Every student will present one reading to the class. Presenters should summarize the reading's main points, assess its strengths and weaknesses, and provide some initial ideas to guide the discussion. All students will be prepared to participate in class discussions of the readings, so the presenter's duty is to begin that discussion. Every presenter must provide me a thorough outline of their presentation on the day of the presentation or lose half of their reading presentation credit.

The line ABOVE the reading indicates the person who is presenting that reading: please do not get confused and prepare the wrong reading for class.

Email me if you have any questions.

READINGS SIGN UP SHEET

            The line above the reading title is the reading you are volunteering to present.

January 17

   Mike Thompson                                                                         

• Not Going to Starbucks: Boycotts and the Out-Scouring of Politics in the Branded World (Bryant Simon, Journal of Consumer Culture 11(2):145-167).

    Abigail Kennedy                                                                                           

• Bottled Water: The Pure Commodity in the Age of Branding (Richard Wilk, Journal of Consumer Culture 6(3):303-325 [2006]).

January 24

    Jenna Wohelke                                                                                             

• Rubbish, Chapter 1, Yes, Wonderful Things

    Amy Wagoner                                                                                             

• Rubbish, Chapter 3, What We Say, What We Do

    Genevieve Wagner                                                                                

• Rubbish, Chapter 6, A Garbage Census?

January 31

     Kat Chappell                                                                                            

• Domesticating Barbie: An Archaeology of Barbie Material Culture and Domestic Ideology  (Marlys J Pearson and Paul R. Mullins,  International Journal of Historical Archaeology 3(4):225-259 [1999])

    Jake Sheff                                                                                            

• Vehicle of the Self: The Social and Cultural Work of the H2 Hummer (Jeremy Schulz, Journal of Consumer Culture 6(1):57-86 [2006]).

February 7

     Dolly Hayde                                                                                            

• Tourism and "Sacred Ground": The Space of Ground Zero (from Marita Sturken, Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero [2007]).

     Carrie Blattel                                                                                          

• "Just Normal and Homely": The Presence, Absence and Othering of Consumer Culture in Everyday Imagining (Rebecca Jenkins, Elizabeth Nixon and Mike Molesworth, Journal of Consumer Culture 11(2):261-281).

February 14

     Oaksoon Callahan                                                                                            

• The Cult of Macintosh (Russell W. Belk and Gulnur Tumbat, Consumption, Markets and Culture 8(3):205-217 [2005]).

    Rachael Zimmerman                                                                                            

• Working Out: Consumers and the Culture of Exercise (Barbara J. Phillips, Journal of Popular Culture 38(3):525-551 [2005]).

February 21

     Traci Miller                                                                                          

• Dismantling Mantlepieces:  Narrating Identities and Materializing Culture in the Home (Rachel Hurdley, Sociology 40[4]:717-733 [2006]).

    Nicole Martinez-LeGrand                                                                                          

• Material Culture and the Living Room: The Appropriation and Use of Goods in Everyday Life (Annemarie Money, Journal of Consumer Culture 7(3):355-377 [2007]). 

February 28

     JD Kerner                                                                                          

• Narratives of Value and the Antiques Roadshow: "A Game of Recognitions."  (Abby Clouse, The Journal of Popular Culture 41(1):3-20 [2008]).

    Meredith Brickell AND Sami Norling                                                          

• A Hard Rain: Children's Shrapnel Collections in the Second World War (Gabriel Moshenska, Journal of Material Culture 13(1):107-125 [2008]).

March 6

     Ryan Plump AND Omar Nader                                                                                          

• Introduction and Chapter 1, Subculture

     Jamie Box                                                                                          

• Chapters 5-6, Subculture

     Jessica Hill                                                                                         

• Chapters 7-8, Subculture

March 20

     Taylor Rhodes                                                                                          

• Productive Spaces: Girls' Bedrooms as Sites of Cultural Production (Mary Celeste Kearny, Journal of Children and Media 1(2):126-141 [2007]).

      Richard Schulte                                                                                     

• Click a Donor: Viking Masculinity on the Line (Charlotte Krolokke, Journal of Consumer Culture).

March 27

     Jessica Brookie                                                                                          

• `It's Not Forever': The Material Culture of Hope (Fiona R. Parrott, Journal of Material Culture 10(3):245-262 [2005]).

      Nicole Wittlief                                                                                        

• A Soldier's Body: GI Joe, Hasbro's Great American Hero, and the Symptoms of Empire (Karen J. Hall, Journal of Popular Culture 38(1):34-54 [2004]).

April 3

    Nicholas Harding                                                                                          

• Words in Stone?: Agency and Identity in a Nazi Landscape (Sharon Macdonald, Journal of Material Culture 11(1/2):105-126 [2006]).

     Josh VanBibber  AND Shane Collins                                                                                        

• Expertise and Inability: Cultured Materials and the Reason for Some Retreating Lawns in London (Russell Hitchings, Journal of Material Culture 11(3):364-381 [2006]).

April 10

     Abbey Brands                                                                                          

• Prisoners in Paradise: Subcultural Resistance to the Marketization of Tattooing (Anders Bengtsson, Jacob Osterberg, and Dannie Kjedlgaard, Consumption, Markets and Culture 8(3):261-274 [2005]).

     Ashley Flynn                                                                                         

• Domesticating the French Fry: McDonald's and Consumerism in Moscow (Melissa L. Caldwell, Journal of Consumer Culture 4(1):5-26 [2004]).

April 17

       Chloe Payton                                                                                        

• Hummel Figurines: Molding a Collectable Germany (John Chaimov, Journal of Material Culture 6(1):49-66.

 Last updates January 12, 2012