Category: Publication Opportunities

  • Sociological Perspectives Special Issue – Civic Responses to Environmental Issues: How Culture Matters

    Sociological Perspectives Special Issue: Civic Responses to Environmental Issues: How Culture Matters Guest editors: Emily Huddart Kennedy, Dept of Sociology, University of British Columbia Josée Johnston, Dept. of Sociology, University of Toronto Co-Editors of Sociological Perspectives: Matthew Carlson, Lindsey Wilkinson,  Hyeyoung Woo (Portland State University) Managing Editor: Elizabeth Withers (Portland State University) Sociological Perspectives is…

  • CFP for Feminist Food Studies Edited Volume

    EDITED COLLECTION: CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FEMINIST FOOD STUDIES: EXPLORING INTERSECTIONALITY What might a feminist, intersectional analysis bring to food studies? Intersectionality (Crenshaw 1989; hooks, 1992) pushes food scholars, activists, students, and community members to situate interconnected social identities such as gender, race/ethnicity, social class, age, body size, able-bodiedness, sexual identity and difference as these overlap…

  • Accepting Submissions for Journal of Marketing Management

    Accepting Submissions for Journal of Marketing Management

    The Journal of Marketing Management is accepting submissions for a special issue titled “Design, Consumption, and Marketing.” This special issue welcomes papers from different perspectives on the interrelationship between design, marketing and consumption, and encourages approaches from different theoretical perspectives including actor network theory, consumer culture theory, critical approaches, practice theory, marketing strategy, new product…

  • ASA to Launch New General Open Access Journal in 2014

    ASA to Launch New General Open Access Journal in 2014

    The ASA is pleased to announce that it will launch a new sociology open access journal in 2014. The journal will welcome scholarly articles in any area of sociology, with authors retaining copyright, and will be freely available to all interested readers. Click here for more information about this exciting initiative.

  • New Website of Interest, Systems of Exchange, Seeking Contributions

    New Website of Interest, Systems of Exchange, Seeking Contributions

    Nicole Biggart and Kelsey Meagher invite researchers and students  to check out and contribute to a web resource that includes theoretical and empirical material on consumption and exchange.  The Systems of Exchange website describes a typology of types of exchange systems and examples of the exchange of goods and services including solar panels, water, excess clothing…

  • Ecologies of Consumption: Cultures of food, Hunger and Appetite

    Ecologies of Consumption: Cultures of food, Hunger and Appetite

    Ecologies of Consumption: Cultures of Food, Hunger and Appetite General Editor: Kyla Wazana Tompkins, Pomona College | kyla.tompkins@pomona.edu Ecologies of Consumption will publish interdisciplinary scholarship in food studies, with particular attention to work that expands the boundaries of the field. We are interested in research that interrogates the relationship between production and consumption, as well as…