Jo Littler

Jo Littler is Professor of Cultural, Media and Social Analysis at Goldsmiths, University of London and a member of the Soundings editorial collective.

She has written on a wide range of subjects connected with culture, society and power, especially meritocracy, consumption, celebrity, and heritage, as well as gender, ‘race’, politics and environmentalism. Her books include Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and the Political (2023); with The Care Collective, The Care Manifesto (2020); Against Meritocracy: Culture, Power and Myths of Mobility (2018); Radical Consumption? Shopping For Change in Contemporary Culture (2008); and The Politics of Heritage: The legacies of ‘race’, with Roshi Naidoo (2005).