Principal Investigator and ATACD Chair: Professor Celia Lury
 
Department: Sociology Department

Key areas of expertise/interest: sociology of culture; branding, markets and the mediation of the economy; intellectual property; feminist theory; innovation in sociological methods.

Publications:

Global Culture Industry: The Mediation of Things, with S. Lash, Polity, 2007.

Inventive Life: Towards the New Vitalism, edited with M. Fraser and S. Kember, Sage, 2006.

Branding: the Logos of the Cultural Economy, Routledge,2004.

Global Nature, Global Culture, with S. Franklin and J. Stacey, Sage, 2000.

Transformations: Thinking Through Feminism, edited with S. Ahmed, J. Kilby, M. McNeil and B. Skeggs, Routledge, 2000.

Feminism and Autobiography: Texts, Theories, Methods, edited with T. Cosslett and P. Summerfield, Routledge, 2000.

Prosthetic Culture: Photography, Memory and Identity, Routledge, 1998.

Consumer Culture, Polity Press and Rutgers Press, 1996. Reprinted, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002. Translated into Indonesian and Chinese.

Cultural Rights: Technology, Legality and Personality, Routledge, 1993.

Off-Centre: Feminism and Cultural Studies, edited with S. Franklin and J. Stacey, Harper Collins Academic, 1991; reprinted 2005.