Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Current position: Senior Lecturer in Sociology, School of Criminology, Education, Sociology and
Social Work, and Director of Postgraduate Training (Social Sciences), Keele University.
Qualifications: Ph.D. University of Glasgow, M.A. Social Sciences (Joint Honours in Sociology and
Political Economy) University of Glasgow.
Selected Publications
Casey, E and Martens, L (Eds.) (2007) Gender and Consumption: Domestic Cultures, Intimate Life and
Markets, Ashgate.
Martens, L and Casey, E (2007) Afterword: Theorising Gender and Consumption, in Casey, E and
Martens, L (Eds.) Gender and Consumption: Material Culture and the Commercialisation of
Everyday Life, Ashgate.
Martens, L (2007) The Visible and Invisible: (De)regulation in contemporary cleaning practices. In
Rosie Cox and Ben Campkin (Eds.) (2007) Dirt: New Geographies of Cleanliness and
Contamination. London: I.B. Taurus.
Martens, L and Scott, S (2006) Under the Kitchen Surface: Domestic products and conflicting
constructions of home. Home Cultures. Vol 3(1).
Martens, L and Scott, S (2005) ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Cleaning’: Representations of Domestic
Practice and Products in Good Housekeeping Magazine (UK): 1951–2001. Consumption,
Markets and Culture. Vol 8(3): 371-409.
Martens, L (2005) Learning to Consume - Consuming to Learn: Children at the interface between
consumption and education. British Journal of Sociology of Education. Vol. 26 (3) 343-357.
Martens, L, Southerton, D and Scott, S (2004) Bringing Children (and Parents) into the Sociology of
Consumption: Towards a theoretical and empirical agenda. Journal of Consumer Culture. Vol
4(2):155-182.
Warde, A and Martens, L (2000) Eating Out: Social Differentiation, Consumption and Pleasure,
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge xi + 246p.
Martens, L and Warde, A (1999) Power and Resistance around the Dinner Table, in Hearn, J &
Roseneil, S eds, Consuming Cultures: Power and Resistance, MacMillan, London, 91-108.
‘The Cute, the Spectacle and the Practical: Narratives of new parents and babies at The Baby Show’,
invited paper presentation at the Sociology Seminar Series, Keele University, October 2007.
‘Doing the Dirty Work: Researching Kitchen Practices,’ invited lecture for the British Sociological
Association’s Food Study Group, University of Westminster, September 2007.
‘The Home is a Safe Haven, or is it? Constructions of everyday life in cleaning products’, invited paper
for the Research Institute for Life Course Studies Launch event, Keele University, January
2007.
‘Pleasure or Problem?: Contemporary cultural constructions around children’s food consumption in
affluent societies’, invited lecture at the ESRC seminar series Food Consumption Dilemmas in
a Global Context, Cardiff University, November, 2005.
‘Safety, Safety, Safety for Small Fry’: The conjoining of children and danger in representations of
domestic products’, invited presentation for the spot-light session “Redefining Childhood and
Adulthood in Consumer Culture” at the Childhood2005 conference in Olso, Norway, June
2005. Also at SIFO (National Institute for Consumer Research, Norway), June 2005.
‘Getting under the Kitchen Surface: Interconnecting consumer culture and domestic practices’, invited
lecture at the Environment Research Group Seminar Series, School of City and Regional
Planning, Cardiff University, April 2005.
‘Learning to Consume - Consuming to Learn: Children at the interface between consumption and
education’, invited keynote address at The Commercialised Childhood Research Seminar,
Danish University of Education, June 2004.
‘Children at the Interface between Consumption and Education’, invited lecture presented at the ESRC
seminar series ‘Reconfiguring Sociology of Education’, Graduate School of Education,
University of Bristol, December 2003.
‘Germs and Domestic Consumption’, invited lecture presented at the Sociology Department Seminar
Series, Sheffield University, April 2003.
Offices held
2000-2008 Honorary Fellow in the Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition (CRIC),
The University of Manchester.
2001-2004 Convenor of the BSA Consumption Study Group
2004-2006 Chair of the International Strategies in Qualitative Research Conference Planning
Group
2007 Co-convenor of the European Sociological Association Consumption Study Network