Luxury

期刊简介：Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption is the first truly interdisciplinary, academic journal devoted to luxury, and satisfies the demand for scholarly, unbiased and penetrating thinking on the subject. The journal considers luxury in broad socio-cultural contexts, exploring and interrogating both our historical and contemporary understanding of the term. Within the context of the contemporary global economic recession, our consumption of luxury is being questioned and indeed transformed, with notions of ‘affordable luxury’, ‘sustainable luxury’ and even ‘luxury for less’ suggesting a new discourse. At the same time, the demand for luxury goods and services on a global scale is at an unprecedented level. Luxury examines all aspects of the subject: its historical formation and understanding, its contemporary global political and economic function, alongside an exploration of how the concept of luxury remains an impetus for design, popular culture, literature and fine art. The journal publishes peer-reviewed papers from leading academics and commentators from a variety of disciplines providing an account of luxury that includes the historical, international, political and economic, alongside those directly concerned with the contemporary luxury industry. Each issue will demonstrate the breadth and interpretation of the term that its contemporary status demands and the contestation of luxury in the form of socio-political critique will generate challenging academic debate, establishing the journal as the leading forum for those interested in the field.

【译文】《奢侈品：历史、文化、消费》是第一份真正致力于奢侈品的跨学科学术期刊，满足了对该主题的学术、公正和深入思考的需求。该杂志在广泛的社会文化背景下思考奢侈品，探索和质疑我们对这个词的历史和当代理解。在当代全球经济衰退的背景下，我们对奢侈品的消费正在受到质疑，甚至正在发生转变，“买得起的奢侈品”、“可持续的奢侈品”甚至“低价奢侈品”的概念暗示着一种新的话语。与此同时，全球范围内对奢侈品和服务的需求达到了前所未有的水平。奢侈品审视了这个主题的各个方面：它的历史形成和理解，它的当代全球政治和经济功能，同时探索奢侈品的概念如何仍然是设计、流行文化、文学和美术的推动力。该杂志发表来自不同学科的顶尖学者和评论家的同行评审论文，提供了对奢侈品的描述，包括历史、国际、政治和经济，以及与当代奢侈品行业直接相关的内容。每期都将展示该术语的当代地位所要求的广度和解释，并且以社会政治批评的形式对奢侈品的争论将引发具有挑战性的学术辩论，使该杂志成为对该领域感兴趣的人的领先论坛。