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Established in 2019, Bristol University Press’s youngest list publishes books that examine the social, political and economic implications of developments in science and technology.

It’s home to work that emerges from the field of science and technology studies, but we also welcome authors who identify with other intellectual traditions. Recent highlights have included Slow Computing, The Imposter as Social Theory, and The Mutant Project (longlisted for the prestigious Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction). We publish many of our titles on an individual basis while offering pathbreaking book series such as Dis-positions: Troubling Methods and Theory in STS, and Contemporary Issues in Science Communication.

We’re expanding our publishing programme and would be delighted to receive enquiries from prospective authors. We are especially interested in the following areas:

• Digital economies• Science, technology, medicine and health• Online culture• Technology and politics• New directions in theory, method and methodology

If you would like to discuss ideas for your next book, please contact our senior editor Paul Stevens: [email protected]


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Resisting AIAn Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence

Dan McQuillan, Goldsmiths, University of London

Artificial intelligence (AI) is pervasive yet its implications for society are still poorly understood. In this timely call to action, Dan McQuillan provides an analysis of AI’s technology and its political effects.

He traces the ways that AI resonates with contemporary political and social currents, from global austerity to the rise of the far right. Placing it alongside other modes of ordering, such as bureaucracy and speculative finance, he examines AI’s intensification of social crises and states of emergency. Most importantly, he offers the reader an alternative vision of an anti-fascist AI rooted in feminist and decolonial politics, addressing matters of care through mutual aid and solidarity. He invites us to play an active part in AI’s structural renewal through mechanisms like workers’ and people’s councils.

Academically rigorous, yet accessible to a socially engaged readership, this unique book will be of interest to all who wish to challenge the social logic of AI by reasserting the importance of the common good.

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Dis-positions: Troubling Methods and Theory in STSSeries Editors: Mike Michael, University of Exeter and Alex Wilkie, Goldsmiths, University of London This pioneering book series provides a platform for adventurous projects that redraw the disciplinary boundaries of Science and Technology Studies (STS).. Across the series, innovative conceptual frameworks will be extended, novel fields of inquiry will be identified and elaborated, and inventive methodological practices will be fostered and illustrated.

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Ecological ReparationRepair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict Dimitris Papadopoulos, University of Nottingham, Maddalena Tacchetti, University of Nottingham and Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, University of Warwick

How do we address the threat of social and environmental destruction while creating and maintaining liveable worlds?

Expert scholars of diverse backgrounds unpack the question in this research-oriented, real-world challenges-focused collection.

The authors explore practices of repairing damaged ecologies across different locations and geographies and propose innovative ideas for the conservation, mending, care and empowerment of human and non-human ecologies.

This groundbreaking collection establishes ecological reparation as an urgent and essential topic of public and scholarly debate.

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Dis-positions: Troubling Methods and Theory in STS

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Moral GravityStaying Together at the End of the World

David W. Hill, York St John University

Thinking about climate change can create a paralyzing sense of hopelessness. But what about the idea of a planetary exodus? Are high-tech solutions like colonising other planets just another distraction from taking real action?

This radical book unsettles how we think about taking responsibility for environmental catastrophe.

Going beyond both hopelessness and false hope in his development of a ‘sociology of the very worst’, Hill debunks the idea of a society that centres human beings and calls for us to take responsibility for sustaining a coexistence of animals, plants and minerals bound by one planet.

We would then find the centre of our moral gravity here together on earth.

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Disrupted UrbanismSituated Smart Initiatives in African Cities Nancy Odendaal, University of Cape Town

The smart city is often promoted as a top-down, technology-driven solution to complex urban issues. This book provides a much-needed alternative view, exploring how ‘home-grown’ digital disruption, driven and initiated by local actors, upends the mainstream corporate narrative. Drawing on original research conducted in a range of urban African settings, Odendaal shows how these initiatives can lead to meaningful change.

Robots and ImmigrantsWho Is Stealing Jobs? Kostas Maronitis, Leeds Trinity University and Denny Pencheva, University College London

This book scrutinises the narratives created around stealing jobs, opening new debates on the role of automation and migration policies. The authors reveal how the advances in AI and demands for constant flow of immigrant workers eradicate political and working rights, propagating fears over job theft and ownership.

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Being Human During COVID-19 Paul Martin, Warren Pearce, Stevienna de Saille and Kirsty Liddiard, University of Sheffield

“...a challenging read inviting readers to consider the breadth of people’s experiences during COVID-19 and is thought-provoking for post-pandemic times.” JENNY FISHER, MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY

This transdisciplinary collection engages with key issues of social exclusion, inequality, power and knowledge in the context of COVID-19. The authors reframe ongoing debates and highlight how they might lead to new ways of thinking and acting in relation to public policy, culture and the economy.

Experiments in Automating Immigration Systems Joe Tomlinson, University of York and Public Law Project and Jack Maxwell, Public Law Project

“Timely and important. Three detailed and persuasive case studies show the challenges for regulation and redress in this area.” OLIVER BUTLER, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

Exploring three different automated immigration systems, this book identifies a pattern of risky experimentation with automated systems in the Home Office.

Assessing the consequences of automation, the book argues that a precautionary approach is essential to ensuring that society benefits from government automation without exposing individuals to unacceptable risks.

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Gender Inequalities in Tech-Driven Research and InnovationLiving the Contradiction Gabriele Griffin, Uppsala University

ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

This volume centres on the lived experience of women working in tech-driven research and innovation areas in Nordic countries. The author examines how women negotiate living in the contradictory situation of a strongly embedded public equality rhetoric and the fact that, despite numerous programmes, they constitute a minority.

Women in Supramolecular ChemistryCollectively Crafting the Rhythms of Our Work and Lives in STEM Jennifer Leigh, University of Kent, et al

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Drawing on research carried out by the Women in Supramolecular Chemistry (WISC) network, this book sets out the extent to which women working in STEM face inequality and discrimination. The authors use approaches more commonly associated with social sciences, such as creative research methods, to shed light on the human experiences lying behind scientific research. They show how this approach helps make sense of difficult personal experiences and to create a culture of change.

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P O L I C Y P R E S S P O L I C Y & P R A C T I C E


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Slow ComputingWhy We Need Balanced Digital Lives

Rob Kitchin and Alistair Fraser, Maynooth University

“Convincingly demonstrates how finding the ‘right speed’ can enhance the pleasure of using digital technologies and bring agency and balance back into people’s lives.” DEBORAH LUPTON, UNSW SYDNEY

“No one knows yet where the digital acceleration of our lives will lead – this is a most powerful and illuminating plea for us citizens to take back control!” HARTMUT ROSA, FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA

“An important contribution to understanding our technological present and future. It handles complicated matters with a deft touch, without minimizing the scholarly arguments.” PAUL DOURISH, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

Digital technologies should be making life easier. And to a large degree they are, but they also accelerate our lives, affect our wellbeing and determine our life chances. Initially, the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown seemed to create new opportunities for people to practise ‘slow computing’, but it quickly became clear that it was as difficult, if not more so, than during normal times. Is it then possible to experience the joy and benefits of computing in a way that asserts individual and collective autonomy?

Drawing on the ideas of the ‘slow movement’, Slow Computing sets out numerous practical and political means to take back control and counter the more pernicious effects of living digital lives.


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The Mutant ProjectInside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans

Eben Kirksey, Deakin University

Longlisted for the Bailey Gifford Prize 2021

“A riveting jaunt to the cliff-edge of the future, where scientists, engineers, patients and biohackers struggle over the power, function and meaning of human gene editing. Empathetic, provocative and probing, it is a must-read.” ALONDRA NELSON, HAROLD F. LINDER PROFESSOR, INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY AND AUTHOR OF THE SOCIAL LIFE OF DNA

“In this thought-provoking and well-researched book, Eben Kirksey wrestles anew with the oldest of questions - what it means to be human, and what our relationship is with technology. There are no easy answers, but the journey could change your life.” MARK LYNAS, AUTHOR OF SEEDS OF SCIENCE: WHY WE GOT IT SO WRONG ON GMOS An anthropologist visits the frontiers of genetics, medicine and technology to ask: whose values are guiding gene-editing experiments, and what are the implications for humanity? At a conference in Hong Kong in November 2018, Dr He Jiankui announced that he had created the first genetically modified babies - twin girls named Lulu and Nana - sending shockwaves around the world. A year later, a Chinese court sentenced Dr He to three years in prison for ‘illegal medical practice’.

As scientists elsewhere start to catch up with China’s vast genetic research programme, gene editing is fuelling an innovation economy that threatens to widen racial and economic inequality. Fundamental questions about science, health and social justice are at stake. Who gets access to gene-editing technologies? As countries loosen regulations around the globe, can we shape research agendas to promote an ethical and fair society?

Professor Eben Kirksey takes us on a groundbreaking journey to meet the key scientists, lobbyists and entrepreneurs who are bringing cutting-edge genetic modification tools like CRISPR to your local clinic. He also ventures beyond the scientific echo chamber, talking to doctors, hackers, chronically ill patients, disabled scholars and activists who have alternative visions of a genetically modified future for humanity. The Mutant Project empowers us to ask the right questions, uncover the truth and navigate this new era of scientific enquiry.


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We Have Always Been CyborgsDigital Data, Gene Technologies and an Ethics of Transhumanism Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, John Cabot University

“… tackles some of the most challenging ethical issues currently discussed, including gene editing, digital data collection, and life extension ... Highly recommended …” N. KATHERINE HAYLES, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES

In this visionary new book, Stefan Sorgner explores the critical issues that link transhumanism with digitalization, gene technologies and ethics. He examines the history and meaning of transhumanism, offering insightful reflections on values, norms and utopia. This will be an important guide for readers interested in contemporary digital culture, gene ethics and policy making.

The Imposter as Social TheoryThinking with Gatecrashers, Cheats and Charlatans Edited by Steve Woolgar, Else Vogel and David Moats, Linköping University and Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, Uppsala University

“This book is for anybody bored to tears with the present, repetitive and dull, mainstream social theory.” BARBARA CZARNIAWSKA, UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG

The figure of the imposter can stir complicated emotions, from intrigue to suspicion and fear. But what insights can these troublesome figures provide into the social relations and cultural forms from which they emerge? Edited by expert scholars, this volume explores the question through a diverse range of empirical cases, including click farms, bikers, business leaders and fraudulent scientists.


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Data LivesHow Data Are Made and Shape Our World

Rob Kitchin, Maynooth University

“An anthropologist and a computer scientist walk into a café … Using diverse narrative styles, this book provides an engaging and important account of the choices and contexts that shape the data that increasingly impact our lives.” TERESA SCASSA, UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA

“A staggering volume that knowingly and skilfully upends established visions of our data lives. Surprising, unpredictable and inspiring. By breaking the patterns of commentary and mixing up the style of academic writing this will be a landmark and transformative text from one of the foremost thinkers in the field.” DAVID BEER, UNIVERSITY OF YORK

“Rob Kitchin’s appealing and innovative use of data stories propels the reader right into complex discussions about data creation and use - a thought-provoking and highly enjoyable read.” SANDRA COLLINS, NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND

How can we begin to grasp the scope and scale of our new data-rich world, and can we truly comprehend what is at stake? Rob Kitchin explores the intricacies of data creation and charts how data-driven technologies have become essential to how society, government and the economy work. Creatively blending scholarly analysis, biography and fiction, he demonstrates how data are shaped by social and political forces, and the extent to which they influence our daily lives. He reveals our data world to be one of potential danger, but also of hope.


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Social Media and the Automatic Production of Memory Classification, Ranking and the Sorting of the Past Ben Jacobsen and David Beer, University of York

“… an insightful analysis of what ‘technologies of memory’ look like in data-driven societies.” JOSÉ VAN DIJCK, UTRECHT UNIVERSITY

Social media platforms hold vast amounts of data about our lives. Content from the past is increasingly being presented in the form of ‘memories’. Critically exploring this new form of memory making, Jacobsen and Beer ask how social media are beginning to change the way we remember, and they consider important implications for the role of content in the algorithmically defined spaces of our lives.

The Political Economy of Digital MonopoliesContradictions and Alternatives to Data Commodification Paško Bilić, Institute for Development and International Relations, Toni Prug, independent researcher and Mislav Žitko, University of Zagreb

“… creatively applies Marxist theory to help us understand the role and significance of digital titans.” PETER GOLDING, NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY

As outrage over the socially damaging practices of digital companies intensifies, this book asks what it actually means to hold ‘monopoly’ in the tech world and how it affects the way companies operate. Combining new and traditional Marxian perspectives, the authors provide an in-depth analysis of how the major tech giants are produced, financialised and regulated.


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Media Technologies for Work and Play in East AsiaCritical Perspectives on Japan and the Two Koreas Edited by Micky Lee, Suffolk University Boston and Peichi Chung, Chinese University of Hong Kong

“… a timely, riveting page-turner…” TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION

The first comparative study of media technologies in Japan and the two Koreas, this book illuminates the peculiar geopolitical relations between the three countries through their development and use of digital technologies. Drawing from political economy, cultural studies and technology studies, this book is essential reading for researchers and students of media technologies and popular culture in North East Asia.

Algorithms and the End of PoliticsHow Technology Shapes 21st-Century American Life Scott Timcke, University of the West Indies at St Augustine

“In this provocative and illuminating book, Timcke shows how digital technologies impose capitalism upon every facet of our lives and undermine democracy.” VICTOR PICKARD, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

This timely study considers the growing impacts of digital technologies on populism in the US and beyond. Analysing the rise of digital devices, social networks and the technology giants behind them, the author provides new perspectives from digital and economic sociology to demonstrate the power of algorithms on political legitimism and everyday life.


The Pre-Crime SocietyCrime, Culture, and Control in the Ultramodern Age Edited by Bruce A. Arrigo, University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Brian G. Sellers, Eastern Michigan University “A wide-ranging, up-to-date and dynamic exploration of surveillance, power and social control in contemporary society.” MAJID YAR, LANCASTER UNIVERSITY We live in a pre-crime society, in which information technology strategies and techniques are used to achieve hyper-securitization. Exploring developing technologies, theories and institutional practices, this pioneering book explains how the pre-crime society operates in the ‘ultramodern’ age and proposes new directions in crime-control policy.

Responsibility Beyond GrowthA Case for Responsible Stagnation Stevienna de Saille, University of Sheffield, Fabien Medvecky, University of Otago, Michiel van Oudheusden, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Kevin Albertson, Manchester Metropolitan University, Effie Amanatidou, University of Manchester, Timothy Birabi, consultant and Mario Pansera, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona “… an invaluable contribution to current discussions on economics, innovation, growth and responsibility.” ANNA HENKEL, UNIVERSITY OF PASSAU Critically assessing growth-based models of innovation policy, this book sparks new debate on the role and nature of responsible innovation. Drawing on insights from economics, politics and science and technology studies, it proposes the concept of ‘responsible stagnation’ as an expansion of present discussions about growth, degrowth, responsibility and innovation within planetary limitations.

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The Age of Low TechTowards a Technologically Sustainable Civilization

Philippe Bihouix, independent author and engineer

“Without low tech, the fight against climate change, resource depletion, and species extinctions may fail. Philippe Bihouix provides evidence and argument from a range of industries and disciplines, and handles it with intelligence, ease and humour.” RICHARD HEINBERG, POST CARBON INSTITUTE

“Every engineer needs to read this book; the world can’t transition without us having a clear perspective.“ SUSAN KRUMDIECK, HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY

“Provides us with ideas on how to be prepared for a future that depends on a problem caused by the squandering in a few centuries of mineral resources accumulated over billions of years. Bihouix highlights how we can maintain civilization if we are more careful with how we use and recycle those resources.“ UGO BARDI, UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE

As we face a profound environmental crisis, we often think that it can be overcome by smart systems and green innovations, but this is risky since increasingly complex technological solutions rely on less abundant materials. A bestseller in France, this English-language edition introduces readers to an alternative perspective on our technological future. If ‘high’ technology will not solve global problems, Bihouix skilfully envisages a more resilient and sustainable society.


Anarchist CyberneticsControl and Communication in Radical Politics Thomas Swann, Loughborough University

“... a masterclass in organisation theory.” RUTH KINNA, LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY

Igniting a new field of scholarly inquiry, this book introduces cybernetic thinking to politics and organizational studies. It broadens the way in which anarchist activists and theorists think about organizations, while making a major contribution to the larger discussion of direct democracy.

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Organizations and Activism

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Organizations and ActivismSeries Editors: Daniel King, Nottingham Trent University and Martin Parker, University of Bristol From cooperatives to corporations, Occupy to Facebook, organizations shape our lives. They engage in politics as well as shaping the possible futures of policy making and social change. This groundbreaking new series offers critical examinations of organizations as sites of, or targets for, activism. For more information, see: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/organizations-and-activism

Guerilla DemocracyMobile Power and Revolution in the 21st Century Peter Bloom, University of Essex, Owain Smolović Jones and Jamie Woodcock, The Open University

“… an indispensable tool for finding hope and solidarity in digital activism’s myriad forms.” TITHI BHATTACHARYA, PURDUE UNIVERSITY

This book offers an in-depth analysis of platform-based radical movements from the online coalitions of voters and activists to the Deliveroo and Uber strikes. Combining cutting-edge theory with empirical research, the authors show how digital communication technologies revolutionise political and economic organising. The result is an invaluable contribution to the emerging literature on the relation of technology and society.

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Organizations and Activism

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Living DataMaking Sense of Health Biosensing Celia Roberts, Adrian Mackenzie and Maggie Mort, Lancaster University

“This is an original and timely text – an absolute pleasure to read and a unique contribution to the field.” EMMA RICH, UNIVERSITY OF BATH

As individuals increasingly seek ways of understanding data about their own bodies, this book critiques the claim that ‘more information’ equates to ‘better health’. Through case studies, the authors examine people’s changing relationships with traditional health systems as access to data shifts.

Science, Belief and SocietyInternational Perspectives on Religion, Non-Religion and the Public Understanding of Science Edited by Stephen H. Jones, Newman University, Tom Kaden, University of Bayreuth and Rebecca Catto, Kent State University

“…highly recommended for cross-cultural studies of public understanding of science...” PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE

This wide-ranging book critically reviews the ways in which religious and non-religious belief systems interact with scientific methods, traditions and theories. Contributors explore how, for some secularists, ‘science’ forms an important part of social identity. Others examine how many contemporary religious movements justify their beliefs by making a claim upon science.

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“I’m proud to see Bristol University Press launching this important new journal, which promises to address the most urgent complexities of global social challenges by drawing together accessible international scholarship across the disciplines to inform policy and practice.” PROFESSOR JUDITH SQUIRES, DEPUTY VICE-CHANCELLOR AND PROVOST, UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL How can we reimagine society in an era of climate change, pandemic, hunger, poverty, questions of racial, ethnic and gender justice and other pressing global societal challenges? Significant threats and dangers lie ahead of us, but so do opportunities, as new ways of being, thinking and doing emerge. This new, fully Open Access journal aims to facilitate thinking about these positive new trajectories and to become the journal of choice to address the complexities of global social challenges across disciplines and fields. It will be the first such journal to be based in the social sciences while also engaging with research from humanities, arts and STEM. Including marginalised, minority and indigenous world views, the journal will be an important home for research that contributes to the creation of alternative futures that acknowledge past injustices and are socially and environmentally just and sustaining.

Bristol University Press is delighted to announce its first fully Open Access journal.

Editors in Chief: Shenggen Fan, China Agricultural University, China, Julie Thompson Klein, Wayne State University, USA and Transdisciplinarity Lab ETH-Zurich, Switzerland, Siddharth Mallavarapu, Shiv Nadar University, India, Bronwen Morgan, UNSW Sydney, Australia, Sue Scott, Newcastle University, UK, David Simon, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

JOURNALS | 21

JOURNALS | 22

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• Cities and communities

• Climate change, energy and sustainability

• Conflict, security and peace

• Democracy, power and governance

• Education and learning

• Equality, diversity and inclusion

• The future of work, finance and the economy

• Health and wellbeing

• Hunger, food, water and shelter

• Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches

• Justice, law and human rights

• Life stages and intergenerationality

• Migration, mobilities and movement

• Poverty, inequality and social justice

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Work in the Global Economy Volume 2 | 2022, 2 issues Editors in Chief: Sian Moore, University of Greenwich, UK and Kirsty Newsome, University of Sheffield, UK Associate Editors: Donna Baines, University of British Columbia, Canada, Paul Brook, University of Leicester, UK, Rachel Cohen, City University of London, UK and Martin Krzywdzinski, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Germany Managing Editor: Abigail Marks, University of Stirling, UK Consulting Editor: Paul Thompson, University of Stirling, UK Published in association with the International Labour Process Conference

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Consumption and Society Volume 1 | Issue 1 | 2022 Co-Editors: Marlyne Sahakian, University of Geneva, Switzerland, Stefan Wahlen, University of Giessen, Germany and Daniel Welch, University of Manchester, UK

“Consumption is an increasingly important part of contemporary life, contributing to the most urgent problems facing the globe - climate destabilization, inequality and the failures of capitalism. Scholars’ previous paradigms for understanding consumption are increasingly inadequate, as we grapple with profound changes to how people live. This new journal will be an important outlet for the latest theory and research, and will help us to redefine the field.” PROFESSOR JULIET SCHOR, BOSTON COLLEGE, USA Consumption & Society publishes articles that advance understandings of consumption as a societal phenomenon, embedded in, and constitutive of, socioeconomic, material and cultural configurations. The field of consumption studies was an early touchstone for major debates on macrosocial change, especially around the issues of globalisation and aestheticisation. Following in this tradition, Consumption & Society aims to revitalise the relevance of consumption studies for the societal challenges of the 21st century. The journal contributes to debates on contested aspects of consumption, such as environmental impacts, digitalisation, the shifting balance of collective versus private consumption, commodification and inequalities.

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Online ISSN: 2752-8499Frequency: 2 issues per year

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