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 their powerpoint on the day of the presentation.

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.

February 4

Thomas Sisson                                                                                           

• 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).

Brooke Holder

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

February 11

Heather Harvey

• Rubbish, Chapter 1, Yes, Wonderful Things

Christina Schneider

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

Bobbi Fischer

• Rubbish, Chapter 6, A Garbage Census?

February 18

Jessica Adair

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

Robert Clark

• 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 25

Taylor Smith

• 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], pp.165-218). Oncourse

Devin Howard

• "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).

March 4

Whitney Hatter

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

Diana Natividad

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

March 18

Sarah Turner

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

Rachel Ferguson

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

March 25

Alex Ludwig

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

Ashley Wright

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

April 1

Valerie Khokhar

• Introduction and Chapter 1, Subculture

Paris Walton

• Chapters 5-6, Subculture

Open

• Chapters 7-8, Subculture

April 8

K Karim

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

Tyler Coxey

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

April 15

Marlena Webb

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

Taylor Cox

• 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 22

Emily Conwell

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

Heather Meloy

• 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 29

Aaron Williamson

• ·     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]).Oncourse

Megan Berry

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

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