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The editors of The Globetrotting Shopaholic: Consumer Spaces, Products, and their Cultural Meanings invite submissions for an upcoming anthology on consumer/ commercial spaces and mass consumption. Interest from a major publishing house has already been expressed.
We welcome original, unpublished interdisciplinary contributions covering all aspects of consumer/commercial spaces and mass consumption. Topics of particular interest include:
*The consumer space of the American and non-American shopping mall
*The “geography” of consumption (i.e., the landscapes of consumerism)
*Transnational consumer/commercial spaces and mass consumption
*The marketing of branded merchandise (i.e. seasonal goods, body products, Hollywood merchandise, athletic goods, etc.)
*Themed consumer venues
*The Internet as a shopping space (e.g., how the internet has reshaped the traditional shopping experience)
*The need (and perceived need) of products
*The abundance of purchased goods/shopping centers
*“At-home” shopping (catalogue or television)
*Shopping in war zones (whether this is visiting a 7-11 in Baghdad, receiving requested goods from home, visiting local shops, or shopping online)
*Personal viewpoints on the shopping mall
Submission of 500-word abstracts, and one to two paragraph bios should be emailed to mallproject07@gmail.com by November 15, 2007. A tentative deadline for completed anthology chapters (of between 4000 and 8000 words) has been set for January 31, 2008. All abstracts/final submissions must be double spaced, submitted in Microsoft word as a .doc, and follow the Chicago Manual of Style format.
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