Ethical Fashion Futures Workshop: Changing Habits in Retail
Back in the summer of 2012, fellow PhD retail researcher Ellie Tighe and I decided that there was something of a gap in the ethical fashion conversation. There was quite a lot going on in London; a...
View ArticleBored of Shopping? Christmas and Stuff
Having now studied shopping for a few years, I think I’m finally well and truly bored of it – the act that is, not the research. It’s something that I’ve particularly noticed this year, as I wander...
View ArticleNew Year Reflections 2014
Happy New Year! I hope you had a good Christmas. I certainly did, despite the fact that my parent’s house became a casualty in the storm that hit the South East. This was one end of my road when I was...
View ArticleWriting About Consumption
“The single main problem with conventional writing about consumption is that it seems to consist largely of authors who wish to claim that they are deep by trying to show how everyone else is shallow.”...
View ArticleRecent Guest Posts
I’ve had a few guest posts published recently – Giving UK Ethical Fashion the Celebrity Treatment – La Leaf La Leaf is a Berlin-based ethical fashion site. I was approached by the lovely Sarah,...
View ArticleDiverse Economies and Alternative Channels of Consumption
A couple of months ago I went to a fascinating conference/workshop organised by the Geography department at the University of Leicester. It was called ‘Diverse Alternatives: living, working and playing...
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