by Tiy Chung | Mar 13, 2015 | Archive
George Ritzer, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, and author of The McDonaldization of Society, will speak on his theory of prosumption and “prosumer capitalism” on May 6, 2015. The abstract for this talk can be found here.
by Tiy Chung | Mar 5, 2015 | Archive
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, will speak about the...
by Tiy Chung | Feb 16, 2015 | Archive
The George Ritzer colloquium session originally scheduled for February 11, 2015, will now take place on May 6, 2015.
by Tiy Chung | Jan 26, 2015 | SCORAI Colloquium Series on Consumption & Social Change
Erik Olin Wright, Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, talks about proposals and models of radical social change, drawing on his Real Utopias Project. The expansion of markets and pressures for endless growth in material consumption are not...
by Tiy Chung | Dec 15, 2014 | Archive
The Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI) in collaboration with the Urban Sustainability Director’s Network (USDN) and the City of Eugene (Oregon) sponsored the workshop “The Role of Cities in Advancing Sustainable Consumption,” on...
