BRNO TALKS, IAN WOODWARD


1) Intro to Cult. Soc. class on Monday 14^th :



Lecture title: 'Material culture and consumption: the case of vinyl records'


Primary readings:


1.       Woodward, Understanding Material Culture, Chapter 1

2.      Bartmanksi and Woodward, ‘The Vinyl: The Analogue Medium in the Age of Digital
Reproduction’, Journal of Consumer Culture, 2013, published online ahead of print


Secondary readings for further consultation:


1.       Alexander JC (2008) ‘Iconic experience in art and life: Surface/depth beginning with
Giacometti’s Standing Woman’, Theory, Culture and Society, 25(5): 1–19.

2.      Appadurai A (1986) ‘Introduction: Commodities and the politics of value’, In: Appadurai A
(ed.) The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective. Melbourne: University Press,
pp. 3–63.

3.      Belk RW and Tumbat G (2005) ‘The cult of Macintosh’, Consumption, Markets and Culture,
8(3): 205–217.

4.      Douglas, M and Isherwood B (1979) The World of Goods. Towards an Anthropology of
Consumption. New York: Basic Books.

5.      Miller D (1987) Material Culture and Mass Consumption. Oxford: Blackwell.

6.      Slater D (1997) Consumer Culture and Modernity. Cambridge: Polity Press.

7.      Woodward I (2007) Understanding Material Culture. London: Sage.



2) Workshop talks, Wednesday 16th:



Workshop title: ‘Cosmopolitanism: Uses of the Idea’


The workshop presentation will have three themes:


1) Introducing cosmopolitanism

2) Empiricising cosmopolitanism: approaches and concepts

3) Materialising cosmopolitanism: cosmoscapes, networks and encounters


Tasks:


For the workshop, please also prepare by undertaking the following activity.


Prepare a description of spaces, places or events in your town/city/neighborhood where cosmopolitan
attitudes of openness are evident or practiced. In what ways are these attitudes evident in this
space? What symbols – material and visual - inform the way the space is understood by participants?
In what ways, or not, might we consider this space to be ‘cosmopolitan’ in nature?



Primary readings:


1.       Skrbis, Z., and Woodward, I. (2007) ‘The ambivalence of ordinary cosmopolitanism:
Investigating the limits of cosmopolitan openness’ The Sociological Review, 55:4, 730-747.

2.       Skrbis, Z., Kendall, G., and Woodward, I. (2004) ‘Locating Cosmopolitanism: Between
Humanist Ideal and Grounded Social Category’, Theory, Culture and Society, 21(5): 115-136.


Secondary readings for further consultation:


1.       Andersen, E. (2011) The Cosmopolitan Canopy. Race and Civility in Everyday Life, WW Norton
& Co., New York.

2.      Delanty, G. (2009) The Cosmopolitan Imagination: the Renewal of Critical Social Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.

3.      Lamont, M. and Aksartova, S., (2002) ‘Ordinary Cosmopolitanisms: Strategies for bridging
racial boundaries among working-class men’, Theory, Culture and Society, 19 (4): 1–25.

4.      Nava, M. (2007) Visceral Cosmopolitanism: Gender, Culture and the Normalisation of
Difference, Oxford: Berg.

5.      Roudometof, V. (2005) ‘Transnationalism, Cosmopolitanism and Globalization’. Current
Sociology, 35(1): 113-135.

6.      Savage, M., Bagnall, G. and Longhurst, B. (2005) Globalization and Belonging, London: Sage.

7.      Skrbis, Z., and Woodward, I. (2013) Cosmopolitanism. Uses of the Idea, London: Sage,
Theory, Culture and Society Book Series.

8.      Szerszynski, B. and Urry, J. (2002) ‘Cultures of Cosmopolitanism’, The Sociological Review,
50(4): 461-81.

9.      Vertovec, S. and Cohen, R. (2002) Conceiving Cosmopolitanism – Theory, Context, Practice,
Oxford: Oxford University Press.