Professor Celia Lury

Sociology

Professor | BA PhD

c.lury (@gold.ac.uk)

Research Interests

For a long time I have had two main areas of research interest: sociologyof culture and feminist theory. My contributions to a sociology of culturedraw upon the findings of a series of funded empirical research projects,exploring contemporary developments in the culture industry with a special focus on visual culture, consumer culture (Consumer Culture, a second edition is in press) and intellectual property (Cultural Rights and Global Culture Industry).

My contributions to feminist theory primarily concern the issue of identity (Prosthetic Culture, Feminism and Autobiography) and the changing significance of gender as a social and natural category(Global Nature, Global Culture).In the last few years I have begun to develop a research profileaddressing questions of matter, creativity and invention, and theinter-relationship between economy and society. This has beenfostered by my teaching at Goldsmiths and my participation in theCentre for the Study of Invention and Social Process. This involvedthe co-organisation of a conference, Virtuality, which led to thepublication of a Special Issue of Theory, Culture and Society(Inventive Life: Towards a New Vitalism), 2005, which has since beenpublished as a book by Sage. It was continued in my co-ordinationof the EU network on A Topological Approach to Cultural Dynamicswhich has contributed to an interest in methods, devices, maps andmodels and their role in the emergence of spaces of movement.

Recent Publications

 Lury, Celia and Moor, Liz. 2010. Brand Valuation and Topological Culture. In: Melissa Aronczyk and Devon Powers, eds. Blowing up the Brand. New York: Peter Lang, pp. 29-52.

Lury, Celia. 2009. Brands as assemblages: assembling culture. Journal of Cultural Economy, 2(1-2), pp. 67-82.

Adkins, Lisa and Lury, Celia. 2009. What Is the Empirical? European Journal of Social Theory, 12(1), pp. 5-20.

Lury, Celia. 2008. Cultural Technologies. In: Tony Bennett and John Frow, eds. Handbook of Cultural Analysis. Sage, 570-586.

Lury, Celia. 2008. Trade mark style as a way of fixing things. In: Lionel Bently, Jennifer Davis and Jane C Ginsburg, eds. Trade Marks and Brands: An Interdisciplinary Critique. Cambridge University Press, 201-222 .

Lash, Scott and Lury, Celia. 2007. Global Culture Industry: The Mediation of Things. London: Polity Press.

Lury, Celia. 2007. Just Do It: The Brand as New Media Object. In: Virginia Nightingale and Tim Dwyer, eds. New Media Worlds: Challenges for Convergence. Oxford University Press , 308-324.