The Emergence Of Contemporary Consumerism
The Consumer As Chooser
The Consumer As Communicator
The Consumer As Explorer
The Consumer As Identity-Seeker
The Consumer
Hedonist Or Artist?
The Consumer As Victim
The Consumer As Rebel
The Consumer As Activist
The Consumer As Citizen
The Unmanageable Consumer
Yiannis Gabriel is Professor of Organizational Theory at Bath
University. Yiannis has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from
Imperial College London and a PhD in Sociology from the University
of California, Berkeley.
Yiannis is well known for his work into organizational storytelling
and narratives, leadership, management learning and the culture and
politics of contemporary consumption. He has used stories as a way
of studying numerous social and organizational phenomena including
leader-follower relations, group dynamics and fantasies, nostalgia,
insults and apologies. He has also carried out extensive research
on the psychoanalysis of organizations.
Yiannis is founder and coordinator of the Organizational
Storytelling Seminar series, now in its fourteenth year (See
http://www.organizational-storytelling.org.uk/), the author of nine
books and numerous articles. He is elected to the board of EGOS and
is currently Senior Editor of Organization Studies. His enduring
fascination as a researcher lies in what he describes as the
unmanageable qualities of life in and out of organizations.
Tim Lang has been Professor of Food Policy at City University′s
Centre for Food Policy since 2002. With a PhD in Social Psychology
from Leeds University he became a hill farmer in Lancashire, North
of England, in the 1970s.
Over the last four decades he has engaged in public and academic
research and debate about food policy: what sort of food system do
we want? What do we mean by progress? He has written and co-written
10 books and many reports and papers on the trends, problems and
policy frameworks in the food system. A constant theme is how
public health, environment, social justice and consumer rights do
and don’t connect.
Besides his academic work, he has been an advisor to many bodies
including the World Health Organisation, the EU Environment
Commissioner, the Mayor of London and many civil society
organisations. He was the UK Government’s Sustainable Development
Commissioner for food and land use in 2006-11. All this enquiry and
engagement spawned and retains his keen interest in the issues
analysed in The Unmanageable Consumer.
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