Consumer Culture Theory Workshop: Updated call

5th February 2013

Updated call for a workshop that follows the Consumer Culture Theory Conference; deadline for submissions March 1, 2013 Read More

New Post: 3 Year Fixed Term Lecturer in Sociology

18th January 2013

Applications for a full time, 3 year fixed term lecturer at the Open University are invited, particularly from those who have teaching and research experience in research methods, especially quantitative methods. Read More

New Post: CRESC Research Associate

17th January 2013

New research post working in CRESC with John Law on the Social Life of Methods Read More

New in Economy and Society: Metamorphoses of credit: pastiche production and the ordering of mass payment behavior

9th January 2013

A new article by Daniel Seabra Lopes, highlighting the interplay between innovation and imitation in markets, drawing on an ethnographic case-study of retail credit services Read More

Brazilian Gypsies as financial entrepreneurs

7th January 2013

Highlighting a PhD thesis by anthropologist Martin Fotta on the credit networks deployed by Calon Gypsies in Brazil Read More

Consumption Markets & Culture included in SSCI

3rd January 2013

CMC has been accepted for inclusion in the Social Sciences Citation Index from volume 13 (2010), with its first impact factor due in the 2012 Journal Citation Reports. Read More