Agenda Future-oriented consumer research: Keynotes online
The Research Group of Sociological Theory at ITeG, University of Kassel, is organizing an agenda process for future-oriented consumer research. The project is funded by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection and based on a resolution of the German Bundestag.
As a continuous discussion and work process, the agenda development will extend over a period of 18 months (07/2023 to 12/2024). In a series of six workshops at different locations the content of consumer science is to be reviewed and impulses for a future reorientation are to be provided in the form of a final, collaboratively produced white paper. Topics include sustainability, digitalization, social/material (property) rights, professionalization and responsibility.
The following keynotes are now available online as videos
- Prof. Dr. Hartmut Rosa (University of Jena/Max-Weber-Kolleg, Erfurt) on 27.06.2024 in Erfurt:
"Dinge ent-sorgen. How capitalism is forcing the end of private ownership of consumer goods" - Prof. Dr. Cordula Kropp (University of Stuttgart) on 13.03.2024 in Kassel:
"Infrastructures as drivers of environmental consumption" - Prof. Dr. Melanie Jaeger-Erben (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg) on 07.12.2023 in Wuppertal:
"Abundance, lack of abundance and harmful creation - the thick planks of transformative consumption research",