Sklair, Leslie
Sklair, Leslie
Bio Sketch
Leslie Sklair is a British sociologist (emeritus, London School of Economics) whose work theorizes globalization through the transnational capitalist class and the culture-ideology of consumerism. His The Icon Project (2017) develops a theory of iconic architecture as a central agent of capitalist globalization, examining how unique and typical icons circulate within capital's image economy.
Key Works
- The Icon Project: Architecture, Cities and Capitalist Globalization (2017) — the theory of iconic architecture and the icon project.
- "Iconic architecture and capitalist globalization" (2006) — earlier statement of the centrality of the image in iconicity.
- The Transnational Capitalist Class and Contemporary Architecture (2005)
- "Iconic Architecture and the Culture-ideology of Consumerism" (2010)
- Towards an Understanding of Architectural Iconicity in Global Perspective
Key Concepts
Concepts associated with this author that have pages in this wiki:
Relevance to Geoffrey's Research
Sklair is a core thinker in Geoffrey's spectacle & iconic architecture area: his claim that "there is no minimizing the centrality of the image in the production and iteration of iconicity" frames the icon's role in capital circulation (the Icon Project), and his framework is directly tested by the Alaily-Mattar empirical study of iconic architecture on Instagram.
Source Support
Source notes in this wiki drawn from this author's work:
- Visuality Peaks, Function Lasts
- The Transnational Capitalist Class and Contemporary Architecture
- Iconic Architecture and Capitalist Globalization
- Iconic Architecture and the Culture-ideology of Consumerism
- The Icon Project
- Towards an Understanding of Architectural Iconicity in Global Perspective
- Creating the Bilbao Effect
- Iconic Ordure: Review of Sklair's The Icon Project
- The Museum as Destination: The Role of Iconic Museums in Urban Boosterism
- Iconic Buildings in the Making of City Identity: The Role of Aspirational Identity Artefacts