The Social Life of Materials. Studies in Materials and Society

Preface

Part I: Introduction
1. To Live in a Materials World
Adam Drazin, University College London, UK

Part II: On Materials Innovation
2. What\'s in a Plant Leaf? A Case Study of Materials Innovation in New Zealand
Graeme Were, University of Queensland, Australia
3. Pharmaceutical Matters: The Invention of Informed Materials 
Andrew Barry, Oxford University, UK
4. Towards Designing New Sensoaesthetic Materials: The Role of Materials Libraries
Mark Miodownik, University College London, UK
5. The Science of Sensory Evaluation: An Ethnographic Critique
David Howes, Concordia University, Canada


Part III: From Substance to Form
6. Wild Silk Indigo Wrappers of Dogon of Mali: An Ethnography of Materials Efficacy and Design
Laurence Douny, University College London, UK
7. Fashioning Plastic: Changing Materials in Design
Tom Fisher, University of Nottingham, UK
8. Dressing for God: Cloth as Material of Religious Subjectivity in a Hindu Group 
Urmila Mohan, University College London, UK

Part IV: The Subversion of Form by Substance
9. Introducing Fairtrade and Fairmined Gold: An Attempt to Reconfigure the Social Identity of a Substance
Peter Oakley, Royal College of Art, UK
10. Subversive Plasticity: Materials\' Histories and Cultural Categories in the Philippines
Deirdre McKay, Keele University, UK
11. Diamonds, Machines and Colors: Moving Materials in Ritual Exchange
Filipe Calvao, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland

Part V: Ecologies of Materials\' Social Lives
12. Sustainability and the Co-constitution of Substances and Subjects
Sarah Wilkes, University College London, UK
13. The Peony and the Rose: Social Change and Fragrance Marketing in China\'s Bath Market
Chan Chow Wah, independent scholar, Singapore
14. The Woollen Blanket and its Imagined Values: Material Transformations of Woollen Blankets in Contemporary ARt
Fiona P. McDonald, University College London, UK

The Implications of Materials Innovation and Disposal
15. Materials: The Story of Use
Susanne Küchler, University College London, UK

Index