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

Sociology Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. The term sociol ...

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

, 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–). He was born in 1946

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 re ...

and

cultural theory Cultural studies is an academic field that explores the dynamics of contemporary culture (including the politics of popular culture) and its social and historical foundations. Cultural studies researchers investigate how cultural practices rela ...

consumer culture Consumer culture describes a lifestyle hyper-focused on spending money to buy material or goods. Consumer culture became prominent in the United States during the rapid economic growth of the Roaring Twenties following the end of World War I ...

and global culture,

ageing Ageing (or aging in American English) is the process of becoming older until death. The term refers mainly to humans, many other animals, and fungi; whereas for example, bacteria, perennial plants and some simple animals are potentially biol ...

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 anim ...

. 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
{{DEFAULTSORT:Featherstone, Mike Year of birth missing (living people) Living people British sociologists Writers about globalization British academic journal editors Academics of Goldsmiths, University of London