Dale Southerton is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester. Recent publications include Sustainable Consumption: The Implications of Changing Infrastructures of Provision (co-edited with Heather Chappells and Bas Van Vliet; Edward Elgar, 2004) and ‘Analysing the Temporal Organization of Daily Life: Social Constraints, Practices and their Allocation’, in Sociology (2006).
Frank Trentmann is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. His recent publications include Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption and Civil Society in Modern Britain (Oxford University Press, 2008), Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives (edited with John Brewer; Berg, 2006) and Citizenship and Consumption (edited with Kate Soper; Palgrave, 2007).
Richard Wilk is Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Indiana University. He has done research in the rainforest of Belize, in West African markets and in the wilds of suburban California. His most recent books are Home Cooking in the Global Village (Berg, 2006) and the edited Fast Food/Slow Food (AltaMira, 2006).
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