| Date | Teacher | Place | Topic | Lecture notes / comments |
| 26.09.2005 | Maria Gjølberg | SUM 4th floor | Colloquium | Introduction to the course and course participants. |
| 27.09.2005 | Hal Wilhite and Desmond McNeill | SUM 4th floor | 1. INTRODUCTION: What is sustainable consumption? Where do the practical, policy and theoretical challenges lie? How does one go about studying consumption? | Readings: Miller, pp139-199, Smith, pp 273-297 |
| 28.09.2005 | Maria Gjølberg | SUM, 4th floor | Colloquium | Write up: Campbell or Bourdieu |
| 03.10.2005 | Maria Gjølberg | SUM, 4th floor | Colloquium | Write up: Shove or Wilhite and Lutzenhiser |
| 04.10.2005 | Hal Wilhite | SUM, 4th floor | 2. CONSUMPTION THEORY: Is consumption social or individual? Competing theories from social science and economics | Readings: Campbell, pp 105-139, Bourdieu, pp 51-70 Bourdieu pp71-104 [optional] |
| 05.10.2005 | Hal Wilhite | SUM, 4th floor | 3. BEYOND ECONOMICS: Co-evolution of demand. Consumption as performance. Consuming to be normal. | Readings: Shove et al, , pp 235-273, Wilhite and Lutzenhiser, pp 329-337 |
| 06.10.2005 | Hal Wilhite | SUM, 4th floor | 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, pp 1-50 |
| 10.10.2005 | Maria Gjølberg | SUM, 4th floor | Colloquium | Write up: Appadurai |
| 11.10.2005 | Hal Wilhite | SUM, 4th floor | 5. THE ROLE OF MEDIA AND DISCOURSE: Discourses and their power. To what degree does media affect people’s actions? | Readings: Morely, 199-235 Smith 273-296 [optional] |
| 12.10.2005 | Maria Gjølberg | SUM, 4th floor | Colloquium | Write-up: Morely |
| 13.10.2005 | Hal Wilhite | SUM, 4th floor | 6. TOWARD A NEW CONCEPTUALISATION OF CONSUMPTION AND CHANGE: Conclusion and final discussion | Concluding session summarising perspectives and final discussion. |
| 25.10.2005 | Exam | SUM 4th floor | EXAM | Take home exam handed out on 25. October at 09:00 and submitted by 16:00 on 8. November.In situations in which the exam evaluation falls between two grades, participation in lectures and colloquiums will contribute to a decision on the final grade. |
Teaching plan
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