Professor Scott Lash BSc MA PhD
Selected publications
Books
The Militant Worker, Class and Radicalism in France and America, London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1984.
The End of Organized Capitalism, Cambridge: Polity Books, 1987. (Co-author is John Urry). (2nd printing 1988, 3rd prtg 1991, 4th 1995, 5th 1998)
Max Weber, Rationality and Modernity, London: Allen and Unwin, 1987 (Co-edited with Sam Whimster).
Sociology of Postmodernism, London: Routledge, 1990. (2nd printing 1990, 3rd prtg 1991, 4th prtg. 1994); trans. into Slovenian, Japanese, Korean, Portugese, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Romanian)
Post-Structuralist and Postmodernist Sociology, Sussex, Edward Elgar, 1991 (edited)
Modernity and Identity, Oxford: Blackwell, 1992 (co-edited with Jonathan Friedman) (Korean trans. contracted, July 1994). 2nd printing 1994.
Economies of Signs and Space, London: TCS/Sage 1994. (co-author is J Urry). (trans. into German (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp) Korean, Spanish, Italian and Portugese. (3rd printing 1999)
Reflexive Modernization. Cambridge: Polity Press 1994. (2nd printing 1996) (Co-authors Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens) (trans. German, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, Finnish, Korean, Japanese, Portugese, Italian, Spanish, Chinese)
Global Modernities, London: TCS/Sage, 1995 (co-ed. with M. Featherstone and R. Robertson)
De-Traditionalization, Oxford: Blackwell, 1996 (co-ed. with P. Heelas and P. Morris)
Risk, Environment and Modernity, London: Sage (TCS), 1996 (co-ed. with B. Szerszynski and B. Wynne )
Time and Value, Oxford: Blackwell, 1998 (co-ed. with Andrew Quick and Richard Roberts)
Spaces of Culture: City, Nation, World, London: Sage 1999 (co-ed. with M. Featherstone)
Another Modernity, A Different Rationality, Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.
Critique of Information, London: Sage, 2002. (trans. Contracted in Spanish, Japanese, Chinese)
Recognition and Difference: Politics, Identity, Multiculture (co-ed. with M. Featherstone) London: Sage, 2002.
Global Culture Industry: The Mediation of Things, Cambridge: Polity (2005), contracted. co-author is C. Lury.
Articles (since 1998)
Being after Time', in S. Lash and A. Quick (eds.) Time and Value, Oxford: Blackwell, 1998, pp. 147-161. And in Cultural Values, vol. 2, nos. 2-3, June 1998, 304-318.
'The Consequences of Reflexivity: Towards a Theory of the Object', in J. Philip (ed.) Reflexivity and Culture (London, Pluto, 1998).
'Risk Culture', in Barbara Adam, Ulrich Beck and Joost Van Loon (eds.) The Risk Society and Beyond, London: Sage 2000, pp. 47-62. ISBN: 0761964681.
'Informationkritik', Revista Critique des Ciencias Sociales, vol. 22., no,3.
'Technological Forms of Life', Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 18, no.1, 2001.
'Recognition or Difference', Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 18, no. 6, 2001.
'From Accumulation to Circulation: Young British Art and the Culture Society', in Arturo Rodriguez Morato, The Culture Society. Barcelona, 2002.. (co-author is John Myles)
'New Media: From Creativity to Consultancy', Environment and Planning A, vol. 22, Nov. 2002. (with Andreas Wittel).
'Understanding New Media Objects: From Content to Connectivity', in S. Woolgar (ed.) The Virtual Society?. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. (with C. Lury and A. Wittel).
'Lebenssoziologie: Georg Simmel in the Information Age', Theory, Culture & Society (f2004)
China White: Value, Uncertainty and Order in the Chinese Culture Industry, Sciences de la Societe, no. 73, 2008, pp. 17-40 (with J Arnoldi)
Power after Hegemony, Theory, Culture & Society, Vol 24, no. 3, 2007, pp 55-78
Capitalism and Metaphysics, Theory, Culture & Society, Vol 24, no. 5, 2007, pp. 1-26
Grants & awards
Grants
ESRC (British Economic and Social Research Council) grant for 'The Culture Industries: Biographies of Cultural Products', part of ESRC Research Programme in Media Economics and Culture. Jan. 1996 through Jan. 1999, Value £202,000 (Principal Investigator)
European Science Foundation, 'Multimedia Convergence and Labour Relations', Jan. 1997-Jan. 1998. £30,000. (co-investigator).
ESRC 'Silicon Alleys: Networks of Virtual Objects', Virtual Society? Programme, From March 1998 through March 2000. Value £120,000. (Principal Investigator).
ESRC, Department of Trade and Industry, EPSRC. 'Broadband: Interactive Media in a Cross-Platform Environment', PACCIT-LINK Programme. August 2003 through July 2006. Value £820,000. (Principal Investigator and ESRC-DTI Project Manager).
ESRC Risk Cultures in China: An Economic Sociology. 2006-2009. Value £373,000. (Principal Investigator).
Leverhulme Trust: Metadata in the Age of Ubiquitious Media: Project Two in Goldsmiths' Media Research Programme. This project is researching and designing new metadata-rich applications on the internet in China, South Korea and the UK. Value £220,000. (Principal Investigator).