Welcome to the Social History Society

Markets, Culture and Society

This addresses the relationship between markets, culture and societies. We invite papers that consider the interaction between aspects of the economy, culture and society from the Middle Ages to the present and specifically welcome papers that explore such questions outside the European hemisphere. Papers are also welcome which focus on specific situations, actors, and contexts and that include analyses of producers, employers, employees, consumers, market actors, citizens etc. Issues addressed in this strand include, amongst others:

- the ethics of consumption, social standards, sustainability and environmentalism
- civil society, the state and the economic and political order
- intellectuals, social critique and the making (or unmaking) of social and market structures
- globalisation, divergence/convergence, ‘core-periphery’ and other models in global history
- culture and economy, the business of culture, the culture(s) of business
- social and cultural worlds of work, the factory and other workplaces as social and cultural spaces

The strand explicitly encourages speakers to reflect on the theoretical frameworks and/or reflect on global and/or comparative perspectives.

Strand Convenors:
Donna Loftus: d.loftus@open.ac.uk
Sean Nixon: snixon@essex.ac.uk
Stefan Schwarzkopf: ssc.lpf@cbs.dk

Enquiries about specific strands should be addressed to the relevant Strand Convenors.
For general enquiries about the conference, please contact Linda Persson, the Administrative Secretary: L.Persson@lancaster.ac.uk

Papers presented at the Conference can be submitted to the Society’s journal, Cultural and Social History, to be considered for publication. For details, see
http://www.socialhistory.gellius.net/Journal.php