Roberta Sassatelli

Sociologist with an interdisciplinary perspective.

My research combines social theory, historical perspective and ethnography exploring themes such as embodiment, material culture, and the normative dimensions of consumption as related to critical theories of the commodity and modernity. Currently co-editor of European Journal of Sociology/Archives Européennes de Sociologie, I co-edit the series Consumption and Public Life at Palgrave MacMillan. I have recently worked on body and gender, moral capitalism, personalization and affective labour, the cultural role of economic elites, the conspicuous dimensions of sustainable consumption and the epistemology of interdisciplinarity.