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Books in Process

• Halnon, Karen Bettez. (2009). Poor Chic: Poverty Fads, Fashions, and Media in Popular Consumer Culture. Social Issues Series. Editor, George Ritzer. Worth. Bedford, Freeman, & Worth Publishing Group. (Forthcoming).

Articles Published in Refereed Journals

• 2006 Halnon, Karen Bettez. “Heavy Metal Carnival and Disalienation: The Politics of Grotesque Realism.” Symbolic Interaction. Special Issue on Popular Music in Everyday Life. Winter, Volume 29: No. 1, pp. 33-48. (One of “The Most Frequently Read Articles” at Symbolic Interaction).

• 2005 Halnon, Karen Bettez and Saundra Cohen. “Muscles, Motorcycles, and Tattoos: Gentrification in a New Frontier.” Journal of Consumer Culture. March, Volume 6, 33-56. (One of “The Most Frequently Read” articles at the Journal of Consumer Culture).

• 2005 Halnon, Karen Bettez. “Alienation Incorporated: ‘F*** the Mainstream Music’ in the Mainstream.” Current Sociology. Journal of the International Sociology Association. May, Volume 53(4): 441-464. SAGE (London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi). (One of “The Most Frequently Read Articles” at Current Sociology).

• 2004 Halnon, Karen Bettez. “Inside Shock Music Carnival: Spectacle as Contested Terrain.” Critical Sociology, October, Volume 30.3, pp. 743-779.

• 2002 Halnon, Karen Bettez. “Poor Chic: The Rational Consumption of Poverty.” Current Sociology, Journal of the International Sociology Association. July, Volume 50, 501-516. SAGE (London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi). (One of “The Most Frequently Read Articles” at Current Sociology).

• 2001 Halnon, Karen Bettez. “The Sociology of Doing Nothing: A Model ‘Adopt a Stigma in a Public Place’ Exercise” Teaching Sociology. October, Vol. 29(4): 423-438.