List of Contributors
Inge Daniels is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford. Her book The Japanese House: Material Culture in the Modern Home is due to be published by Berg in 2010.
Billy Ehn is Professor of European Ethnology at the University of Umeå. He has published a number of books on different aspects of everyday life, including Vad konstigt: Om undran och oförståelse (How Odd: On Curioisity and Disbelief; Studentlitteratur, 2005) and När ingenting särskilt händer (with Orvar Löfgren, Brutus Östlings Bokförlag Symposion, 2007, Engl. translation: The Secret World of Doing Nothing, University of California Press, in press).
Güliz Ger is Professor of Marketing at Bilkent University, Ankara. Her research interests involve issues of consumption, culture and globalization. She has co-authored ‘Constructing and Representing the Islamic Consumer in Turkey’, in Fashion Theory (2007), ‘Aesthetics, Ethics and the Politics of the Turkish Headscarf’, in Suzanne Kuechler and Daniel Miller, eds, Clothing as Material Culture (Berg, 2005), and ‘The Fire of Desire: A Multi-sited Inquiry into Consumer Passion’, in Journal of Consumer Research (2003).
Jukka Gronow is Professor of Sociology at the University of Uppsala. He has written widely on consumption, taste and style, including Sociology of Taste (Routledge, 1997) and Caviar with Champagne (Berg, 2003).
Mikko Jalas is a Research Fellow in Organization and Management at the Helsinki School of Economics. His work has focused on environmental policy and the politics of time and temporality in everyday life. He has published articles in Time & Society and Ecological Economics.
Olga Kravets is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Bilkent University, Ankara. She has worked at A.C. Nielsen Australia, a market research company, as well as conducting academic research on consumption and marketing in transitional economies.
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