Cosmetic Surgery

Surgery for breakfast

31st October 2013

Hannah Bradby on the uptake of increasingly invasive plastic surgery procedures and how their meaning is shifting Read More

ETB

What’s in a smile? Oral health, consumption and technology

28th October 2013

Drawing on recent research, Simon Carter, Judy Green and Nicki Thorogood examine the consequences of the increasing commodification of the toothbrush Read More

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Plastic economies

3rd October 2013

Gay Hawkins on Accumulation: The Material Politics of Plastic, a new collection co-edited with Jennifer Gabrys and Mike Michael Read More

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Saving public money: The new moral economy of recycling

26th September 2013

Katy Wheeler on the changing moral economy of recycling and the effects of different systems of recycling provision Read More

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Daisy goes to market

14th June 2012

Keith Spiller on how animals and pictures of animals may be helping to reconnect consumers with what they consume Read More

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Street Markets: the forgotten sites of commerce, innovation and connection

15th May 2012

Sophie Watson on how street markets are sites for not only trading, but also the production of publics and global socio-economic networks Read More

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Elitism won’t hold back the food revolution

11th April 2012

With interest in the sociology of food increasing, Geoff Andrews explains how assumptions of ‘fine dining’ are being disrupted Read More

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Materials and devices of the public

2nd March 2012

Noortje Marres and Javier Lezaun highlight a recent special section of Economy and Society exploring the composition of (materially entangled) publics, while also looking at the potential for intersections with consumer market studies Read More

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