About Us

The Consumption Research Network is being developed as a broad initiative of the Anti-Consumerism in the Contemporary West project.

There are many people around Australia within higher education and government and non-government sectors working on aspects of consumption, consumer cultures and sustainability. However, we know of no present action to provide a means of identifying these individuals (and organisations) and facilitating contact between them. The Consumption Research Network is a modest attempt to provide this avenue of interdisciplinary and cross-sector information sharing.

The network lists people and organisations in Australia working on the social, historical, cultural, economic and environmental aspects of consumption, over consumption and sustainability. At present the network is not a 'group mail' list, but simply provides brief details on individual researchers and how to contact them.

PLEASE NOTE: The Consumption Research Network is no longer operative as funding for the site (as an offshoot of the Anti-Consumerism in the Contemporary West Project) ends in 2007.

This website has been left as an existing service and we hope to reactivate it in 2008.