Our Mission
The
organizing group for Consumer Studies Research
Network seeks to foster dialogue and debate
among those who are interested in and concerned
about the place of goods and commodities in
social life. These interests and concerns may
range from the poetics of micro/personal identity
formation to the identity politics of gendered,
raced and classed display, from historical work
on the rise of consumer culture to a critique
of Nike advertising, from investigations of typical
places of consumption to the study the dynamics
of globalization and urban areas. Individuals
affiliated with Consumer Studies Research Network
desire to bring to the fore, in their own ways,
the depths to which commodities and a market logic
have come to pervade virtually all forms of social
life and social interaction. The primary goal
is to enrich the exchanges of scholars interested
in making sense of this logic.
- Written
by Dan
Cook |