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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.
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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 forthcoming, The
Lived Experiences of Public Consumption (Palgrave
Macmillan), which is expected to be published in March
2008, 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
Edited
Books
Journal
Articles (refereed)
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
2008 |
[forthcoming] “Children
as Consumers.” Invited chapter for Handbook
of Childhood Studies. Edited by Jens Qvortrup,
William A. Corsaro, Michael-Sebastian Honig, and
Gill Valentine. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke. |
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
| 2008 |
[forthcoming]. “Children
as Consumers,” The Chicago Companion
to the Child. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press. |
| 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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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. |
2005 |
“How
Food Consumes the Child in the Corporate
Landscape of Fun.” Presented at the
American Sociological Association (August),
Philadelphia, PA. |
2005 |
“Personhood
and Consumption.” Presented at the
37th Congress of the International Institute
of Sociology (July), Stockholm, Sweden. |
2005 |
“The
Child as Portal Between Family and Market.” Presented
at the Childhoods 2005 Conference, (July),
Oslo, Norway. |
2005 |
Invited
speaker for panel on the 20th anniversary
of Pricing the Priceless Child by
Viviana Zelizer. Eastern Sociological Society,
(March), Washington, DC. |
2005 |
Invited
speaker for Author Meets Critics panel on Point
of Purchase by Sharon Zukin, Eastern
Sociological Society, (March), Washington,
DC. |
2004 |
“Markets
as Social Imaginaries,” Invited presentation,
Section on Economic Sociology, American Sociological
Association (August), San Francisco, CA. |
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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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Book
Review Editor, Journal of Consumer Culture (Sage),
beginning September 2006. |
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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. Expected publication: 2007. |
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Editorial
Board Member, Childhood: A Global Journal
of Child Research, 2003-present.
Guest Editor, (Invited)
Special Issue on “Children in and of
Commercial Culture,” May 2005. |
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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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Advisory
Board Member, Culture, Markets and Consumption, 2000-present. |
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Assistant
Editor, Journal of Sport and Social Issues,
1999-2002; Advisory Board 2002-present.
Guest Co-Editor, (Invited)
two Special Issues on “Children, Sport
and the Politics of Value”
2001. |
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Associate
Editor, Leisure Sciences, 1998-2002.
Guest Editor, (Invited)
Special Issue on “Leisure and Commodification,” 2001. |
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Editor
and Founder, Newsletter of the Consumer,
Commodities and Consumption Interest
Group of the ASA, 1999-present >>> more |
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