followthethings.com is a resource and output for coursework produced, among others, by students at the University of Exeter taking a final year module called ‘Geographies of Material Culture’.

Each year, a list of non-academic and academic readings is put together for the module in response to students’ interests, detective work, and the questions they post on the module’s blog.

Each year it’s different and takes space in strange and unexpected ways.

Each year, when the module is over, we share the list here. This is the 2018-19 version.

We hope you find some gems in here. If you have suggestions, let us know in the comments.

Non-academic readings

Anon (2014) Westfield mass arrests the result of ‘police obsession with intelligence-gathering about political protest’. NetPol 29 December [read here]

Bowstead, H. (2014) Developing global perspectives on sustainability with followthethings.com. followtheblog.org 30 September [read here]

Bui, Q. & Wee, S-L (2018) How China took over your TV. New York Times 18 November [read here]

Buckby, T. (2013) Shirt. tonibuckby.com [read here]

Busby, E. (2018) Less than half of student tuition fees income spent on teaching, report suggests. The independent 22 November [read here]

Chang, H-J (2011) Anti-capitalist? Too simple. Occupy can be the catalyst for a radical rethink. The guardian 15 November [read here]

Childs, G. (2017) Step away from the weapon. followtheblog.org 10 February [read here]

Chua, J.M. (2015) “Fair Trade” Clothing Labels Expose Truth About Sweatshops. Ecouterre 30 March [read here]

Clark, T. (2012) The Mensch Fallacy. Another Angry Voice 25 April [read here]

Cole, T. (2012) The White-Savior Industrial Complex. The Atlantic 21 March [read here]

Cook et al, I. (2013a) What if Easter bunnies knew the truth about chocolate?  followtheblog.org 17 March [read here]

Cook et al, I. (2013b) Defining the ‘living wage’ bananas* want farmers to be paid. followtheblog.org 20 January [read here]

Cook et al, I. (2014a) The 16 best examples of shop-dropping… ever. followtheblog.org 22 March [read here]

Cook et al, I. (2014b) Where presents come from: Santa knows! followtheblog.org 23 December [read here]

Cook et al, I. (2017) What to do if you find a cry for help in your Christmas presents this year. The Conversation 22 December [read here]

Cooke, R. (2009) Important artifacts and personal property from the collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, including books, street fashion and Jewelry by Leanne Shapton. The observer, 29 November [read here]

Corbin, S. & Read. M. (2012) Guerrilla Projection. in Boyd, A. (comp) Beautiful trouble: a toolbox for revolution. New York: O/R [read here]

Denney. S. (2012) Craftivist Collective: Threads of Change. Huck  26 April [read here]

Ditty, S. (2018) Fashion Transparency Index: 2018 edition. Ashbourne: Fashion Revolution [read here]

Ferri, J. (2009) An interview with Leanne Shapton. Bookslut April [read here]

Goodley, S. (2017) Sports Direct workers paid less than minimum wage yet to get back pay. The Guardian 28 March [read here]

Kelly, J. (2018) The SOS in my Halloween decorations. BBC News 29 October [read here]

Greenhouse, A. (2012) Passionate attachment: how people are using stickers for activism. The Electronic Intifada 27 September [read here]

Lambert, J. (2015) Milkybar buttons & child slavery: primary children write to Nestle. followtheblog.org  17 January [read here]

Lawrence, L. (2009) Mirror. followthethings.com [read here]

Lebsack, L. (2019) The makeup industry’s darkest secret is hiding in your makeup bag. Refinery 29 6 May [read here]

Moss, G. (2015) Why Do Some Farts Smell Like Eggs? 5 Different Types of Flatulence, Decoded For Your Reading Pleasure. Bustle 27 January [read here]

RachKuo (2014) </3 Less than Three and Up Srei: Art and the Cambodian Worker Struggle. Actipedia 30 January [read here]

Regine (2017) Vegetable smuggling, grimy goods and other retail sabotages. An interview with Louise Ashcroft. We make money not art 23 August [read here]

Ruwanpura, K. (2016) Living Wages: The Achilles Heel of the Sri Lankan Garment Industry? fashionrevolution.org [read here]

Temperton, J. (2018) The gig economy is being fuelled by exploitation, not innovation. Wired 8 February [read here]

Vincent, J. (2018) This beautiful map shows everything that powers an Amazon Echo, from data mines to lakes of lithium. The Verge 9 September [read here]

Warren, R. (2018) You buy a purse at Walmart. There’s a note inside from a “Chinese prisoner.” Now what? Vox 10 October [read here]

Woolf, S. (2017) Dear iPhone Girl. followtheblog.org 11 February [read here]

Wright, E. O. (2018) How to be an anticapitalist now. Jacobin magazine 12 February [read here]

Academic readings

Alamo, S. (2016) Oceanic Origins, Plastic Activism, and New Materialism at Sea. in her Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 111-141 [read here]

Angus, T., Cook, I. & Evans, J. (2001) A Manifesto for Cyborg Pedagogy. International Research in Geographical & Environmental Education, 10(2), 195-201 [read here]

Appadurai, A. (1986) Introduction: commodities & the politics of value. in Appadurai, A. (ed) The social life of things: commodities in cultural perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 3-63 [read here]

Aronson, B. (2017) The White Savior Industrial Complex: A Cultural Studies Analysis of a Teacher Educator, Savior Film, and Future Teachers. Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis 6(3), 36-54 [read here]

Askins, K. (2009) ‘That’s just what I do’: placing emotion in academic activism. Emotion, space & society 2(1), 4-13 [read here]

Awcock, H. (forthcoming) Stickin’ it to the Man: The Geographies of Protest Stickers. Area [read here]

Bailey, P. (1996) Breaking the sound barrier: a historian listens to noise. Body & society 2(2), 49-66 [read here]

Bakan, A. & Abu-Laban, Y. (2009) Palestinian resistance and international solidarity: the BDS campaign. Race and Class 51(1), 29-54 [read here]

Banet-Weiser, S. & Mukherjee, R. (2012) Introduction: commodity activism in neoliberal times. in their (ed) Commodity activism. New York: New York University Press, 1-21 [read here]

Barlow, A. (2012) Tools of the trade. Primary Geography 79 (Autumn), 22-3 [available on ELE]

Barnett, C. (2011) Geography and ethics: justice unbound. Progress in human geography 35(2) 246–255 [read here]

Barrientos, S. (2016) Beyond Fair Trade. in Squicciarini, M. & Swinnen, J. (eds) The economics of chocolate. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 213-227[read here or here]

Beckles, H. (2007) ‘Slavery was a long, long time ago’: remembrance, reconciliation and the reparations discourse in the Caribbean. Ariel: a review of international english literature 38(1), 9-25 [read here]

Bennett, J. (2001) Commodity fetishism and commodity enchantment. in her The enchantment of modern life. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 111-130 [download here]

Bennett, J. (2001) The wonder of minor experiences. The enchantment of modern life: attachments, crossings, ethics. Princeton: Princeton University press, 3-16 [read here]

Bennett, J. (2010) Vibrant matter: a political ecology of things. London: Duke University Press [read here]

Benson, P. (2018) Tobacco Capitalism, an Afterword: Open Letters and Open Wounds in Anthropology. Journal for the Anthropology of North America 21(1), 21–34 [read here]

Benton-Greig, P., Gamage, D. & Gavey, N. (2018) Doing and denying sexism: online responses to a New Zealand feminist campaign against sexist advertising. Feminist Media Studies 18(3), 349-365 [read here]

Berg, L., Huijbens, E. & Larsen, H. (2016) Producing anxiety in the neoliberal university. The Canadian Geographer | Le Géographe canadien 60(2), 168–180 [read here]

Berlan, A. (2008) Making or marketing a difference? An anthropological examination of fair trade cocoa from Ghana. Research in Economic Anthropology 28, 171–194 [read here]

Bernaerts, L., Caracciolo, M., Herman, L. & Vervaeck, B. (2014) The storied lives of non-human narrators. Narrative 22(1), 6893 [read here]

Bezanson, R. & Finkelman, A. (2009) Trespassory art. University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 43(2), 245-322 [download here]

Blackwell, M. (2004) The It-Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England: Animals and Objects in Circulation. Literature Compass 1(4), 1-5 [read here]

Böge, S. (1995) The well-travelled yoghurt pot: lessons for new freight transport policies and regional production. World Transport Policy & Practice 1(1), 7-11 [read here]

Bolay, M. (2014) When miners become “foreigners”: Competing categorizations within gold mining spaces in Guinea. Resources Policy 40, 117-127 [read here]

Bonanno, M. (2012) Barbie Liberation Organisation. in Boyd, A. (comp) Beautiful trouble: a toolbox for revolution. New York: O/R [read here]

Boyd, A. (comp) (2012) Beautiful trouble: a toolbox for revolution. New York: O/R [read here]

Boyd, A. & Mitchell, D. (2012) The Beautiful Trouble Manifesto, in Boyd, A. (comp). Beautiful trouble: a toolbox for revolution. New York: O/R [read here]

Campion, H. (2015) Behind the seams…the story of a £4 T-Shirt. Teaching geography Spring, 26-28 [available on ELE]

Brassett, J. (2009) British irony, global justice: a pragmatic reading of Chris Brown, Banksy & Ricky Gervais.  Review of international studies 35, 219-245 [read here]

Brown, G. & Pickerell, J. (2009) Space for emotion in the spaces of activism. Emotion, space & society 2, 24-35 [read here]

Bullert, B.J. (2000) Strategic public relations, sweatshops and the making of a global movement. Seattle: University of Washington Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy [read here]

Cameron, J. (2015) Can poverty be funny? The serious use of humour as a strategy of public engagement for global justice. Third World Quarterly 36(2), 274-290 [read here]

Carr, C. (2017) Maintenance and repair beyond the perimeter of the plant: linking industrial labour and the home. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 42(4), 642-654 [read here]

Castree, N. (2001) Commentary: commodity fetishism, geographical imaginations and imaginative geographies. Environment and Planning A 33(9), 1519–1525 [read here]

Chan, A. (2002) The culture of survival: lives of migrant workers through the prism of private letters. In Link, P., Madsen, R. & Pickowicz, P. (eds) Popular China: unofficial culture in a globalizing society. Boulder: Rowman & Littlefield, 163-188 [download here]

Chan, J. (2013) A suicide survivor: the life of a Chinese worker. New Technology, Work and Employment 28(2), 84-99 [read here]

Chapman, A. & Linderoth, J. (2015) Exploring the limits of play: a case study of Nazism in games. in Mortensen, T., Linderoth, J. & Brown, A. (eds) The dark side of game play: controversial issues in playful environments. London: Routledge, 137-153 [read here]

Childs, J. (2014) A new means of governing artisanal and small-scale mining? Fairtrade gold and development in Tanzania. Resources policy 40, 128–136 [read here]

Christophers, B. (2011) Follow the thing: money. Environment & planning D: society & space. 29(6), 1068-1084 [read here]

Clare, H. (2006) Made in Cambodia. Undergraduate Geography dissertation, University of Birmingham [read here]

Clarke, A. (2014) Theories of material agency and practice: a guide to collecting urban material culture. Museum anthropology 37(1), 17–26 [read here]

Clarke, N. (2008) From ethical consumerism to political consumption. Geography compass 2(6), 1870-1884 [read here]

Clarke, N., Barnett, C., Cloke, P. & Malpass, A. (2007) Globalising the consumer: Doing politics in an ethical register. Political Geography  26, 231- 249 [read here]

Cohen, L.H. (1997) The fetish. in her Glass, paper, beans: revelations on the nature & value of ordinary things.New York: Doubleday, 199-252 [8 copies in the library]

Cook, I. (2000) ‘Nothing Can Ever Be the Case of ”Us” and ”Them” Again’: Exploring the politics of difference through border pedagogy and student journal writing. Journal of geography in higher education 24(1), 13-27 [read here]

Cook et al, I. (2002) Commodities: the DNA of capitalism. http://followtheblog.org (last accessed 28 September 2015) [read here]

Cook et al, I. (2004) Follow the thing: papaya. Antipode, 36(4), 642-664 [read here]

Cook et al, I. (2006) Geographies of food: following. Progress in human geography 30(5), 655-666 [read here]

Cook et al, I. (2016) Les géographies du numérique: on en veut encore! | More digital geographies, please. Justice Spatiale | Spatial Justice, 10 [read here]

Cook et al, I. (2017) followthethings.com: analysing relations between the making, reception and impact of commodity activism in a transmedia world. In Söderström O, Kloetzer L (Eds.) Innovations sociales: comment les sciences sociales transforment la société, Neuchátel, Switzerland: University of Neuchátel, 46-60 [read here]

Cook, I. (2011) iPhone 3G – already with pictures! (aka ‘iPhone Girl’). followthethings.com [read here]

Cook, I. & Crang, P. (1996) The world on a plate: culinary culture, displacement & geographical knowledges. Journal of material culture 1(2), 131-153 [read here]

Cook, I. & Harrison, M. (2007) Follow the thing: ‘West Indian hot pepper sauce’. Space and culture 10(1), 40-63 [read here]

Cook, I. & Tolia-Kelly, D. (2010) Material geographies. in Hicks, D. & Beaudry, M. (eds) The Oxford handbook of material culture studies. Oxford: Blackwell, p.99-122 [read here]

Cook, I. & Woodyer, T. (2012) Lives of things. in Sheppard, E., Barnes, T. & Peck, P. (eds) The Wiley Blackwell companion to economic geography. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 226-241 [read here]

Cook, I., Evans, J., Griffiths, H., Morris, R., Wrathmell, S. et al. (2007) ‘It’s more than just what it is’: defetishising commodities, expanding fields, mobilising change…  Geoforum 38(6), 1113-1126 [read here]

Coombes, G. (2012) Park(ing) day. Contexts 11(3), 64-65 [read here]

Corbett, S. & Housley, S. (2011) The Craftivist Collective Guide to Craftivism. Utopian Studies 22(2), 344-351 [read here]

Cova, B. & D’Antone, S. (2016) Brand Iconicity vs. Anti-Consumption Well-Being Concerns: The Nutella Palm Oil Conflict. Journal of consumer affairs  Spring, 166–192 [read here]

Crang, M. & Cook, I. (2007) Doing ethnographies. London: Sage [montage section, 177-202] [read here]

Crang, P. (2013) The geographies of material culture. in P. Cloke, P. Crang & M. Goodwin (eds) Introducing Human Geographies. (Second edition) London: Arnold, 276-291 [read here]

Crewe, L. (2008) Ugly beautiful?: Counting the cost of the global fashion Industry. Geography 93(1), 25-33 [read here]

Crewe, L. (2011) Life itemised: lists, loss, unexpected significance, and the enduring geographies of discard. Society & space 29, 27-46 [read here]

Crewe, L. (2017) The geographies of fashion: consumption, space, and value. London: Bloomsbury [read here]

Cuff, B., Brown, S., Taylor, L. & Howat, D. (2016) Empathy: a review of the concept. Emotion review 8(2), 144-153 [read here]

da Silva, P. D. & Garcia, J. L. (2012) YouTubers as satirists: humour and remix in online video. Journal of Democracy 4(1), 89-114 [read here]

Dant, T. (1996) Fetishism & the social value of objects. Sociological review 44(3), 495-516 [read here]

Daya, S. (2014) Beyond exploitation/empowerment: re-imagining Southern producers in commodity stories. Social & Cultural Geography 15(7), 812-833 [read here]

DeLaure, M. & Fink, M. (eds) (2017) Culture jamming: activism and the art of cultural resistance. New York: New York University Press [read here]

Demos, T.J. (2010) Another world, and another… notes on Uneven Geographies. in Demos, T.J. & Farquharson, A. (2010) Uneven geographies (exhibition catalogue). Nottingham: Nottingham Contemporary, 11-19 [read here]

De Neve, G. (2014) Fordism, flexible specialization and CSR: How Indian garment workers critique neoliberal labour regimes. Ethnography 15(2), 184–207 [read here]

Dittmer, J. (2005) Captain America’s Empire: Reflections on Identity, Popular Culture, and Post-9/11 Geopolitics. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 95(3), 626–643 [read here]

Ditty, S. (2015) It’s time for a fashion revolution: white paper. Ashbourne: Fashion Revolution [read here]

Ditty, S., Cook, I., Hunter, L., Futerra & Blanchard, T. (2018) How to be a fashion revolutionary (2nd. ed). Ashbourne: Fashion Revolution [read here]

Dobson, J. (2017) From ‘me towns’ to ‘we towns’: activist citizenship in UK town centres. Citizenship Studies 21(8), 1015-1033 [read here]

Dolez, P. & Bennadi, H. (2018) Toxicity testing of textiles. in Dolez, P., Vermeersch, O. & Izquierdo, V. (eds) Advanced Characterization and Testing of Textiles. Duxford: Woodhead, 151-188 [read here]

Douglas, K. (2006) Witnessing on the Web: Asylum Seekers and LetterWriting Projects on Australian Activist Websites. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 21(1), 44-57 [read here]

Drobnick, J. (2018) Smell, Terrorism and Performance. Performance Research, 23(4-5), 355-361 [read here]

Dubrule, N. (1985) Pineapple. Framework 0(26),16-24 [read here]

Dumit, J. (2014) Writing the implosion: teaching the world one thing at a time. Current anthropology 29(2),344–362 [read here]

Duncombe, S. (2016) Does it work?: The Æffect of activist art. Social Research 83(1), 115-134 [read here]

Duncombe, S. (2012) It stands on its head: commodity fetishism, consumer activism, and the strategic use of fantasy. Culture & Organization 18(5), 359-375 [read here]

Ellsworth, E. (1989) Why doesn’t this feel empowering? Working through the repressive myths of critical pedagogy.  Harvard Education Review 59(3), 297-324 [download from ELE]

Emmerson, P. (2016) Doing comic geographies. Cultural geographies  23(4), 721-725 [read here]

Evans, J., Cook, I. & Griffiths, H. (2007) Creativity, group pedagogy & social action: a departure from Gough. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 40(2), 330-345 [read here]

Fisher, T. (2004) What we touch, touches us: materials, affects and affordances.  Design issues 20(4), 20-31 [download from ELE]

Fletcher, K. (2012) Durability, Fashion, Sustainability: The Processes and Practices of Use.  Fashion Practice 4(2), 221-238 [read here]

Foster, R. (2006) Tracking globalization: commodities and value in motion. Tilley, C., Keane, W., Kuchler, S., Rowlands, M. & Spyer, P. (eds) Handbook of material culture. London: Sage. 285-302 [download here]

Freidberg, S. (2004) The ethical complex of corporate food power. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 22(4), 513–531 [read here]

Freire, P. (2005) The banking concept of education. in Bartholomae, D. (ed) Ways of reading (7th ed). New York: St Martin’s Press, 255-267 [download from ELE]

Fuller, M. (2008) Art methodologies in media ecology. in O’Sullivan, S. & Zepke, S. (eds) Deleuze, Guattari and the production of the new. London: Continuum, 45-57 [download here]

Gablik, S. (1002) Connective aesthetics. American art, winter, 2-7 [read here]

Gibson-Graham, J-K (2008) Diverse economies: performative practices for ‘other worlds’. Progress in human geography 32(5), 613–632 [read here]

Giddings, S. & Harvey, A. (2018) Introduction to Special Issue Ludic Economies: Ludic Economics 101. Games & culture 13(7), 647-651 [read here]

Gilbert, E. (2011) Follow the Thing: Credit. Response to “Follow the Thing: Money”. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space  29, 1085-1088 [read here]

Gold, S. & Heikkurinen, P. (2018) Transparency fallacy: Unintended consequences of  stakeholder claims on responsibility in supply chains. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 31(1), 318-337 [read here]

Goodman, M. (2004) Reading fair trade: political ecological imaginary and the moral economy of fair trade foods. Political Geography 23, 891–915 [read here]

Goodman, M. & Littler, J. (2013) Celebrity Ecologies: Introduction. Celebrity Studies 4(3), 269-275 [read here]

Gough, N. (2004) RhizomANTically Becoming-cyborg: performing posthuman pedagogies. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 36, 253–265 [read here]

Grant, R. (2015) findyourdoppelganger. followthethings.com [read here]

Gregson, N., Crang, M., Ahamed, F., Akhter, N. & Ferdous, R. (2010) Following things of rubbish value: End-of-life ships, ‘chock-chocky’ furniture and the Bangladeshi middle class consumer. Geoforum 41, 846-854 [read here]

Gregson, N. & Crang, M. (2017) Illicit economies: customary illegality, moral economies and circulation. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 42, 206–219 [read here]

Grindon, G. & Flood, C. (2014) Disobedient objects. London: V&A [read here]

Grosser, K. & Moon, J. (2017) CSR and Feminist Organization Studies: Towards an Integrated Theorization for the Analysis of Gender Issues. Journal of business ethics (online early)[read here]

Guglielmo, J. (2010) Transnational Feminism’s Radical Past: Lessons from Italian Immigrant Women Anarchists in Industrializing America.  Journal of Women’s History 22(1), 10-33 [read here]

Guglielmo, J. (2013) Sweatshop Feminism: Italian Women’s Political Culture In New York City’s Needle Trades, 1890–1919. in Bender, D. & Greenwald, R. (eds) Sweatshop USA. New York, Routledge, 184-200 [read most of it here or look at the ‘Held at’ list here and if you have a friend at one of those unis ask them to send you a pdf copy]

Hackney, F. (2015) Quiet activism and the new amateur. Design and culture  5(2), 169-193 [read here]

Hall, S. (1991) Old and new identities, old and new ethnicities. in Anthony King (ed) Culture, Globalisation and the World System. London: Macmillan, 41-68 [read here]

Hansson, N & Jacobsson, K. (2014) Learning to Be Affected: Subjectivity, Sense, and Sensibility in Animal Rights Activism. Society & Animals 22(3), 262-288 [read here]

Haraway, D. (1991) A cyborg manifesto: science, technology and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century. in her Simians, cyborgs and women: the reinvention of nature. New York: Routledge, 149-181 [read here].

Haraway, D. & Gane, M. (2006) When we have never been human, what is to be done? Interview with Donna Haraway. Theory, culture & society 23(7-8), 135-158 [read here]

Harold, C. (2004) Pranking rhetoric: “culture jamming” as media activism. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 21(3), 189-211 [read here]

Hart, J. (2014) ‘I found this in a box of Halloween decorations’.   followthethings.com [read here]

Hartwick, E. (2000) Towards a geographical politics of consumption. Environment & planning A 32(7), 1177-92 [read here]

Harvey, D. (1990) Between space and time: reflections on the geographical imagination. Annals, Association of American Geographers 80(3), 418-434 [read here]

Harvey, D. (2010) Commodities and exchange. in his A companion to Marx’s Capital.  London: Verso, 15-53 [download and carefully read 38-47 here]

Hauser, K. (2004) A garment in the dock: or how the FBI illuminated the prehistory of a pair of denim jeans. Journal of material culture  9(3), 293–313 [read here]

Hawkins, H., Sacks, S., Cook, I., Rawling, E., Griffiths, H., Swift, D., Evans, J., Rothnie, G., Wilson, J., Williams, A., Feenay, K., Gordon, L., Prescott, H., Murphy, C., Allen, D., Mitchell, T., Wheeldon, R., Roberts, M., Robinson, G., Flaxman, P., Fuller, D., Lovell, T. & Askins, K. (2013) Organic public geographies: ‘making the connection’. Antipode 43(3), 909-926 [read here]

Hayes-Conroy, J. & Hayes-Conroy, A. (2010) Visceral geographies: mattering, relating, and defying. Geography compass 4(9), p.1273–1283 [read here]

Heyman, R. (2001) Why advocacy isn’t enough: realising the radical possibilities of the classroom. International Research in Geographical & Environmental Education, 10(2), 174-8 [read here]

Heyman, R. (2004) Inventing geography: writing as a social justice pedagogy. Journal of Geography 103, 139-152 [read here]

Hobson, J. (2017) Celebrity Feminism: More than a Gateway. Signs 42(4), 999-1007 [read here]

Hirscher, A.  (2013) Fashion Activism Evaluation and Application of Fashion Activism Strategies to Ease Transition Towards Sustainable Consumption Behaviour. Research Journal of Textile and Apparel, 17(1), 23-38 [download from ELE]

Hobbs, W. & Roberts, M. (2018) How Sudden Censorship Can Increase Access to Information. American political science review 112(3), 621–636 [read here]

Hockenberry, M. (2018) Material Epistemologies of the (Mobile) Telephone. Anthropological Quarterly 91(2), 485-524 [read here]

Holmes, J. & Meredith, M. (2002) Having a laugh at work: how humour contributes to workplace culture. Journal of Pragmatics 34, 1683–1710 [download here]

hooks, b. (1994) Teaching to transgress. London: Routledge [read here]

Horton, J. & Kraftl, P. (2013) Material things. in their Cultural geographies: an introduction. London: Routledge, 200-221 [read here]

Hudson, I. & Hudson, M. (2003) Removing the veil? Commodity fetishism, fair trade, and the environment. Organization & Environment 16(4), 413-430 [read here]

Hughes, A., Morrison, E. & Ruwanpura, K. (2018) Public sector procurement and ethical trade: Governance and social responsibility in some hidden global supply chains. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (online early) [read here]

Hulme, A. (2015) On the commodity trail. London: Bloomsbury [read here]

Hulme, A. (2017) Following the (unfollowable) thing: methodological considerations in the era of high globalisation. Cultural geographies 24(1), 157–160 [read here]

Kabir, H., Maple, M. & Fatema, S. (2018) Vulnerabilities of Women Workers in the Readymade Garment Sector of Bangladesh: A Case Study of Rana Plaza. Journal of International Women’s Studies 19(6), 224-235 [read here]

Ingold, T. (2007) Materials against materiality. Archaeological dialogues 14 (1), p.1–16 [read here]

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