Consumption Ethics
Introduction
Interdisciplinary Meanings and Intersections, Seminar, London, 14 Sep 2017
SEMINAR – Consumption Ethics: Interdisciplinary Meanings and Intersections
Location: Room CLO B01, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, London.
Date: 14th September 2017, 1.30pm -7.00pm
Following the seminar, guests will be invited to attend a drinks reception.
The final seminar of the ESRC Ethics in Consumption: Interdisciplinary Perspectives series, will focus on Consumption Ethics: Interdisciplinary Meanings and Intersections.
We are witnessing a continued growth of the ethical consumerism movement, alongside a significant shift in the breadth and scope of consumers’ ethical concerns. Far from a homogenous collective, however, what is ‘ethical’ will encapsulate different expressions, concerns and issues across individuals, groups and socio-spatial contexts. As we have seen throughout our seminar series, the multi-faceted ethical consumer is increasingly attracting academic interest across disciplinary fields, as well as drawing the attention of activist organisations, government bodies, journalists, media, celebrities, primary industry, manufacturing sectors, and retailers. The purpose of our series is to explore differing academic disciplinary lenses which can tend to be contained in separate streams of research literature that are developing in parallel and in relative isolation. Developing separate bodies of knowledge within bounded disciplinary silos has resulted in a multiplicity of terminology and varied tacit meanings of consumption ethics. In the final of our ESRC seminars we seek to advance consumer ethics scholarship through the development of an interdisciplinary, and indeed, transdisciplinary theoretical framework that encapsulates the complexity and contextual nature of consumption ethics.
Guest speakers include:
- Daniel Miller, Professor of Anthropology at UCL
- Jonathon Porritt, Environmentalist and Writer
Panel discussants include:
- Frank Trentmann, Professor of History, Berkbeck University of London
- Jo Littler, Reader in Sociology, City University of London
- Kate Soper, Professor of Philosophy, University of Brighton
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We are witnessing a continued growth of the ethical consumerism movement, alongside a significant shift in the breadth and scope of consumers’ ethical concerns. Far from a homogenous collective, however, what is ‘ethical’ will encapsulate different expressions, concerns and issues across individuals, groups and socio-spatial contexts. As we have seen throughout our seminar series, the multi-faceted ethical consumer is increasingly attracting academic interest across disciplinary fields, as well as drawing the attention of activist organisations, government bodies, journalists, media, celebrities, primary industry
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