Vol. 5, No. 2, May 2004

ASA Consumption Sessions

Below are several sessions on consumption for ASA 2004. To be sure, there will be other sessions addressing consumption and popular culture not listed here. Check the program when it is completed.

Consumers and Consumption I

Organizer: George Ritzer, University of Maryland

Presider: Eva Illouz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Papers:

Paddy Dolan, Dublin Institute of Technology
"The Social Constitution of Consumer Culture and the Meaning of Luxury in Ireland 1958-73"

Jeremy Schulz, University of California-Berkeley
"Vehicle of the Self: The Social and Cultural Work of the Hummer"

Peter Beilharz, Latrobe University
"Consuming Nothing? The Consumption Club and the Romantic Critique of Modern Capitalism"

Robert Manning, Rochester Institute Tech
"Globalization and International Expansion of Consumer Debt: The Political Economy of Credit Card"

Discussant: George Ritzer, University of Maryland

 

Consumers and Consumption II

Organizer: George Ritzer, University of Maryland

Presider: George Ritzer, University of Maryland

Papers:

Wendy Wiedenhoft, John Carroll University
"The Politics of Consumption"

Sam Binkley, Emerson College
"Caring Text"

Christopher Andrews, University of Maryland
"Consumption as 'Contested Terrain': Bringing Consumption Back Into the Marxian Discourse"

Eva Illouz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"The Volatility of Stability: Emotion, Consumption, Imagination"

Discussant: Peter Beilharz, Latrobe University

 

Bridging Production and Consumption: Perspectives and Directions
(co-sponsored with the Economic Sociology Section)

Organizer: Daniel Thomas Cook, University of Illinois-Champaign

Presider: Allison Pugh, University of California-Berkeley

Papers:

Jane Zavica, University of California-Berkeley
"Regimes of Distribution: How States Regulate and Relate Production and Consumption"

Sharon Zukin, CUNY Graduate Center
"How to Produce Consumers: What Shopping Tells Us About Social Structure."

Daniel Thomas Cook, University of Illinois-Champaign
"Producing the Consuming Subject: Children, Food and the Authority of Agency"

Arlie R. Hochschild, University of California-Berkeley
"The Echo Chamber Between Market and Non-Market Life"

 

Special Thematic Session
University, Inc.: The Corporatization of Academic Life

Organizer and Presider:
Daniel Thomas Cook, University of Illinois-Champaign

Papers:
Gary Rhoades, University of Arizona
"Academic Capitalism in the New Economy"

Jason Owen-Smith, University of Michigan
"The Changing Institutional Environment for Public and Private Science'"

Cary Nelson, University of Illinois-Champaign
Empire, Corporatization, and Academic Freedom"

Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center
"What Do We Need to Turn the Situation Around?"

The corporatization of the university is proceeding apace.. The importation of business models and market approaches into higher education governance and research culture threaten the valued ability to engage in unfettered inquiry, free access and open forums for deliberation which historically have been definitive of university life.

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