by Tiy Chung | May 6, 2015 | SCORAI Colloquium Series on Consumption & Social Change
May 6, 2015: George Ritzer, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, author of The McDonaldization of Society, spoke on his theory of prosumption and “prosumer capitalism”. He argues that while prosumption implies democratization and...
by Tiy Chung | Apr 22, 2015 | Archive
On May 2nd, 2015, The Institute for Policy Studies’ New Economy Maryland project, Story of Stuff, and Greenpeace USA are convening an afternoon and evening of conversations about what it would take to build a new economy in Maryland. The one day workshop will explore...
by Tiy Chung | Apr 9, 2015 | Archive
Keynote address by Halina Brown, co-founder of SCORAI and Professor at Clark University, at a conference on Sustainable Consumption in Israel: Research and Urban Policy. The conference was sponsored by the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies at Hebrew University....
by Tiy Chung | Mar 25, 2015 | Archive
A new documentary on the BBC World Service, Can the world get rich forever?, looks at “our apparent addiction to economic growth as the secret to prosperity and cure for global poverty”. The 53 minute radio documentary asks questions like: In a finite...
by Tiy Chung | Mar 16, 2015 | SCORAI Colloquium Series on Consumption & Social Change
March 11, 2015: Dorothy Holland, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and coauthor of Identity and Agency in Cultural Worlds and History in Person: Enduring Struggles, Contentious Practice, Intimate Identities, spoke...
