Mike Featherstone

Mike Featherstone's books examine consumer culture, globalization, social change, aging, mobility, the body, and technological forms of embodiment. Consumer Culture and Postmodernism studies how style, consumption, media, and everyday distinction participate in social life. Global Modernities widens the frame, bringing different accounts of worldwide connection and uneven change into conversation rather than treating development as a single path.

Images of Aging considers how later life is represented and valued, while Body Modification focuses on practices through which bodies become sites of identity, discipline, and display. Automobilities approaches movement through infrastructures and habits that organize space, speed, and access. Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk turns toward imagined and material relations between technology and embodiment. Images, objects, and routines help produce status, belonging, aspiration, and exclusion.