Mike Featherstone is a British sociologist. He is director of the Theory, Culture & Society Centre and the Professor of

Sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of Empirical ...

Goldsmiths, University of London Goldsmiths, University of London, officially the Goldsmiths' College, is a constituent research university of the University of London in England. It was originally founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by the Wor ...

, UK, and is visiting professor in Barcelona, Geneva, Kyoto, Recife, São Paulo, Tokyo and Vancouver. He has been influential in generating international funding and organizing conferences such as the ''Ubiquitous Media Conference'' (2005) in Tokyo. He is a founding editor of the journal ''

Theory, Culture & Society ''Theory, Culture & Society'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 1982 and covers sociology, cultural, and social theory. The journal aims to work "across the borderlines between sociology and cultural studies, the social ...

'' (1982–) and the Theory, Culture & Society book series (1991–). He is also the editor-in-chief of the journal, '' Body & Society'' (1995–).

Works

Featherstone's main research interests are

social theory Social theories are analytical frameworks, or paradigms, that are used to study and interpret social phenomena.Seidman, S., 2016. Contested knowledge: Social theory today. John Wiley & Sons. A tool used by social scientists, social theories rela ...

and

cultural theory Cultural studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines the political dynamics of contemporary culture (including popular culture) and its historical foundations. Cultural studies researchers generally investigate how cultural practices re ...

, consumer culture and global culture,

ageing Ageing ( BE) or aging ( AE) is the process of becoming older. The term refers mainly to humans, many other animals, and fungi, whereas for example, bacteria, perennial plants and some simple animals are potentially biologically immortal. In ...

and the

body Body may refer to: In science * Physical body, an object in physics that represents a large amount, has mass or takes up space * Body (biology), the physical material of an organism * Body plan, the physical features shared by a group of anima ...

. His books and articles have been translated into sixteen languages. ;Author *''Consumer Culture and Postmodernism'' (1991, second edition 2007) *''Undoing Culture: Globalization'', ''Postmodernism and Identity'' (1995) ;Co-author *''Surviving Middle Age'' (1982) ;Editor *''Postmodernism'' (1988) *''Global Culture'' (1990) *''Georg Simmel'' (1991) *''Cultural Theory and Cultural Change'' (1992) *''Love and Eroticism'' (1999) *''Body Modification'' (2000) ;Co-editor *''The Body: Social Process and Cultural Theory'' (1991) *''Global Modernities'' (1995) *''Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment'' (1995) *''Images of Ageing'' (1995) *''Simmel on Culture'' (1997) *''Spaces of Culture'' (1999) *''Recognition and Difference'' (2002) *''Automobilities'' (2005) *''Problematizing Global Knowledge'' (2006)

References

External links

Mike Featherstone's page on the SAGE website
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