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5, No. 1, December 2003
Announcements
Call for
Papers and Reviewers for
special issue of Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research
(Sage). "Children and Global, Commercial Culture." Dan Cook. University
of Illinois, Guest Editor. Special emphasis on non-Western childhoods.
Deadline: April 15, 2004. For full Call for Papers either contact
Dan Cook directly at dtcook@uiuc.edu,
or locate his page on the
departmental website (where there is a link).
Lehman
Conference on Hip-Hop The Bronx is widely recognized as being
the birthplace of a cultural form, which has become global in
scale. This conference, planned for Lehman College in Bronx, NY,
will allow for an interdisciplinary and sociocultural examination
of hip-hop, and will provide an opportunity for extensive dialogue
between theorists and practitioners. In addition, the conference
will highlight the role of the Bronx and its people in the development
of this cultural practice. Conference proposed date to be announced.
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Panel
Themes (proposed) include: the history of hip-hop; race, class,
gender and hip-hop; visual representation of black women in rap
videos; queer rappers performing straightness; global hip-hop;
commercialization/commodification; ownership and cultural consumption
of hip-hop. Contact Tom Conroy, Sociology-Lehman College. .
In collaboration
with LSU faculty, Drs.. Leonard Moore and Louis Harrison
Jr. and the Robeson Center at Michigan, the symposium "Race, Sport
& Hip Hop in the New Millennium" will be available on video this
fall and winter terms. There were six papers/research presentations.
Costs will be $75.00 for institutions and $50.00 for individuals.
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Also, "Behind
the Scenes: Jewish American and African-American Mobility Patterns
in Sport" will be available this winter term. The documentary
is approximately 30 minutes. Due to the copyright process, no
sales at this point or free distribution. Contact Carlton Keith
Harrison if interested. .
Stay
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and consumer culture. Published just over once a year, it is sold
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Contexts
Magazine: The American Sociological Association has recently
launched Contexts, a newmagazine under the leadership of
Claude S. Fischer, Professor of Sociology at University of California
at Berkeley The magazine is soliciting contributions for feature
articles. Though Contexts is peer-reviewed, it operates
like a magazine. Rather than reviewing full-length academic articles,
the magazine solicits short proposals for review before asking
authors to write full-length feature pieces. If you are interested
in contributing a feature article to the magazine, please take
a look at the
guidelines for submission. .
Graduate student editors write "Discoveries," which are short
summaries of just published or about-to-be published sociological
work so if you have an article that you think might be a candidate
for a Discovery, please contact Nalinia
Kotamrju Contexts also presents original, provocative
photographs and illustrations that enhance understanding of social
life.
Syllabi
and Teaching Resources for Teaching the Sociology of Consumption
Compiled and Edited by: George Ritzer, University of Maryland;
Todd Stillman, University of Maryland; Meghan E. Rich, American
Sociological Association .
A brand
new set of teaching materials related to consumers, commodities,
and consumption, which includes an essay on teaching about consumption
by George Ritzer, 21 syllabi from the most prominent scholars
in the field, assignments, essays, and exams, and essential reading
lists. Topics include: Marketing and Consumer Culture;
Sociology of Popular Culture; McDonaldization; Social Theories
of Consumption; Shopping Mall Society; Consumer Culture in Modern
Europe; Urban Leisure, Consumption and Culture; International
Consumer Policy, and Consumer Behavior. 216 pp., 2002. $16.00
for members and $20.00 for nonmembers. All orders must be prepaid
by either check or credit card. Send orders to: ASA Customer Service
Department, 1307 New York Ave. NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20005.
To order with a Visa or Mastercard, call (202) 383-9005 X389;
You may also order with a credit card online at www.asanet.org.
Cultural
Studies<->Critical Methodologies, a new interdisciplinary
journal by Sage Publications invites manuscript submissions.
CS<->CM
is an interdisciplinary quarterly publication drawing from those
scholarly traditions in the social sciences and the humanities
which are premised on a critical, performance-based cultural studies
agenda. Preference is given to experimental, risk-taking manuscripts
which are at the intersection of interpretive theory, critical
methodology, culture, media, history, biography and social structure.
The journal
publishes peer- reviewed research articles, critical analyses
of contemporary media representations, autoethnography, poetry,
and creative non-fiction. It provides an explicit forum for the
intersections of cultural studies, critical interpretive research
methodologies, and cultural critique. .
For details
on submitting manuscripts, contact Norman K. Denzin, Institute
of Communications Research, 228 Gregory Hall 810 South Wright
Street, University of Illinois, Urbana, Il 61801-3645; tel: 1-217-
333-0795; fax: 1-217-244-9580 e-mail: n-denzin@uiuc.edu.
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Journal
of Consumer Culture (Sage). Editors: George Ritzer, University
of Maryland; Don Slater, Goldsmiths College, University of London.
The Journal of Consumer Culture is a major new journal
designed to support and promote the dynamic expansion in interdisciplinary
research on consumption and consumer culture. Global in perspective
and drawing on both theory and empirical research, the journal
reflects the need to engage critically with modern consumer culture
and to understand its central role in contemporary social processes.
Five copies
of the manuscript should be submitted, typed, double-spaced on
one side of page only. This should be accompanied by a disk with
the file in Word or WordPerfect. The length should not normally
exceed 8000 words. Each submission will be reviewed anonymously
by at least two referees. The Journal uses the Harvard
system of referencing with the author's name and date in the text
and a full bibliography in alphabetical order at the end of the
article.
Contributions
should be sent to: George Ritzer, Department of Sociology, University
of Maryland-College Park, College Park, MD 20742 USA; email: ritzer@socy.umd.edu;
or Don Slater, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics
Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE; Tel: +44 (020) 7849 4653; Fax:
+44 (020) 7955 7405; d.slater@lse.ac.uk.
Sage Publications
Ltd., 6 Bonhill Street, London, EC2A 4PU, UK; email: Subscription@sagepub.co.uk;
Tel: +44 (0) 171 330 1266; Fax: +44 (0) 171 374 8741. www.sagepub.co.uk.
Consumption,
Markets and Culture (CMC) invites articles on a variety of
topics on consumption and markets from different perspectives.
We publish theoretical, and empirical papers as well as essays,
poems, and photographs that deal with the subject matter critically
and thoughtfully. Our editorial review board is comprised of scholars
from various social science disciplines, humanities and management.
Previous contributors to our journal similarly represent different
disciplines. If you have papers that have not been fully developed,
you can submit them for informal review and comments so they will
not go through an unnecessarily painful review process. Upon receiving
our comments, you may submit the completed papers for a more formal
review. Interested authors may contact either of us, Editors-in-Chief:
Alladi Venkatesh, 3200 Berkeley Place, University of California,
Irvine, CA 92697; avenke@uci.edu;
A. Fuat Firat, Arizona State University West, School of Management,
4701 West Thunderbird Road, Phoenix, AZ 85069-7100; fuat.firat@asu.edu
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