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research projects

Cultures of Consumption has funded 26 research projects.

Below is a list of project titles with their award holder. Click on the text to go to the project’s page, to access summaries, findings and links to events, outputs and web sites.

Most projects have now produced findings summary sheets. These can be accessed from individual project pages, or alternatively go directly to the findings by clicking onfindings button next to the project title below.


 

The Khat Nexus: Transnational Consumption in a Global Economy
Professor David Anderson, Oxford

 


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Governing the Subjects and Spaces of Ethical Consumption
Dr Clive Barnett, Open University

 

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Cultures of Consumption and Consumer Involvement in Public Services
Professor Johnston Birchall, Stirling

 


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Shopping Routes: Networks of Fashion Consumption in London's West End 1945-1979
Professor Christopher Breward, V & A, and Prof D Gilbert, Royal Holloway



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Social Status, Lifestyle and Cultural Consumption
Dr Tak Wing Chan, Oxford

 


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Creating Citizen-Consumers: Changing Relationships and Identifications
Professor John Clarke, Open University

 


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Media Consumption and the Future of Public Connection
Professor Nick Couldry, Goldsmiths

 


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Multinational retailers in the Asia Pacific
Dr Jos Gamble, Royal Holloway

 


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From Passive to Active Consumers in Britain 1963-1998
Dr Paul Higgs, UCL



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Manufacturing meaning along the food commodity chain
Professor Peter Jackson, Sheffield

 


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Re-connecting consumers, food and producers: Exploring 'alternative' networks
Dr Moira Kneafsey, Coventry

 


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Consuming Services in the Knowledge Society: The Internet and Consumer Culture
Prof Angus Laing, Glasgow



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Boomers and Beyond: Intergenerational Consumption and the Mature Imagination
Dr Rebecca Leach, Keele



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The Commodification of Water, Social Protest and Cosmopolitan Citizenship
Professor Bronwen Morgan, Bristol

 


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The Cappuccino Conquests: A Transnational History of Italian Coffee
Professor Jonathan Morris, Hertfordshire

 


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Seed Money: The Economics of Horticulture in Nineteenth-Century America
Dr Marina Moskowitz, Glasgow

 


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New Consumers? Children, Fashion and Consumption
Professor Christopher Pole, Leicester

 


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Modes of Consumption and Citizenship and the Welfare State in the UK
Professor Martin Powell, Birmingham

 


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Chewing Gum: transnational histories of consumption and production
Professor Michael Redclift, King's College

 


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Designing and Consuming: Objects, Practices and Processes
Professor Elizabeth Shove, Lancaster

 


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Banking on Housing; Spending the Home
Professor Susan Smith, Durham

 


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Alternative Hedonism and the Theory and Politics of Consumption
Professor Kate Soper, London Metropolitan

 


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Liquid Politics: The Historic Formation of the Water Consumer
Professor Frank Trentmann, Birkbeck, London

 


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The Diffusion of Cultures of Consumption: a comparative analysis
Professor Alan Warde, Manchester

 


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The Housewife in Early Modern Rural England: Gender, Markets and Consumption
Dr Jane Whittle, Exeter

 


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Towards a Participatory Consumer Democracy: Britain, 1937-1987
Dr Lesley Whitworth, Brighton


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