ESA Research Networks
Call for papers
ESA Conference in Nicholas Copernicus University in Torun, Poland , September 9 – 12, 2005We are happy to invite you to the ESA conference in Torun, Poland, September 9 – 12, 2005. This call for paper concerns the research network on sociology of consumption. Our workshop will deal with general theoretical, methodological and empirical issues in the sociology of consumption. You are free to develop papers within the broad field of consumption research. However, we will encourage consumer sociologists to take part in the scientific and political discussion about:
The conference commences at 3.00pm on Friday 9th September and ends at 8.00pm on Monday 12th September.
The deadline for receipt of abstracts by Research Network is 15th February 2005.
Abstracts MUST include:
Abstracts should only be sent to the co-ordinator and not to the Local Conference Organisers. Mail to Eivind.sto@sifo.no, +47 22 04 35 40.
Important deadlines
15 February 2005 Deadline for receipt of abstracts by Research Network
31 March 2005 Decisions on acceptance of abstracts notified coordinator
31 may 2005 Earlybird conference registration closes
15 July 2005 Final date for registration by paper givers, otherwise paper will be withdrawn from the conference programme
Eivind Stø
Coordinator of the research network on sociology of consumption
SIFO
P.O Box 4682 Nydalen
0405 Oslo
Norway
Sociology of Consumption Research
Network
During the last five years
consumption has received increasing attention from sociologists. It has been realized that
consumption does not only offer a proper way to approach the society as a whole but also
its varying aspects. The way of life, fashion, social identity, social control and
politics, body, historical epoch (or Zeitgeist), among others, have been central
concerns related to consumption in sociological studies. This variety of issues has also
been reflected within congresses on the ecology of consumption.
There have been four
international congresses on the sociology of consumption. The first was arranged in 1989
in Oslo, Norway (see P.Otnes (ed.), The Sociology of Consumption). The majority of
the participants were from the Nordic Countries, England, France, Australia and USA. The
next congress took place in 1991 in Helsinki, Finland (participants from the Nordic
countries, England, USA, France and Germany). Next, there was a workshop on the themes of
the sociology of consumption and material culture in 1992 in York, England (participants
from the Nordic countries, England, Austria and the Netherlands). The latest congress on
the sociology of consumption again took place in Helsinki, Finland. It was perhaps the
until now largest congress and it covered several important topics within the sociology of
consumption.
At the Helsinki congress the
question of how to continue the congress nexus was discussed. The general opinion was to
stabilize a continuity of approach under uncertain economic circumstances by asking the
European Sociological Association about the establishment of a Research Network on the
Sociology of Consumption.
An e-mail bulletin board for
the network now exists. It can be joined by contacting: mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk and sending the command: join
esa-consumption yourfirstname yourlastname
Pictures: closing dinner at the Bergen meeting
Program
of the Bergen meeting, August 2002
Program of the Helsinki meeting,
August 2001
Coordinators
Eivind Stö (Coordinator)
SIFO
1324 Lysaker,
Norway
Fax: +47 67531948
Jukka Gronow
Jukka.gronow@helsinki.fi
Kaj Ilmonen
University of Jyväskylä
Department of Social Sciences
P.O. Box 35 F-40351
Jyväskylä, Finland
tel: +358 41 602 922
Fax: +358 41 603101
e-mail: ilmonen@dodo.jyu.fi
Drago Kos
Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Ljubljana
Kardeljeva pl 5
61000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
tel: +386 61 1681461
Fax: +386 61 1683421
Alan Warde
Department of Sociology
Lancaster University
Lancaster,
United Kingdom
e-mail: a.warde@lancaster.ac.uk