1. ‘Introduction: Cultural Studies and Anti-Consumerism: A Critical Encounter’ Jo Littler (Middlesex University, UK) and Sam Binkley (Emerson College, US)
2. ‘Young Women and Consumer Culture: An Intervention’ Angela McRobbie (Goldsmiths College, UK) 3. ‘Against the commodification of everything: Anti-consumerist cultural studies in the age of ecological crisis’ Jeremy Gilbert (University of East London, UK)4. ‘Alternative Hedonism, Cultural Theory and the Role of Aesthetic Revisioning’ Kate Soper (London Metropolitan University, UK)
5. ‘Tackling Turbo Consumption: An interview’ Juliet Schor (Boston College, US) and Jo Littler (Middlesex University, UK)
6. ‘Liquid Consumption: Anti-Consumerism and the Fetishized De-Fetishization of Commodities’ Sam Binkley
7. ‘The elusive subjects of neoliberalism: Beyond the analytics of governmentality’ Clive Barnett (Open University, UK), Nick Clarke (University of Southampton), UK Paul Cloke (University of Exeter, UK) and Alice Malpass (University of Bristol, UK)
8. ‘Consuming the Campesino: Fair Trade Marketing between Recognition and Romantic Commodification’ Matthias Zick Varul (University of Exeter, UK)9. ‘Alternative realities: downshifting narratives in contemporary lifestyle television’ Lyn Thomas (London Metropolitan University, UK)
10. 'Fourth worlds and neo-Fordism: American Apparel and the cultural economy of consumer anxiety’ Jo Littler (Middlesex University, UK) and Liz Moor (Goldsmiths College, UK),‘
11. ‘Consuming Authenticity: From Outposts of Difference to Means of Exclusion’ Sharon Zukin (CUNY, US)
12. ‘Fashioning Social Justice through Political Consumerism, Capitalism, and the Internet' Michele Micheletti (Karlstad University, Sweden) and Dietlind Stolle (McGill University, Canada)
13. ‘The Quandaries of Consumer-Based Labor Activism: A Low-Wage Case Study’ Andrew Ross (New York University, US)
Biography
Sam Binkley is Associate Professor of Sociology at Emerson College, USA. He is author of Getting Loose: Lifestyle Consumption in the 1970s (2007) and is currently working on a book on neoliberalism and happiness.
Jo Littler is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Middlesex University, UK. She is co-editor (with Roshi Naidoo) of The Politics of Heritage: The Legacies of ‘Race’ (2005) and author of Radical Consumption? Shopping for Change in Contemporary Culture (2009).
