Teaching plan

DateTeacherPlaceTopicLecture notes / comments
20.11.2007Hal Wilhite? SUM, 4th floor 10.15-12.00? 1. INTRODUCTION: What is sustainable consumption? Where do the practical, policy and theoretical challenges lie? How does one go about studying consumption? ? Readings: Miller; Campbell; Princen et al.?
20.11.2007Monica Guillen? SUM 4th floor. 13.15-15.00? Seminar? Exercises?
22.11.2007Monica Guillen? SUM, 4th floor. 10.15-12.00? 2. COMPETING ECONOMIC THEORIES: Individual rationality versus well-being? Layard, Jackson et.al, Guillen?
22.11.2007Monica Guillen? SUM 4th floor 13.15-15.00? Seminar? ?
27.11.2007Hal Wilhite? SUM, 4th floor. 10.00-11.45 ? 3. BEYOND ECONOMICS: Co-evolution of demand. Consumption as performance. Consuming to be normal. ? Readings: Shove et al, Wilhite and Lutzenhiser

new time!?

27.11.2007Monica Guillen? SUM 4th floor 14.30-16.30? Seminar? new time!?
29.11.2007Hal Wilhite? SUM, 4th floor 10.15-12.00? 4. GLOBALISATION AND MODERNITY: Is globalisation carrying consumerism to the South? What happens in the meeting between global and local ideas on consumption? ? Readings: Appadurai, Rojek

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29.11.2007Monica Guillen? SUM 4th floor 13.15-15.00? Seminar? ?
30.11.2007Monica Guillen? SUM 4th floor, 13.15-15.00? Seminar? ?
04.12.2007Hal Wilhite? SUM, 4th floor. 10.15-12.00? 5. THE ROLE OF MEDIA AND DISCOURSE: Discourses and their power. To what degree does media affect people’s actions? ? Reading: Mazzarella?
06.12.2007Hal Wilhite? SUM, 4th floor. 10.15-12.00? 6. TOWARD A NEW CONCEPTUALISATION OF CONSUMPTION AND CHANGE: Conclusion and final discussion ? Concluding session summarising perspectives and final discussion.

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17.12.2007? ? Exam? Exam to be submitted by 15.00 in SUM's reception.?
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