Mike Featherstone
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583948 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mike Featherstone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mike |
| FAMILY NAME | Featherstone |
| SIGNATURE | FEATHERSTONE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nottingham Trent University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 78 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1855 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 75 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 18 |
The Public Sphere, the Post-University and the Scholarly Apparatus
This introduction contextualizes a set of papers, which originated from the Theory, Culture & Society Summer School, that explore the connections between the public sphere, the post-university and the scholarly apparatus. The impetus was the consideration of Habermas's recent writings on the structural changes in the public sphere, along with his concerns about the mediating role of the university and its capacity to act as a specialized internal…
Mary Douglas on Purity and Danger
This interview with Mary Douglas took place at Lancaster University in the Religious Studies Department. The main focus of the interview was her recently published book, Purity and Danger, which had already become a classic of British anthropology. The questions and answers ranged mainly over the differences between the physical body, representations of the body, the body as a classificatory system, and social constructivism. Douglas's early acad…
Le flâneur, la ville et la vie publique virtuelle
Whither Globalization? An Interview with Roland Robertson
In this interview to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Theory, Culture & Society special issue on Global Culture, Roland Robertson reflects on his long involvement as one of the major theorists of globalization. He recounts how in his early years as a sociologist there was strong resistance to thinking beyond the nation-state society. He comments on the emergence of the field of transdisciplinary global studies, the concern with global cult…
Problematizing the Global
This paper serves as an introduction to the special section on Global Culture Revisited which commemorates the 30th anniversary of the publication of the 1990 Global Culture special issue. It examines the development of interest in the various strands of globalization and the question of whether there can be a global culture. The paper discusses the emergence of alternative global histories and the problematization of global knowledge. It examine…
Olympic Games in Japan and East Asia
This is the Introduction to the special issue entitled "The Olympic Games in Japan and East Asia: Images and Legacies.”
Societal value formation and the value of life
This article explores the formation of values on individual, cultural, societal, civilizational and epochal levels and discusses the carriers of values, symbolic hierarchies and future prospects. It demonstrates the continued conceptual and time-diagnostic usefulness of Georg Simmel's sociological approach to values and argues that his Lebensphilosophie ('philosophy of life') offers a platform for dealing with modernity's contingencies and ambigu…
Re-visioning Body & Society
Body, Image and Affect in Consumer Culture
This article is concerned with the relationship between body, image and affect within consumer culture. Body image is generally understood as a mental image of the body as it appears to others. It is often assumed in consumer culture that people attend to their body image in an instrumental manner, as status and social acceptability depend on how a person looks. This view is based on popular physiognomic assumptions that the body, especially the …
Occidentalism
This article introduces the special section on the contribution of Jack Goody, which focuses on The Theft of History (2006). Goody attacks the notion of a radical division between Europe and Asia, which has become built into the commonsense academic wisdom and categorical apparatus of the social sciences and humanities. Eurocentrism is a constant target as he scrutinizes and finds wanting the claims of the West to have invented modern science, cu…
Ubiquitous Media
Common Culture or Uncommon Cultures
Consumer Culture and Postmodernism
"If a society is postmodern, it must prioritize the consumption of resources in everyday life. In this view, mass media advertising and market dynamics lead us to a constant search for new fashions, new styles, new sensations, and new experiences. In this volume, Featherstone examines the idea of a postmodern society. He explores the roots of consumer culture, how it is defined and differentiated and the extent to which it represents the arrival …
Problematizing Global Knowledge Critical Commentaries
Problematizing Global Knowledge and the New Encyclopaedia Project
Modernity
Whilst presenting a number of features that have been put forward to characterize modernity as a way of life and a social system, this entry suggests a dissident genealogy that reveals a hidden history of continuities and alternatives. It thereby problematizes the norms about periodization and the assumptions about the elaboration of a logos that underlie the concept of the modern. This approach to modernity as a complex of processes, institution…
Genealogies of the Global
The term global suggests all-inclusiveness and brings to mind connectivity, a notion that gained a boost from Marshall McLuhan's reference to the mass-mediated 'global village'. In the past decade it has rapidly become part of the everyday vocabulary not only of academics and business people, but also has circulated widely in the media in various parts of the world. There have also been the beginnings of political movements against globalization …
Body Image/Body without Image
Archive
The archive is the place for the storage of documents and records. With the emergence of the modern state, it became the storehouse for the material from which national memories were constructed. Archives also housed the proliferation of files and case histories as populations were subjected to disciplinary power and surveillance. Behind all scholarly research stands the archive. The ultimate plausibility of a piece of research depends on the gro…
Automobilities
Automobilities (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)
"Automobilities presents one of the first and most wide-ranging examinations of the car and its promise of autonomy and mobility. Drawing on rich empirical detail, from ethnographies of office work on the motorway to the importance of the car in French cultural theory, the contributions demonstrate just how significant have been the economic, technological, social and political consequences of a pervasive and accelerating culture of the car."--Ja…
Automobilities
This wide-ranging introduction to the special issue on Automobilities examines various dimensions of the automobile system and car cultures. In its broadest sense we can think of many automobilities - modes of autonomous, self-directed movement. It can be argued that there are many different car cultures and autoscapes which operate around the world, which cannot be seen as making driving (including freeways, motorways and autobahns) a uniform ex…
Images of Aging
1. Introduction Mike Featherstone and Andy Wernick Historical and Comparative Perspectives 2. Images of old America, 1790-1970 - A Vision and a Revision Andy Achenbaum, University of Michigan 3. Images of Positive Ageing: A Case Study of Retirement Choice Magazine Mike Featherstone and Mike Hepworth, University of Aberdeen 4. The Status and the Image of the Elderly in Japan: Understanding the Paternalistic Ideology Shuichi Wada, Waseda University…
Recognition and Difference
Recognition and Difference
This timely and insightful book examines questions of politics and identity in the age of multicultures. The book draws together the contributions of leading international academics
The Body
Preface - Mike Featherstone, Mike Hepworth and Bryan S Turner Recent Developments in the Theory of the Body - Bryan S Turner Bringing Bodies Back In - Arthur Frank On Human Beings and Their Emotions - Norbert Elias a Process-Sociological Essay On the Civilizing of Appetite - Stephen Mennell The Discourse of Diet - Bryan S Turner The Body in Consumer Culture - Mike Featherstone The Midlifestyle of 'George and Lynne' - Mike Featherstone and Mike He…
The Body in Consumer Culture
Lifestyle and Consumer Culture
Automobilities
This wide-ranging introduction to the special issue on Automobilities examines various dimensions of the automobile system and car cultures. In its broadest sense we can think of many automobilities - modes of autonomous, self-directed movement. It can be argued that there are many different car cultures and autoscapes which operate around the world, which cannot be seen as making driving (including freeways, motorways and autobahns) a uniform ex…
Body, Image and Affect in Consumer Culture
This article is concerned with the relationship between body, image and affect within consumer culture. Body image is generally understood as a mental image of the body as it appears to others. It is often assumed in consumer culture that people attend to their body image in an instrumental manner, as status and social acceptability depend on how a person looks. This view is based on popular physiognomic assumptions that the body, especially the …
Global Culture
In Pursuit of the Postmodern
The Heroic Life and Everyday Life
Consumer Culture and Postmodernism
Preface In Pursuit of the Postmodern Theories of Consumer Culture Towards a Sociology of Postmodern Culture Postmodernism, Cultural Change and Social Practice Postmodernism and the Aestheticization of Everyday Life Lifestyle and Consumer Culture City Cultures and Postmodern Lifestyles Postmodernism, Consumer Culture and Global Disorder Common Culture or Uncommon Cultures
Archive
The archive is the place for the storage of documents and records. With the emergence of the modern state, it became the storehouse for the material from which national memories were constructed. Archives also housed the proliferation of files and case histories as populations were subjected to disciplinary power and surveillance. Behind all scholarly research stands the archive. The ultimate plausibility of a piece of research depends on the gro…
Cosmopolis
Perspectives on Consumer Culture
Three accounts of consumer culture are discussed in this paper. The first one, the production of consumption perspective, presents the culture which develops around the accumulation of commodities as leading to greater manipulation and control. The second, the mode of consumption perspective, focuses upon the way in which goods are variably used to create distinctions and reinforce social relationships. The third perspective examines the emotiona…
Archiving cultures
This paper argues that to understand the legitimacy of a culture we need to investigate its relation to the archive, the site for the accumulation of records. Archive reason is a kind of reason which is concerned with detail, it constantly directs us away from the big generalization, down into the particularity and singularity of the event. Increasingly the focus has shifted from archiving the lives of the good and the great down to the detail of…
Recognition and Difference
Are there any cultural universals left? Does multiculturalism inevitably involve a slide into moral relativism? This timely and insightful book examines questions of politics and identity in the age of multicultures. It draws together the contribution of outstanding contributors such as Fraser, Honneth, O'Neill, Bauman, Lister, Gilroy and De Swann to explore how difference and multiculturalism take on the arguments of universalist humanism. The a…
Body & Society
Problematizing Global Knowledge and the New Encyclopaedia Project
Body Modification
Re-visioning Body & Society
Georg Simmel
Love and Eroticism
Love and Eroticism - Mike Featherstone An Introduction On the Postmodern Uses of Sex - Zygmunt Bauman The Sexual Citizen - Jeffrey Weeks On the Way to the Post-Familial Family - From a Community of Need to Elective Affinities - Elizabeth Beck-Gernsheim On the Elementary Forms of Socioerotic Life - Sasha Weitman Bohemian Love - Elizabeth Wilson Otto Gross and Else Jaff[ac]e and Max Weber - Sam Whimster with Gottfried Heuer The Lost Innocence of Lo…
Norbert Elias and Figurational Sociology
Consumer Culture
The first special issue of TCS brings together a collection of papers which illustrate our intention of publishing theoretically informed analyses of both substantive cultural processes and everyday popular culture. Under the rubric of consumer culture we have Included studies of some
Leisure, Symbolic Power and the Life Course
Images of Aging
1. Introduction Mike Featherstone and Andy Wernick Historical and Comparative Perspectives 2. Images of old America, 1790-1970 - A Vision and a Revision Andy Achenbaum, University of Michigan 3. Images of Positive Ageing: A Case Study of Retirement Choice Magazine Mike Featherstone and Mike Hepworth, University of Aberdeen 4. The Status and the Image of the Elderly in Japan: Understanding the Paternalistic Ideology Shuichi Wada, Waseda University…
The Flâneur, the City and Virtual Public Life
The Legacy of Albion W. Small
The Older Person in Society
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Pornography, Psychedelics and Technology
Historical Materialism Today
The Body in Consumer Culture
The Midlifestyle of 'George and Lynne
Consumer Culture
The first special issue of TCS brings together a collection of papers which illustrate our intention of publishing theoretically informed analyses of both substantive cultural processes and everyday popular culture. Under the rubric of consumer culture we have Included studies of some
Leisure, Symbolic Power and the Life Course
The Fate of Modernity
French Social Theory
Norbert Elias and Figurational Sociology
Lifestyle and Consumer Culture
In Pursuit of the Postmodern
Postmodernism
Global Culture
Perspectives on Consumer Culture
Three accounts of consumer culture are discussed in this paper. The first one, the production of consumption perspective, presents the culture which develops around the accumulation of commodities as leading to greater manipulation and control. The second, the mode of consumption perspective, focuses upon the way in which goods are variably used to create distinctions and reinforce social relationships. The third perspective examines the emotiona…
The Body in Consumer Culture
The Mask of Ageing and the Postmodern Life Course
The Body
The Midlifestyle of ‘George and Lynne’
The Body
Preface - Mike Featherstone, Mike Hepworth and Bryan S Turner Recent Developments in the Theory of the Body - Bryan S Turner Bringing Bodies Back In - Arthur Frank On Human Beings and Their Emotions - Norbert Elias a Process-Sociological Essay On the Civilizing of Appetite - Stephen Mennell The Discourse of Diet - Bryan S Turner The Body in Consumer Culture - Mike Featherstone The Midlifestyle of 'George and Lynne' - Mike Featherstone and Mike He…
Georg Simmel
The Body
The Heroic Life and Everyday Life
Cultural Theory and Cultural Change
Sociology (48 works) · Epistemology (31 works) · Philosophy (29 works) · Philosophy (25 works) · Art (19 works) · Political science (19 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Law (16 works) · Social science (16 works) · Aesthetics (14 works)