Dr Ian Woodward

B Arts (Hons), PhD

Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities

Contact details for Dr Ian Woodward

Research expertise

• Consumption and material culture
• Globalisation, identity, culture
• Taste and aesthetics
• Narrative, performance and identity
• Cultural sociology of economic behaviour
• Interpretive methodology

Current teaching areas

• Cultural sociology
• Sociology of identity
• Consumption and lifestyle

Publications

Books

• Woodward, I. (2007) Understanding Material Culture . London: Sage.
• Kendall, G., Woodward, I. and Skrbis, Z. (2009) The Sociology of Cosmopolitanism,  London: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Bennett, A., Back, L., Edles, L., Gibson, M., Inglis, D., Jacobs, R., Woodward. I. Cultural Sociology. An Introduction, Oxford: Blackwell. (forthcoming) 
• Skrbis, Z., and Woodward, I. Cosmopolitanism. Uses of the Idea, London: Sage, Theory, Culture and Society Book Series. (forthcoming)
  
  

Refereed journal articles

• Woodward, I., and Ellison. D. (forthcoming, 2010) 'Theorising aesthetic experience. The fusion of audience and aesthetic objects in the arts', Thesis Eleven, Special Issue on Cultural Sociology and the Art Object.
• Calcutt, L., Woodward, I., and Skrbis, Z., (2009) 'Conceptualising Otherness: An Exploration of the Cosmopolitan Schema', Journal of Sociology , 45(2): 169-86. 
• Kendall, G., Skrbis, Z., and Woodward, I. (2008) 'Cosmopolitanism, the Nation-State and Imaginative Realism', Journal of Sociology, 44(4): 401-417. 
• Woodward, I., Skrbis, Z., and Bean, C. 2008. 'Attitudes toward globalization and cosmopolitanism: Cultural diversity, personal consumption and the national economy', The British Journal of Sociology , 59(1): 207-226.
  
• Woodward, I., Skrbis, Z., and Bean, C. 'Attitudes toward globalization and cosmopolitanism: Cultural diversity, personal consumption and the national economy', British Journal of Sociology, (forthcoming).
• Skrbis, Z., and Woodward, I. 2007 'The ambivalence of ordinary cosmopolitanism: Investigating the limits of cosmopolitan openness', The Sociological Review, 55:4, 730-747.
• Coco, A., and Woodward, I. 2007 'Discourses of authenticity within a pagan community: the emergence of the 'fluffy bunny' sanction', Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 36(5): 479-504.
• Woodward, I. 2006. 'Investigating the consumption anxiety thesis: aesthetic choice, narrativisation and social performance', The Sociological Review, 54(2): 263-282.
• Skrbis, Z., Kendall, G., and Woodward, I. 2004 'Locating Cosmopolitanism: Between Humanist Ideal and Grounded Social Category', Theory , Culture and Society, 21(5): 115-136.
• Woodward, I. 2003 'Divergent narratives in the imagining of the home amongst middle-class consumers: aesthetics, comfort and the symbolic boundaries of self and home', Journal of Sociology, 39(4): 391-412. 
• Woodward, I. 2001 'Domestic objects and the taste epiphany: a resource for consumption methodology', Journal of Material Culture, 6(2): 115-36.
• Woodward, I., and Emmison, M. 2001 'From aesthetic principles to collective sentiments: the logics of everyday judgements of taste', Poetics, 29(6): 295-316.
• Coco, A., Woodward, I., Cody, A., Lupton, G., Peake, A., and Shaw, K. 2001. 'Bingo for Beginners: a game strategy for teaching large classes', Teaching Sociology, 29(4): 492-503. 
• Woodward, I., Emmison, M., and Smith, P. 2000. 'Consumerism, disorientation and postmodern space: a modest test of an immodest theory', The British Journal of Sociology, 51(2): 339-54. 
• Woodward, I. 1998 'The shopping mall, postmodern space and architectural practice. Theorising the postmodern spatial turn through the planning discourse of mall architects', Architectural Theory Review, 3(2): 46-58.
  

Book chapters

• Woodward, I., and Ellison, D. (forthcoming) 'How to make an Iconic Wine: The Case of Grange', In Alexander, J.C.,  Giesen, B., and Bartmanski, D. The Iconic Turn in Cultural Sociology.
• Skrbis, Z., and Woodward, I. (forthcoming) 'Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Openness', In Rovisco, M., and Nowicka, M. The Ashgate Companion to Cosmopolitanism.
• Woodward, I (forthcoming) 'Mobilities', In Jackson, R.L. Encyclopaedia of Identity, Sage Publications, London.
• Woodward, I (forthcoming) 'Modernity and postmodernity', In Jackson, R.L. Encyclopaedia of Identity, Sage Publications, London.
• Woodward, I. (forthcoming) 'JK Galbraith', In Southerton, D., Crane, D., Jackson, P., Wilk, R., Ekstrom, K., Trentmann, F., and Warde, A., Encyclopaedia of Consumer Culture, Sage Publications, London.
• Woodward, I. (forthcoming) 'Affluent Society', In Southerton, D., Crane, D., Jackson, P., Wilk, R., Ekstrom, K., Trentmann, F., and Warde, A., Encyclopaedia of Consumer Culture, Sage Publications, London.
• Woodward, I. (forthcoming) ‘Consumer Interviews’, In Southerton, D., Crane, D., Jackson, P., Wilk, R., Ekstrom, K., Trentmann, F., and Warde, A., Encyclopaedia of Consumer Culture , Sage Publications, London.
• Woodward, I. (forthcoming) 'Consumer Anxiety', In Southerton, D., Crane, D., Jackson, P., Wilk, R., Ekstrom, K., Trentmann, F., and Warde, A., Encyclopaedia of Consumer Culture, Sage Publications, London.
• Woodward, I (forthcoming) 'Consumption, material culture and a cultural sociology of economic life', In Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology, Edited by Alexander, J.C., Smith, P., and Jacobs, R. Oxford University Press.
• Woodward, I. (2009) 'Material culture and narrativization. Fusing myth, materiality and meaning', In Vannini, P. (ed) Material Culture and Ethnography, Peter Lang, New York.
  
• Woodward, I. (2007) 'Consumption and Lifestyles', In Germov, J., and Poole, M. Public Sociologies: An Australian Perspective, Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
• Woodward, I. (2004) 'Sociology, consumption and the study of material culture', In Stoneham, L.M. Advances in Sociology Research, Volume 2 , Nova Science Publishers, New York. pp. 81-102.
• Woodward, I (forthcoming) 'Consumption, material culture and a cultural sociology of economic life' In Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology, Edited by Alexander, J.C., Smith, P., and Jacobs, R. (forthcoming) Oxford University Press.
• Woodward, I (forthcoming) 'Material culture and narrative' In Vannini, P. (ed) Material Culture and Ethnography, Peter Lang, New York. 
  

Edited conference proceedings

• Ellison, D., and Woodward, I. (eds.) 2005. Sites of Cosmopolitanism: Citizenship, Aesthetics, Culture, Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, Griffith University. ISBN: 1 920952 497.

Conference papers

• I have presented over 20 conference papers to national and international conferences, including meetings of the American Sociological Association (2004, 2006), The International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology (2002, 2006), and The Australian Sociological Annual Meeting (1997-98, 2000-2005).
• My papers have been published in refereed conference forums, including the proceedings of the American Sociological Association, The Australian Sociological Association, and the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia.
• I have been an invited participant and speaker at research symposiums in New Haven (Yale), 2005 and 2006; Manchester (2006), Oxford (2006), Konstanz (2007 and 2008), Copenhagen (2009).
• I was an invited keynote speaker at the opening of the Research Centre in Visual and Material Culture, Massey University, New Zealand (May 2009) and at University of Queensland School of Social Science Postgraduate Research Conference (November 2009).
• I have been an invited public speaker on 'Cosmopolitanism', Institute of Modern Art (2009), 'Andy Warhol and the art of collecting', Gallery of Modern Art (2008), 'Why we want stuff', Institute of Modern Art (2007) and Queensland Art Gallery 'The art of Fiona Hall' (2006).