In 1960, Daniel Bell pronounced the end of ideology. With the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1989, Western pundits pronounced the triumph of capitalism and the end of history. But capitalism continues to produce [...]
Nov 162012
Sessions
Nov 162012
Sex selection in favour of boys and mass emigration of young women have led to the so-called army of ‘forced bachelors’, men who remain single due to a demographic deficit of women. Most research to [...]
Nov 162012
This session explores the dynamics of digital mediation occurring as new technologies and ways of using them become more pervasive and diverse. The ubiquity of smartphones, GPS, geolocational, visual technologies, and related devices and systems [...]
Nov 162012
Sociologists have always dabbled with the study of consumption, yet this area has remained relatively peripheral to the discipline. Though early sociologists, like Marx and Weber, took an interest in the study of consumption, many [...]
Nov 162012
This panel examines the complex relationship between emotions and Neo-liberalism. Under Neo-liberalism emotions are increasingly the object of intervention, where self-surveillance emerges as an ethical project and the mark of successful citizenship. How emotions are [...]