Griffith University

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

Research and Publications

Books

• Skrbis, Z., and Woodward, I. Cosmopolitanism. Uses of the Idea, London: Sage, Theory, Culture and Society Book Series (forthcoming 2013)
• Bennett, A.., Back, L., Edles, L., Gibson, M., Inglis, D., Jacobs, R., Woodward. I. 2012. Cultural Sociology. An Introduction, Oxford: Blackwell.
• Kendall, G., Woodward, I., Skrbis, Z.  2009. The Sociology of Cosmopolitanism, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Woodward, I. 2007. Understanding Material Culture, London: Sage.
  *(Italian translation in preparation by Valerio Bernardi for Italia per Edizioni di Pagina) 

Major research reports

• Ellison, D., Keys, W., Kukucka, S., and Woodward, I. 2011. Sustaining Culture and the Role of Performing Arts Centres: Audiences. Griffith University, Centre for Cultural Research. ISBN 978-0-646-55691-8.
  

Publications in refereed journals

(1) In the field of consumption, material culture, aesthetics

• Scott, A., and Woodward, I. (Nov. 2011) ‘Living with design objects. A Qualitative Study of iPod Relationships’, in, Design Principles and Practices. An International Journal, 5(6): 499-508.
• Woodward, I (2011) ‘Towards an object-relations theory of consumerism. The aesthetics of desire and the unfolding materiality of social life.’ In, Journal of Consumer Culture. 11: 366.
• Woodward, I., and Ellison. D. 2010. ‘Theorising aesthetic experience. The fusion of audience and aesthetic objects in the arts’, Thesis Eleven, 103(1): 45-53, Special Issue on Cultural Sociology and the Art Object.
• Woodward, I. 2009. ‘Narrativas divergentes en el imaginario del hogar entre consumidores de clase media: estética, confort y los límites simbólicos del si-mismo y el hogar’, Figuraciones, Teoria y Critica Des Artes, 6 (2009).
• Woodward, I., and Emmison, M. 2009. ‘The intellectual reception of Bourdieu in Australian Social Sciences and Humanities’, Sociologica, 2-3 (2009): 1-22.
• 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.
• 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.
  * (Winner ‘Best Paper Award’ for Journal of Sociology, 2003-2004, voted by Editorial Board from over 40 other published entries.)
  * Reprinted in Warde, 'Consumption', Sage, 2010.
  * Translated into Spanish by Cecilia Sluga, 2010, for the journal Figuraciones, Teoria y Critica Des Artes
• Woodward, I., and Emmison, M. 2001. ‘From aesthetic principles to collective sentiments: the logics of everyday judgements of taste’, Poetics, 29(6): 295-316.
• Woodward, I. 2001. ‘Domestic objects and the taste epiphany: a resource for consumption methodology’ Journal of Material Culture, 6(2): 115-36.
• 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.
  

(2) In the field of cosmopolitanism studies

• 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.
• Skrbis, Z., and Woodward, I. 2007. ‘The ambivalence of ordinary cosmopolitanism: Investigating the limits of cosmopolitan openness’ The Sociological Review, 55:4, 730-747.
      * Reprinted in Inglis and Delanty, 'Cosmopolitanism', 2010.
• 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.
      *Reprinted in Inglis and Delanty, 'Cosmopolitanism', 2010
  

Edited collections and 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
• Bennett, A., Taylor, J., and Woodward, I. The Festivalisation of Culture, Ashgate. (contracted, forthcoming 2012).

Book chapters & entries

(1) In the field of consumption, material culture, aesthetics

• Woodward, I (2012) ‘Consumption as cultural interpretation. Taste, performativity and navigating the forest of objects’ In Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology, Edited by Alexander, J.C., Smith, P., and Jacobs, R. Oxford University Press.
• Woodward, I., and Ellison, D. (2012) ‘How to make an Iconic Commodity: The Case of Penfolds’ Grange Wine’, In Alexander, J.C.,  Giesen, B., and Bartmanski, D. Iconic Power. Materiality and Meaning in Social Life. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Cummings, J., Woodward, I., and Bennett, A. (2011) 'Festival Spaces, Green Sensibilities and Youth Culture', In Delanty,G., Giorgi, L., and Sassatelli, M. Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere.  London: Routledge.
• Woodward, I. (2011) ‘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. (2011) ‘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. (2011) ‘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. (2011) ‘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. (2011) ‘Methodologies for studying consumer culture’, In Southerton, D., Crane, D., Jackson, P., Wilk, R., Ekstrom, K., Trentmann, F., and Warde, A., Encyclopaedia of Consumer Culture, Sage Publications, London. 6000 word major piece.
• Woodward, I. (2010). ‘Divergent narratives in the imagining of the home amongst middle-class consumers: aesthetics, comfort and the symbolic boundaries of self and home’, Reprinted in Warde, A. Consumption, London: Routledge.
• Woodward, I (2010) ‘Mobilities’, In, Jackson, R.L. Encyclopaedia of Identity, Sage Publications, London
• Woodward, I (2010) ‘Modernity and postmodernity’, In, Jackson, R.L. Encyclopaedia of Identity, Sage Publications, London.
• 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.
• Woodward, I. (2005) ‘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.
  

(2) In the field of cosmopolitanism studies

• Woodward, I., and Skrbis, Z. (2012) ‘Performing Cosmopolitanism’, In Delanty, G. (2012) Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies, London: Routledge.
• Skrbis, Z., and Woodward, I. (2011) ‘Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Openness’ In, Rovisco, M., and Nowicka, M. The Ashgate Companion to Cosmopolitanism.
• Skrbis, Z., and Woodward, I. (2010). ‘The ambivalence of ordinary cosmopolitanism: Investigating the limits of cosmopolitan openness’, In, Inglis, D., and Delanty, G. Cosmopolitanism. London: Routledge.
• Skrbis, Z., Kendall, G., and Woodward, I. (2010). ‘Locating Cosmopolitanism: Between Humanist Ideal and Grounded Social Category’, In, Inglis, D., and Delanty, G. Cosmopolitanism. London: Routledge.
  

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).