Dr Matthias Zick Varul
Publications
Books
Geld und Gesundheit: Konsum als Transformation von Geld in Moral [Money and Health: Consumption as Transformation of Money into Morality], Berlin, Logos Verlag, 2004.
Chapters
The Healthy Body as Religious Territory: Health Consumerism as New Religious Practice?, in Emerging Geographies of Belief, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2011
with E Adey, RK Shail, F Wall, P Whitbread-Abrutat, C Baciu, T Ejdemo, I Lovric, V Udachin, Corporate social responsibility within the mining industry: case studies from across Europe and Russia, in Proceedings of the 2011 Sustainable Development in the Minerals Industry conference, Aachen, 14-17 June 2011, Essen: VGE Verlag, 2011, 153-170
Leisure Class, in Ritzer G (eds) The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Vol.VI, , 2006, 2594-2596
Veblen, Thorstein, in Ritzer G (eds) The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Vol.X,, Oxford: Blackwell, 2006, 5186-5186
Internet publications
The Fear of the Fairtrade Consumer – An Informed Guess on a Form of Consumer Anxiety, Post-colonial Guilt and Anti-conquest. Paper Presented at the Research Workshop “Emerging Issues in Uncertainty and Ethical Consumption”, 13th June 2011, University of Glasgow, , 2011 Full Article Publisher Website
"Die Moralisierung des Konsums ist von Furcht getrieben." – Fair Trade und die postkolonialen Statusängste von Konsumenten. Vortrag am Fachbereich Soziologie der Universität Siegen 28. Juni 2011, , 2011 Full Article Publisher Website
'Fair Trade and Critical Research: What Role for Academic Comment'Talk given at the Great Western Research Seminar, 2nd November 2009, University of Exeter, , 2009 Full Article Publisher Website
'The Eccentricity of the Romantic Consumer: Campbell, Simmel and Plessner'(Paper presented at the 4th International Plessner Conference, 16th to 18th September 2009 in Rotterdam) http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/unfinishedbusiness/blog/2009/10/16/10/, , 2009 Full Article Publisher Website
Journal articles
Towards a Consumerist Critique of Capitalism: A Socialist Defence of Consumer Culture, ephemera - theory & politics in organization, vol. 12, 2012
Veblen in the (Inner) City: On the Normality of Looting, Sociological Research Online, vol. 16, no. 4, 2011 Publisher Website
Talcott Parsons, the Sick Role and Chronic Illness, Body and Society, vol. 16, no. 2, 2010, 72-94 DOI
Reciprocity, Recognition and Labor Value: Marx's Incidental Moral Anthropology of Capitalist Market Exchange, Journal of Social Philosophy, vol. 41, no. 1, 2010, 50-72 DOI
Ethical Selving in Cultural Contexts: Fairtrade Consumption as an Everyday Ethical Practice in the UK and in Germany, International Journal of Consumer Studies, vol. 33, no. 2, 2009, 183-189 DOI
Ethical Consumption: The Case of Fair Trade, Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, vol. Sonderheft 49, 2009, 366-385
'After Heroism: Religion vs. Consumerism - Preliminaries for an Investigation of Protestantism and Islam under Consumer Culture, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, vol. 19, no. 2, 2008, 237-255 DOI
Consuming the campesino - Fair trade marketing between recognition and romantic commodification, Cultural Studies, vol. 22, no. 5, 2008, 654-679 DOI
Waste, Industry and Romantic Leisure: Veblen's Theory of Recognition, European Journal of Social Theory, vol. 9, no. 1, 2006, 103-117 DOI
'Marx, Morality and Management: The Normative Implications of His Labour Value Theory and the Contradictions of HRM', Philosophy of Management, vol. 5, no. 2, 2005, 47-62
with A Ferner, J Quintanilla, Country-of-origin effects, host-country effects, and the management of HR in multinationals: German companies in Britain and Spain, J WORLD BUS, vol. 36, no. 2, 2001, 107-127
with A Ferner, Internationalisation and the Personnel Function in German Multinationals, Human Resource Management Journal, vol. 10, 2000, 79-96
with A Ferner, "Vanguard" Subsidiaries and the Diffusion of New Practices: A Case Study of German Multinationals, British Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 38, 2000, 115-140
Reports
with A Ferner, The German Way: German Multinationals and the Management of Human Resources in their UK Subsidiaries, Anglo-German Foundation, London, 1999.
