How and why are things consumed?
(2020)
Book Chapter
Robertson, M., Deane, K., & Van Waeyenberge, E. (2020). How and why are things consumed?. In Recharting the History of Economic Thought (69-88). London: Bloomsbury Publishing
All Outputs (6)
Material Cultures of Financialisation (2018)
Book
Robertson, M., Bayliss, K., & Fine, B. (2018). Material Cultures of Financialisation. Abingdon, Oxon and New York: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
The systems of provision approach to understanding consumption (2018)
Book Chapter
Robertson, M., Bayliss, K., & Fine, B. (2018). The systems of provision approach to understanding consumption. In O. Kravets, P. Maclaran, S. Miles, & A. Venkatesh (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Consumer Culture (27-42). London, Los Angeles, New Delhi, Singapore: SAGE Publications (UK and US)
(De)constructing the financialised culture of owner-occupation in the UK, with the aid of the 10Cs (2016)
Journal Article
Robertson, M. (2017). (De)constructing the financialised culture of owner-occupation in the UK, with the aid of the 10Cs. New Political Economy, 22(4), 398-409. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2017.1259303Taking owner-occupation as the quintessential form of financialised housing provision, this paper investigates how housing cultures, understood as a set of shared behaviours and beliefs about housing, have been (re)shaped in the UK in a way that favo... Read More about (De)constructing the financialised culture of owner-occupation in the UK, with the aid of the 10Cs.
The great British housing crisis (2016)
Journal Article
Robertson, M. (2017). The great British housing crisis. Capital and Class, 41(2), 195-215. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309816816678571Noting the recent resurgence of housing as a political issue, this article takes a historic view of the origins of the current housing crisis. While the foundations of the contemporary housing system were laid in the period following the First World... Read More about The great British housing crisis.
Introduction to special issue on the material cultures of financialisation (2016)
Journal Article
Bayliss, K., Fine, B., & Robertson, M. (2017). Introduction to special issue on the material cultures of financialisation. New Political Economy, 22(4), 355-370. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2017.1259304This paper offers a wide-ranging introduction to the symposium on the material culture of financialisation. It begins by addressing the nature of financialisation itself, drawing on a tight definition in order to distinguish the phenomenon of financi... Read More about Introduction to special issue on the material cultures of financialisation.