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Daniel Thomas Cook (BS, University of
Illinois; MA, Annenberg School of Communications, University
of Pennsylvania; PhD in Sociology, University of Chicago)
joined the Rutgers-Camden Department of Childhood Studies
in September 2007. Dr.
Cook studies youth and childhood and commercial life from
a cultural-interpretive perspective.
>>> full
CV
Dr.
Dan Cook teaches the graduate Proseminar in Childhood
Studies, Interpretive Research Methods, Introduction
to Childhood Studies and Children in Consumer/Media Culture.
Dr.
Cook’s research focuses on the rise of children
as consumers in the United States, presently and historically.
In particular, he explores the various ways in which
tensions between “the child” and “the
market” play themselves out in various sites of
children’s consumer culture, such as advertising,
food, rituals, clothing and media. He
is the author of The
Commodification of Childhood: The Children's Clothing
Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer (2004,
Duke University Press) and is the editor of Symbolic
Childhood (2002, Peter Lang). Dr. Cook also
has an edited book, The
Lived Experiences of Public Consumption (2008,
Palgrave Macmillan), and a
number of articles and chapters on children in American
culture.
Daniel
Cook is founder of The
Consumer Studies Research Network (CSRN),
a scholarly network, associated with the American Sociological
Association. CSRN was created to exchange information
and to bring to the fore the depths to which commodities
and a market logic have come to pervade virtually all
forms of social life and social interaction. For information,
please email Dan
Cook.
>>> check
out the new CSRN website
Dr.
Cook was interviewed for "Marketplace,"
(FOX
29 TV, Philadelphia, Dec 11, 2007) about
the role of targeted marketing to kids, ages 9-14, called "tween."
>>> watch
the show online
Dr.
Cook's research on "princess culture" was
highlighted in Rutgers
Focus (2/6/08).
The article points to troubling
aspects of merchandizing for children, especially girls.
>>> read
the article
Books
Journal
Articles (refereed)
| 2009 |
“Semantic
Provisioning of Children’s Food: Commerce,
Care and Maternal Practice.” Childhood.
16(3), 317-334. |
| 2008 |
“The
Missing Child in Consumption Theory” Journal
of Consumer Culture, Vol 8, No. 2 (July),
219-243. |
2007 |
“The
Disempowering Empowerment of Children’s Consumer ‘Choice’:
Cultural Discourses of the Child Consumer in North
America.” Society and Business Review, 2
(1), 37-52. |
2006 |
“Problemitizing
Consumption, Community and Leisure: Some Thoughts
on Moving Beyond Essentialist Thinking” Leisure/Loisir,
30 (2), 455-466. |
2005 |
“The
Dichotomous Child in and of Commercial Culture.” Childhood,
12:2 (May), 155-159. |
2004 |
“Betwixt
and Be Tween: Age Ambiguity and the Sexualization
of the Female Consuming Subject.” Journal
of Consumer Culture, 4:2 (July), 203-227 (with
Susan B. Kaiser). |
2004 |
“Beyond
Either/Or.” Guest Editor’s Introduction
to the Special Issue. Journal of Consumer Culture.
4:2 (July). |
2003 |
“Spatial
Biographies of Children’s Consumption.” Journal
of Consumer Culture 3:2 (July), 147-169. |
2003 |
“Agency,
Children’s Consumer Culture and the Fetal
Subject.” Consumption, Markets and Culture,
6 (2), (June), 1-17. |
Book Chapters
| 2010 |
(forthcoming) “Commercial
Enculturation: Moving Beyond Consumer Socialization.” To
appear in: David Buckingham and Vebjørg Tingstad
(eds.) Childhood and Consumer Culture Basingstoke,
UK: Palgrave. |
| 2010 |
(forthcoming) “Children’s
Subjectivities and Commercial Meaning: The Delicate
Battle Mothers Wage when Feeding their Children.” To
appear in Allison James, Anne Trine Kjørholt
and Vebjørg Tingstad (eds.) Childhood,
Food and Identity in Everyday Life. Basingstoke,
UK: Palgrave |
| 2010 |
(forthcoming) “Leveraging
the Child’s Perspective: Commercial Epistemologies
of Children’s Consumption. To appear
in Inside Marketing, edited by Detlev
Zwick and Julien Cayla. Oxford University Press. |
2009 |
“Children
as Consumers.” Invited chapter for Handbook
of Childhood Studies. Edited by Jens Qvortrup,
William A. Corsaro andMichael-Sebastian Honig.
Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, pp. 332-346. |
2006 |
“Leisure
and Consumption.” Invited chapter for the Handbook
of Leisure Studies, Chris Rojek, Susan Shaw
and A. J. Veal (eds.). Houndmills: Macmillan-Palgrave,
pp. 304-316. |
2006 |
“In
Pursuit of the ‘Inside View’: Training
the Research Gaze on Advertising and Market Practitioners” In
Russell Belk (ed.) Handbook of Qualitative Research
Methods in Marketing. Cheltenham, UK/Northampton,
MA: Edward Elgar Publishing., pp. 534-546. |
2005 |
“Consumer
Culture.” Invited chapter for the Blackwell
Companion to Cultural Sociology. Mark Jacobs
and Nancy Harrington, eds. Malden, MA: Blackwell,
pp. 160-175. |
Encyclopedia
Entries
| 2009 |
“Play
Frames” Pp 52-53 in Encyclopedia of Play:
A Social History. London: Sage. |
| 2009 |
“Children
as Consumers,” The Chicago Companion
to the Child. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press. |
| 2008 |
“Consumption:
Child and Adolescent.” Pp. 106-109 in Encyclopedia
of the Life Course and Human Development.
Farmington Hills, MA: Gale. |
| 2006 |
“Children’s
Consumer Culture.” Pp. 693-697 in Blackwell
Encyclopedia of Sociology, George Ritzer (ed.).
Malden, MA: Blackwell. |
| 2006 |
“Urban
Consumption/City as Consumer Space.” Pp.
765-769 in Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology,
George Ritzer (ed.). Malden, MA: Blackwell. |
| 2004 |
“The
Commercialization of Leisure.” Encyclopedia
of Leisure and Recreation in America. Gary
S. Cross (ed.) Malden, MA: Blackwell. |
| 2003 |
“Community
Recreation.” Encyclopedia of Community.
Karen Christensen and David Levinson (eds.), Vol. 3:
1146-1149. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. |
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| Presentations |
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| 2010 |
“Children, Citizenship
and Consumer Culture.” Invited paper
to be presented at the Thematic Session. “Children’s Citizenship Status and Experience in a Globalizing
World.” American Sociological Association (August), Atlanta, GA. |
| 2010 |
“Figurations, Fabrications
and Performances in and of Markets.” Paper
to be presented at the Special Session “Market
as Social Imaginaries: Language, Performance
and Economic Action.” American Sociological
Association (August), Atlanta, GA. |
| 2009 |
“Commercially Speaking:
Gleaning Children’s Perspectives and
Desires from Commercial Sources.” Paper
presented at the Society for the History of Children and Youth conference,
Berkeley, CA (July). |
| 2009 |
“Commercial Spaces and
Places of Childhood.” Invited presentation
for the “Disciplinary domains in
child and youth research” at the Association of American Geographers
annual meeting, Las Vegas, NV (March). |
| 2009 |
“Nagging Questions about the
Ethics of Commercial Representation: Conundrums
of Children and Childhood.” Invited
presentation for the “The Ethics of Representing Childhood: Popular Culture,
Performance, and Pedagogy” conference, Arizona State University, Temper,
AZ (March). |
| 2008 |
“Semantic
Provisioning: Commerce, Care and Maternal
Practice.” Presented at the American Sociological
Association (August), Boston, MA. |
| 2008 |
“Arm-wrestling
with the Child Consumer: Contradictions and
Conundrums of Critical and Interpretive Stances.” Paper
presented at the Contested Terrain of Consumption
Studies conference, Boston, MA (July).
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| 2008 |
“Commercial
Re-presentations: Food, Children’s
Subjectivities and Commercial Meaning.” Presented
at Re-Presenting Childhoods conference, Centre
for Children and Youth, Sheffield University
(July), Sheffiled, UK. |
| 2008 |
When
a Child is not a Child, and Other Conceptual
Hazards of Childhood Studies.” Invited
presentation for the
25th anniversary celebration of the Norwegian
Centre for Child Research, “Childhood
- Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow,” Trondheim,
Norway (April) |
| 2008 |
“Commercial Enculturation: Moving Beyond Consumer Socialization.” Presented at the 3rd Child and Teen Consumption Conference, Norwegian Centre for Child Research (April), Trondheim, Norway. |
| 2008 |
“The
Portal of Play: Corporate Play with and in
Contemporary Childhoods.” Presented
at the American Play: Sports, Games, Entertainment
and Fantasy in American Culture conference,
Strong National
Museum of Play (April), Rochester, NY. |
2008 |
“Fashion
for Whom? Display, Ambiguity and the
Performing Child.” Invited Keynote
Speaker for the Pasold Conference, “ Clothing
Childhood, Fashioning Society: Children's
Clothing in Britain in the Twentieth Century.” The
Foundling Museum (January), London UK. |
2007 |
“Children’s
Consumer Culture” Presented at American
Studies Association (October), Philadelphia,
PA. |
2007 |
“Mothers,
Commerce and Care and the Production of the
American Children’s Birthday Celebration.”
Open refereed Roundtables. Presented at the
American Sociological Association (August),
New York, NY. |
2007 |
“Corporate
Play and Commercial Fun in Contemporary Childhoods.” Invited
Lecture, co-sponsored by the Centre for the
Study of Children, Youth and Media and the
Childhood Research and Policy Centre, University
of London (May), London, UK. |
2007 |
“Trick
or Treat? Provisioning and Maternal Bricolage
in Feeding Children.” Invited talk
at ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural
Change, (April) University of Manchester,
UK. |
2007 |
“Commerce
and Care: A Recipe for “Children's
Food.’” Presented at the
British Sociological Association Annual Meeting,
(April) University of East London, UK. |
2007 |
“Fun
Morality Revisited: Playing with the
Consuming Child.” Invited presentation
for the “Consuming Children: Commercialisation
and the Changing Construction of Childhood” research
project at the Norwegian Centre for Child
Research, (March) Trondheim, Norway. |
2007 |
“Commercial
Epistemologies of Contemporary Childhoods:
Agency and Beyond.” Invited presentation
for the Annual Lecture for the Centre for
the Study of Childhood and Youth, University
of Sheffield, UK (March |
2007 |
“Fashion,
Children and the Commodity Form.” Invited
presentation for the Body and Material Cultures
Seminar, London College of Fashion, ( March)
London, UK. |
2006 |
"The
Missing Child in Consumption Theory.” Invited
Keynote speaker, Second Biannual Conference
on Child and Teen Consumption 2006, Copenhagen
Business School, (April), Copenhagen, Denmark. |
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| Honors
and Awards |
Visiting
Professorships, Lectureships and Fellowships |
2007 |
International
Fellow, Cultures of Consumption Programme,
Birkbeck College, London (Spring) |
2006 |
Visiting
Scholar, European Center for Children’s
Products, University of Poitiers, Angoulême,
France (May) |
2005 |
Visiting
Scholar, Department of Sociology, University
of Chicago (Fall) |
2005 |
Visiting
Scholar, European Center for Children’s
Products, University of Poitiers, Angoulême,
France (July) |
2002 |
Visiting
Professor, Leo Burnett, Inc., Chicago, as
part of the Visiting Professor Program, Advertising
Educational Foundation (July) |
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Editorial |
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Editor, Childhood:
A Global Journal of Child Research,
2008-present. |
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Book
Review Editor, Journal of Consumer
Culture (Sage)., 2006-present. |
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Advisory
Editor for Consumption entries (Invited), Blackwell
Encyclopedia of Sociology. George Ritzer,
University of Maryland, General Editor. Responsible
for approx. 50 entries on the sociology of
consumption. Published 2006. |
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Editorial
Advisory Board Member, Young Consumers,
2006-present. |
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Advisory
Board Member, Journal of Consumer Culture,
2000-present.
Guest
Editor, (Invited) Special Issue on “Children’s
Consumer Culture,” July 2004. |
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