, 2005), pp. 525–536.

P. Church Gibson, ‘Creating the Fashion City on Film, 1953-1961’, in C. Breward and D. Gilbert (eds), Fashion’s World Cities (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006).

J. Clarke, ‘‘It’s Not Like Shopping’: Citizens, Consumers and the Reform of Public Services’, in M. Bevir and F. Trentmann (eds), Governance, Citizens, and Consumers: Agency and Resistance in Contemporary Politics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), chapter 5. 

J. Clarke, N. Smith and E. Vidler, ‘Creating Citizen-Consumers: Inequalities and Instabilities,’ in M. Powell, K. Clarke and L. Bauld (eds), Social Policy Review 17 (Bristol, The Policy Press, 2005).

N. Couldry, S. Livingstone and T. Markham, ‘‘Public Connection’ and the Uncertain Norms of Media Consumption’, in K. Soper and F. Trentmann (eds), Citizenship and Consumption (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007), chapter 7.

R. Cox, M. Kneafsey, L. Venn, L. Holloway, E. Dowler and H. Tuomainen, ‘Constructing Sustainability through Reconnection – the Case of ‘Alternative’ Food Networks’, in G. Robinson (ed.), Sustainable Rural Systems (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007).

B. Edwards, ‘Shaping the Shopping City: Master Plans and Pipe Dreams in London's West End, 1945-1979’, in C. Breward and D. Gilbert (eds), Fashion’s World Cities (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006).

B. Edwards ‘“Brave New London”: Architecture for a Swinging City’, in C. Breward, D. Gilbert and J. Lister (eds), Swinging Sixties (London: V&A Publications, 2006).

B. Edwards, ‘A Man’s World?  Masculinity and Metropolitan Modernity at Simpson Piccadilly’, in D. Gilbert, D. Matless and B. Short (eds) Geographies of British Modernity: Space and Society in the Twentieth Century (Oxford: Blackwells RGS-IBG Research Series, 2003). 

J. Gamble, ‘Consumers with Chinese Characteristics?  Local Customers in British and
Japanese Multinational Retailers in China”, in F. Trentmann (ed.), The Making of the Consumer: Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World (Oxford and New York, Berg: 2006).

D. Gilbert, ‘From Paris to Shanghai: The Changing Geographies of Fashion's World Cities’, in C. Breward and D. Gilbert (eds), Fashion’s World Cities (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006).

D. Gilbert and R. Preston, ‘Stop being so English’, in D. Gilbert, D. Matless and B. Short (eds), Geographies of British Modernity: Space and Society in the Twentieth Century, (Oxford: Blackwells RGS-IBG Research Series, 2003). 

I. Greener, M. Powell, N. Mills and S. Doheny, ‘The Governance of Health Policy in the United Kingdom’, in M. Bevir and F. Trentmann (eds), Governance, Citizens, and Consumers: Agency and Resistance in Contemporary Politics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), chapter 6.

L. Holloway, R. Cox, L. Venn, M. Kneafsey, E. Dowler and H. Tuomainen, ‘Food and Soil: Dirt, Cleanliness and Connecting Consumers to the Growing of their Food’, in B. Camplin and R. Cox (eds), Dirt: Mapping Geographies of Dirt, Purity and Cleanlinesss (London: I.B. Tauris, 2007).

L. Holloway and M. Kneafsey, ‘Producing-Consuming Food: Closeness, Connectedness and Rurality in Four ‘Alternative’ Food Networks’, in L. Holloway and M. Kneafsey (eds), Geographies of Rural Cultures and Societies (London: Ashgate, 2004), pp. 262-82.

L. Holloway, M. Kneafsey, R. Cox, L. Venn. E. Dowler and H. Tuomainen, ‘Beyond the ‘Alternative’ – Conventional Divide? Thinking Differently about Food Production – Consumption Relationships’, in D. Maye, L. Holloway and M. Kneafsey (eds), Alternative Food Geographies, (Elsevier: 2007).

P. Jackson, ‘Consumption in a Globalizing World’, in R.J. Johnston, P.J. Taylor and M.J. Watts (eds), Geographies of Global Change (Oxford, Basil Blackwell (second edn), 2002), pp. 283-95.

P. Jackson, ‘Identities’, in P. Cloke, P. Crang and M. Goodwin (eds), Introducing Human Geographies, second edition (London: Hodder Arnold, 2005), pp. 391-99.

P. Jackson, P. Russell and N. Ward, ‘The Appropriation of ‘Alternative’ Discourses by ‘Mainstream’ Food Retailers’, in D. Maye, L. Holloway and M. Kneafsey (eds), Alternative Food Geographies: Representation and Practice (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2007), pp. 309-30.

P. Jackson and N. Ward, ‘Connections and Responsibilities: The Moral Geographies of Sugar’, in A. Nützenadel and F. Trentmann (eds), Food and Globalization: Transnational Perspectives on Consumption, Markets and Politics in the Modern World (Oxford: Berg, 2007), chapter 13. 

S. Livingstone, ‘On the Relation between Audiences and Publics’, in S. Livingstone (ed.), Audiences and Publics: When Cultural Engagement Matters for the Public Sphere (Bristol: Intellect Press, 2005), pp. 17-41.

S. Livingstone, ‘In Defence of Privacy: Varieties of Publicness in the Individualised, Privatised Home’, in S. Livingstone (ed.), Audiences and Publics: When Cultural Engagement Matters for the Public Sphere (Bristol: Intellect Press, 2005), pp. 163-185.

A. Malpass, C. Barnett, N. Clarke and P. Cloke, ‘Problematizing Choice: Responsible Consumers and Sceptical Citizens’, in M. Bevir and F. Trentmann (eds), Governance, Citizens, and Consumers: Agency and Resistance in Contemporary Politics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), chapter 10.   

B. Morgan, ‘The Perils of Global-Local Dialogue and Consultation: the Case of Water in South Africa’, in N. Woods (ed.), Making Global Regulation Effective (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), chapter 8.

B. Morgan, ‘Social Protest against Privatization of Water: Forging Cosmopolitan
Citizenship?’, in M-C Cordonnier Seggier and J. Weeramantry (eds), Sustainable Justice: Reconciling International Economic, Environmental and Social Law (Martinus Nijhoff Press: 2005).

B. Morgan, ‘Emerging Global Water Welfarism: Access to Water, Unruly Consumers and Transnational Governance’, in J. Brewer and F. Trentmann (eds), Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives: Historical Trajectories, Transnational Exchanges (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006).   

B. Morgan, ‘Technocratic and Convivial Accountability’, in M. Dowdle (ed.), Public
Accountability (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).

B. Morgan, ‘Consuming without Paying: Stealing or Campaigning?  The Civic Implications of  Civil Disobedience around Access to Water’, in K. Soper and F. Trentmann (eds), Citizenship and Consumption (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007), chapter 5.

B. Morgan, ‘Reflections on Governance from an International Perspective’, in M. Bevir and F. Trentmann (eds), Governance, Citizens, and Consumers: Agency and Resistance in Contemporary Politics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), chapter 11.

M. Moskowitz, ‘Broadcasting Seeds on the American Landscape,’ in E. Brown, C. Gudis and M. Moskowitz (eds), Cultures of Commerce: Representation and American Business Culture (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

M. Moskowitz, ‘The Limits of Globalization? The Horticultural Trades in Postbellum
America’, in A. Nützenadel and F. Trentmann (eds), Food and Globalization: Transnational Perspectives on Consumption, Markets and Politics in the Modern World (Oxford: Berg, 2007), chapter 4. 

J. Newman, ‘Governance as Cultural Practice: Texts, Talk and the Struggle for Meaning’, in M. Bevir and F. Trentmann (eds), Governance, Citizens, and Consumers: Agency and Resistance in Contemporary Politics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), chapter 3. 

J. Newman and E. Vidler, ‘More than a Matter of Choice? Consumerism and the
Modernisation of Health Care’, in L. Bauld, K. Clarke and T. Maltby (eds), Social Policy Review 18 (Bristol: The Policy Press, 2006).

A. Nützenadel and F. Trentmann, ‘Introduction: Mapping Food and Globalisation’, in A. Nützenadel and F. Trentmann (eds), Food and Globalization: Transnational Perspectives on Consumption, Markets and Politics in the Modern World (Oxford: Berg, 2007), chapter 1. 

M. Redclift, ‘Chewing Gum: Mass Consumption and the ‘Shadow-lands’ of the Yucatan’, in John Brewer and Frank Trentmann (eds), Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives: Historical Trajectories, Transnational Exchanges (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006), chapter 7.

E. Shove and M. Pantzar, ‘Fossilization’, in O. Lofgren and R. Wilk (eds), Off the Edge: Experiments in Cultural Analysis (Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen: 2006).

K. Soper, ‘‘Alternative Hedonism’ and the Citizen-Consumer’, in K. Soper and F.
Trentmann (eds), Citizenship and Consumption (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007), chapter 12.

K. Soper and F. Trentmann, ‘Introduction’, in K. Soper and F. Trentmann (eds), Citizenship and Consumption (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007), chapter 1. 

D. Southerton, ‘The Temporal Organisation of Daily Life: Social Constraints, Composite Practices and Allocation’, in M. Pantzar and E. Shove (eds), Manufacturing Leisure: Innovations in Happiness, Well-being and Fun (Helsinki: National Consumer Research Centre, 2004).

D. Southerton, A. Warde and M. Hand, ‘The Limited Autonomy of the Consumer:
Implications for Sustainable Consumption’, in D. Southerton, H. Chappells, & B. Van Vliet (eds), ‘Sustainable Consumption: The Implications of Changing Infrastructures of Provision’, (London: Edward Elgar, 2004), pp 32-48.

D. Southerton, A. Warde, W. Olsen and S-L. Cheng, ‘Time Use Surveys and the Changing Organization of Everyday Life in UK, 1975-2000’, in M. Pantzar and E. Shove (eds), Manufacturing Leisure: Innovations in Happiness, Well-being and Fun (Helsinki: National Consumer Research Centre, 2004).

F. Trentmann, ‘Beyond Consumerism: New Historical Perspectives on Consumption’, reprinted in M. Hogg (ed.), Consumer Behaviour I: Research and Influences, (London: Sage, 2005), pp. 303-329.

F. Trentmann, ‘The Modern Genealogy of the Consumer: Meanings, Identities and Political Synapses’, in J. Brewer and F. Trentmann (eds), Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives: Historical Trajectories, Transnational Exchanges (Oxford and New York, Berg: 2006).

F. Trentmann, ‘Knowing Consumers – Histories, Identities, Practices’, in F. Trentmann (ed.), The Making of the Consumer: Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006), pp. 1-27.

F. Trentmann, ‘Consumption’, in J. Merriman and J. Winter (eds), Europe since 1914: Encyclopaedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction, Volume 2, (Detroit: Charles Scribners Sons, 2006), pp. 704-717.

F. Trentmann, ‘The Evolution of the Consumer: Meanings, Identities and Political Synapses Before the Age of Affluence’, in Sheldon Garon and Patricia L. Maclachlan (eds), The Ambivalent Consumer: Questioning Consumption in East Asia and the West (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006), pp. 21-44.

F. Trentmann, ‘Caring Consumers’, in Britain 2007 (Swindon: ESRC publications, 2007).

F. Trentmann, ‘Before “Fair Trade”: Empire, Free Trade, and the Moral Economies of Food in the Modern World’, in A. Nützenadel and F. Trentmann (eds), Food and Globalization: Transnational Perspectives on Consumption, Markets and Politics in the Modern World (Oxford: Berg, 2007), chapter 14. 

F. Trentmann and P. Maclachlan, ‘Civilising Markets: Traditions of Consumer Politics in Twentieth-Century Britain, Japan, and the United States’, in M. Bevir and F. Trentmann (eds), Markets in Historical Contexts: Ideas and Politics in the Modern World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

F. Trentmann and K. Soper, ‘Introduction’, in K. Soper and F. Trentmann (eds), Citizenship and Consumption (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007), chapter 1. 

F. Trentmann and V. Taylor, ‘From Users to Consumers: Water Politics in Nineteenth-Century London’, in F. Trentmann (ed.), The Making of the Consumer: Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006), pp. 53-73. 

E. Vidler and J. Clarke, ‘Creating Citizen-Consumers: New Labour and the Remaking of Public Services’, Public Policy and Administration, 20(2) (2005), pp. 19-37.

L. Whitworth, ‘Anticipating Affluence: Skill, Judgement and the Problems of Aesthetic Tutelage’, in L. Black & H. Pemberton (eds), An Affluent Society? Britain’s Post-War ‘Golden Age’ Revisited (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004).

L. Whitworth, ‘The Housewives Committee of the Council of Industrial Design: A Short-lived Experiment in Domestic Reconnoitring’, in E. Darling and L. Whitworth (eds), Women and the Making of Built Space in England, 1870-1940 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007).

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articles

S. Boden, ‘Dedicated Followers of Fashion? The Influence of Popular Culture on Children’s Social Identities,’ Media, Culture and Society, 28(2) (2006), pp. 289-298.

S. Boden, ‘Another Day, Another Demand: How Parents and Children Negotiate
Consumption Patterns,’ Sociological Research Online (2006).

C. Breward, ‘Fashion’s Front and Back: Rag Trade Cultures and Cultures of Consumption in Post-War London’, London Journal (Special Issue), 31(1) (2006).

N. Carrier, ‘Bundles of Choice: Variety and the Creation and Manipulation of Kenyan Khat’s Value’, Ethnos, 71(3) (2006).

N. Carrier, ‘The Need for Speed: Contrasting Time Frames in the Social Life of Kenyan khat’, Africa 75(4) 2005.

T.W. Chan and J.H. Goldthorpe, ‘Is There a Status Order in Contemporary British Society?’, European Sociological Review, 20(5) (2004), pp. 383-401.

T.W. Chan and John H. Goldthorpe, ‘The Social Stratification of Theatre, Dance and Cinema Attendance’, Cultural Trends, 14(3) (2005), pp. 193-212.

T.W. Chan and J.H. Goldthorpe, ‘Class and Status: The Con-ceptual Distinction and its Empirical Relevance’, American Sociological Review, 72(4) (2007), pp. 512–532.

T.W. Chan and J.H. Goldthorpe, ‘Social Status and News-paper Readership’, American Journal of Sociology, 112(4) (2007), pp. 1095–1134.

T.W. Chan and J.H. Goldthorpe, ‘Social Stratification and Cultural Consumption: Music in England’, European Sociological Review, 23(1) (2007), pp. 1–19.

T.W. Chan and J.H. Goldthorpe, ‘Social Stratification and Cultural Consumption: The Visual Arts in England’, Poetics, 35(2/3) (2007).

P. Church Gibson, ‘From Up-North to Up-West?: London On Screen, 1965-67’, London Journal (Special Issue), 31(1) (2006).

J. Clarke, ‘Consumers, Clients or Citizens? Politics, Policy and Practice in the Reform of Social Care’, European Societies, 8(3) (2006), pp. 433-442.

J. Clarke, ‘Unsettled Connections: Citizens, Consumers and the Reform of Public Services’, Journal of Consumer Culture, 7(2) (2007), pp. 159-178. 

N. Clarke, C. Barnett, P. Cloke and A. Malpass, ‘Globalising the Consumer: Doing Politics in an Ethical Register’, Political Geography, 26(3) (2007), pp. 231-249.

J. Clarke, N. Smith and E. Vidler, ‘The Indeterminacy of Choice: Political, Policy and Organisational Dilemmas’, Social Policy and Society, 5(3) (2006), pp. 1-10.

N. Couldry, ‘Culture and Citizenship: The Missing Link?’, European Journal of Cultural Studies, 9(3) (2006), pp. 321-339.

N. Couldry and A. Langer, ‘Media Consumption and the Future of Public Connection: Towards a Typology of the Dispersed Citizen’, in The Communication Review, 8(2) (2005), pp. 237-257.

N. Couldry and T. Markham, ‘Public Connection Through Media Consumption: Between Oversocialization and Desocialization?’, The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 608(1) (2006), pp. 251-269.

B. Edwards, ‘Swinging Boutiques and the Modern Store: Designing Shops for Post-War London’, London Journal (Special Issue), 31(1) (2006).

J. Gamble, ‘Multinational Retailers in China: Proliferating “McJobs” or Developing Skills?’, Journal of Management Studies, 43(7) (2006), pp. 1463-1490.

J. Gamble, ‘Introducing Western-style HRM Practices to China: Shopfloor Perceptions in a British Multinational’, Journal of World Business, 41(4) (2006), pp. 328-43.

J. Gamble, ‘The Rhetoric of the Consumer and Customer Control in China’, Work,
Employment & Society, 21(1) (2007), pp. 7-25.

D. Gilbert (guest editor), ‘Shopping Routes: Networks of Fashion Consumption in London’s West End 1945-79’, London Journal (Special Issue), 31(1) (2006).

D. Gilbert, ‘The Youngest Legend in History: Cultures of Consumption and the Mythologies of Swinging London’, London Journal (Special Issue), 31(1) (2006).

M. Hand, E. Shove and D. Southerton, ‘Explaining Showering: A Discussion of Material, Conventional and Temporal Dimensions of Practice’, Sociological Research Online (2005).

G. Hogg, A.W. Laing and T.J. Newholm, ‘Talking Together: Exploring Consumer
Communities and Healthcare’, Advances in Consumer Research, 31 (2004), pp. 67-74.

G. Hogg, A.W. Laing and D. Winkelman, ‘The Professional Service Encounter in the Age of the Internet’, Journal of Services Marketing, 17(5) (2003), pp. 476-494.

L. Holloway, R. Cox, L. Venn, M. Kneafsey, E. Dowler and H. Tuomainen, ‘Managing Sustainable Farmed Landscape through ‘Alternative’ Food Networks: A Case Study from Italy’, Geographical Journal, 172(3) (2006), pp. 219-229.

L. Holloway, M. Kneafsey, L. Venn, R. Cox, E. Dowler and H. Tuomainen, ‘Possible Food Economies: A Methodological Framework for Exploring Food Production-Consumption Relationships’, Sociologia Ruralis, 41(1) (2007), pp. 1-18.

M. Hyde and I.R. Jones, ‘The Long Shadow of Work - Does Time since Labour Market Exit Affect the Association between Socioeconomic Position and Health in a Post-Working Population’, Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 61(6) (2007), pp. 532-38.

M. Hyde, M. Evandrou, C. Gilleard, P. Higg, I.R. Jones, C. Victor and R.D. Wiggins, ‘Inequalities in Consumption Patterns in Later Life in Britain 1968-2001’, The Gerontologist, 1(46) (2006), pp. 371-372.

J. Ingram, E Shove and M Watson (2007) ‘Products and practices: selected concepts from science and technology studies and from social theories of consumption and practice’, Design Issues, 23 (2): 3-16

P. Jackson, ‘Local Consumption Cultures in a Globalizing World’, Transactions, Institute of British Geographers, 29 (2004), pp. 165-78.

P. Jackson, ‘The Eclipse of Urban Geography?’, Urban Geography 25 (2005), pp. 1-3.

P. Jackson, ‘Culture and Identity in Contemporary Britain’, Geographische RundschauInternational Edition, 2 (2006), pp.  44-48; also published as Kultur und Identität im heutigen Groβbritannien. Geographische Rundschau 58, 36-41 (trans. Klaus Zehner).

P. Jackson, ‚Thinking Geographically’, Geography 91 (2006), pp. 199-204.

P. Jackson and P. Russell, ‘From Farm to Fork: The ‘Food Miles’ Debate’, Primary
Geographer 55 (2004), pp. 25-27.

P. Jackson, P. Russell and N. Ward, ‘Mobilising the ‘Commodity Chain’ Concept in the Politics of Food and Farming’, Journal of Rural Studies, 22 (2006), pp. 129-41.

I.R. Jones, P. Higgs, M. Evandrou, C. Gilleard, M. Hyde, C. Victor and R.D. Wiggins, ‘Periodization and Consumer Society: An Overview of Consumption among Older People in Britain, 1963 -2001’, The Gerontologist, 1(46) (2006), pp. 371-372.

A. Klein, ‘Chewing it Over: Reviewing the Legal Status of Khat’, Drugs and Alcohol Today, 5(2) (July 2005).

A.W. Laing, G. Hogg and T.J. Newholm, ‘The Impact of the Internet on Professional Relationships: The Case of Health Care’, Service Industries Journal, 25(5) (2005), pp. 675-688.

A.W. Laing, T.J. Newholm and G. Hogg, ‘Crisis of Confidence: Re-narrating the Consumer-Professional Discourse’, Advances in Consumer Research, 32(20) (2005), pp. 514-522. 

J. Littler, C. Barnett and K. Soper, ‘Consumers: Agents of Change?’ Soundings, 31 (2005), pp. 147-160.

S. Livingstone, ‘The Challenge of Changing Audiences: Or, What is the Audience Researcher to do in the Internet Age?’, European Journal of Communication, 19(1) (2004), pp. 75-86.

S. Livingstone, ‘Mediating the Public/Private Boundary at Home: Children’s Use of the Internet for Privacy and Participation’, Journal of Media Practice, 6(1) (2005), pp. 41-51.

P. Lowe, T. Carroll and N. Ward, ‘Time for Rural Delivery?’ Town and Country Planning, 73 (2004), pp. 18-19.

B. Morgan, ‘The Regulatory Face of the Human Right to Water’, Journal of Water Law, 15 (2004), pp. 179-187.

B. Morgan, ‘Water: Frontier Markets and Cosmopolitan Activism’ Soundings: a Journal of Politics and Culture, Issue 28 on ‘The Frontier State’, November 2004, pp. 10-24.

B. Morgan, ‘Turning Off the Tap, Urban Water Service Delivery and the Social Construction of Global Administrative Law’, European Journal of International Law, 17 (2006), pp. 215-247.

B. Morgan, ‘The North-South Politics of Necessity: Regulating for Basic Rights Between National and International Levels’, Journal of Consumer Policy 29(4) (2006), pp. 465-487.

B. Morgan and F. Trentmann (eds), ‘The Politics of Necessity’, special issue of the Journal of Consumer Policy 29(4) (2006), pp. 345-353.

J. Morris, ‘Imprenditoria italiana in Gran Bretagna. Il consumo del caffè “stile italiano”’, Italia Contemporanea, December 2005.

J. Newman and E. Vidler, ‘Discriminating Customers, Responsible Patients, Empowered Users: Consumerism and the Modernisation of Health Care’, Journal of Social Policy, 35(2) (2006), pp. 193-209.

C. Pole, ‘Researching Children and Fashion: An Embodied Ethnography’, Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 14(1) (2007), pp. 67-84.

M. Redclift, ‘A Convulsed and Magic Country: Tourism and Resource Histories in the Mexican Caribbean’, Environment and History, 11(1) (2005), pp. 83-98.

M. Redclift and O. Forero, ‘Something to Chew On’, Field and Feast: The Magazine of Food, Agriculture and Health (USA: Summer 2005).

M. Redclift and O. Forero, ‘The Role of the Mexican State in the Development of Chicle Extraction in Yucatan, and the Continuing Importance of Coyotaje’, The Journal of Latin American Studies, 38(1) (2005), pp. 1-29.

E. Shove and M. Pantzar, ‘Fossilisation’, Ethnologia Europaea (Journal of European Ethnology), 356(1-2) (2005), pp. 59-63.

R. Simmons and J. Birchall, ‘A Joined-up Approach to User Involvement in Public Services’, Social Policy and Administration, 39(3) (2005).

K. Soper, ‘Counter-Consumerism in a New Age of War’, a review-commentary, Radical Philosophy, 135, Dec 2005-Jan 2006.

K. Soper, Interview (together with Clive Barnett) by Jo Littler, ‘Consumers: Agents of Change ?’, Soundings, 31 (2005), pp. 147-160.

K. Soper, ‘Counter-Consumerism in a New Age of War’, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism, 17(2) (2006), pp. 74-80.

K. Soper, ‘Conceptualizing Needs in the Context of Consumer Politics’, Journal of Consumer Policy, 29(4) (2006), pp. 355-372.

K. Soper, ‘Re-thinking the “Good Life”: The Citizenship Dimension of Consumer
Disaffection with Consumerism’, Journal of Consumer Culture, 7(2) (2007), pp. 205-229.

D. Southerton, ‘‘Squeezing Time’: Allocating Practices, Co-ordinating Networks and Scheduling Society’, Time & Society, 12(1) (2003), pp. 5-25.

D. Southerton and M. Tomlinson, ‘Pressed for Time: The Differential Impacts of a Time Squeeze’, Sociological Review, 53(2), 2005, pp. 215-39.

D. Southerton, ‘Analysing the Temporal Organisation of Daily Life: Social Constraints, Practices and their Allocation’, Sociology, 40(3) (2006), pp. 435-54.

D. Southerton, A. Warde, W. Olsen and S-L. Cheng, ‘The Changing Organization of Everyday Life in UK: Evidence from Time Use Surveys 1975-2000’, Office for National Statistics, Time Use Seminar: Analysis and use of the UK 2000 Time Use Survey (TUS) proceedings, (2004) www.statistics.gov.uk/events/tus/agenda.asp.

F. Trentmann, ‘Beyond Consumerism: New Historical Perspectives on Consumption’, Journal of Contemporary History, 39(3) (2004), pp. 373-401.   

F. Trentmann, ‘Before “Fair Trade”: Empire, Free Trade, and the Moral Economies of Food in the Modern World’, Environment and Planning D, 25 (2007).

F. Trentmann and D. Slater (eds), ‘Citizenship and Consumption’, Special issue of the Journal of Consumer Culture, 7(2) (2007).

F. Trentmann, ‘Citizenship and Consumption’, Journal of Consumer Culture, 7(2), pp. 147-158.

L. Venn, M. Kneafsey, L. Holloway, R. Cox, E. Dowler and H. Tuomainen, ‘Researching European ‘Alternative’ Food Networks: Some Methodological Considerations’, Area, 38(3), (2006), pp. 248-258.

N. Ward, A. Donaldson and P. Lowe, ‘Policy Framing and Learning the Lessons from the UK’s Food and Mouth Disease Crisis’, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 22 (2004), pp. 291-306.

N. Ward, P. Lowe and T. Carroll, ‘Rural Dilemma Remain’, Town and Country Planning, 73 (2004), pp. 342-3.

A. Warde, ‘La normalita del mangiare fuori’, (‘The normality of eating out’), Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia (special issue on ‘Sociology of Food’), 45(4) (2004), pp. 493-518.

A. Warde, ‘Consumption and the Theory of Practice’, Journal of Consumer Culture, 5(2) (2005), pp. 131-54. 

A. Warde, D. Southerton, W. Olsen and S-L Cheng, ‘The Changing Organization of Everyday Life in UK: Evidence from Time Use Surveys 1975-2000’, Time Use Seminar: Analysis and Use of the UK 2000 Time Use Survey, (Proceedings Office for National Statistics, 2004).

J. Whittle, ‘Housewives and Servants in Rural England, 1440-1650: Evidence of Women’s Work from Probate Documents’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 15(1) (2005), pp. 51-74.

L. Whitworth, ‘Inscribing Design on the Nation: The creators of the British Council of Industrial Design’, Business and Economic History On-Line, 3, 2005.

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the consumption bibliography

This bibliography lists studies on consumption in the social sciences and humanities. It is maintained by the Cultures of Consumption research programme. The bibliography incorporates Don Slater's original bibliography and has added recent books and articles. There are currently c.2000 items.

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