Autor: Tommaso Vitale Datum: To: ML movimenti Bicocca Betreff: [movimenti.bicocca] cfp: Globalizing lifestylesbetween McDonaldization and sustainability perspectives The case of the new middle classes
> > Call for papers
>
> International Workshop: „Globalizing lifestyles between
> McDonaldization and sustainability perspectives – The case of the
> new middle classes“
>
> 4.-5. October 2007, University of Bremen, ARTEC Institute
>
> The world-wide spread of extremely resource-intensive lifestyles is
> one of the most important challenges on the way towards a more
> sustainable future. Despite the epochal dimensions of this
> challenge, there is not only a dearth of sustainable policy
> concepts, but also a lack of socio-scientific approaches which come
> anywhere near an adequate analysis of the issues at hand. In
> particular, it is still an open question whether and, if so, under
> what conditions lifestyles really are becoming globalised and how
> this can be politically influenced in a sustainability perspective.
> It is from such a perspective that the symposium aims to contribute
> to the international research debate on consumption and
> sustainability. The main focus lies on the globalisation of
> lifestyles and on related consumption patterns.
> To come to a more comprehensive understanding of the issue,
> pertinent inquiries and findings from other fields of research will
> be reviewed in the workshop. These include the socio-economic
> characteristics exhibited by the promoters of specific consumption
> patterns (“new middle classes”), the infrastructures and political
> frameworks impacting on consumption patterns (“systems of
> provision” and “transition management”) and societal
> “modernisation” as a framework of socio-cultural homogenisation and/
> or of differentiation.
>
> The aim of the workshop is to discuss the globalisation of
> lifestyles and of related consumption patterns from different
> academic perspectives. Here we intend to promote the discussion
> between strands of thinking that seem to be rather unconnected up
> to now. Such a combination of multidisciplinary analytical
> perspectives is expected to give rise to new empirical and
> theoretical perspectives on consumption patterns and globalisation.
> Thus, the workshop is to provide a contribution to the research on
> sustainable consumption with a view to the level of global
> challenges and change processes, both from a theoretical and
> empirical perspective.
>
> The objective is:
> - to contribute to a conceptual framework in which the relation
> between sustainability and consumption is analysed under the
> conditions of globalisation with a reasonable of social-scientific
> complexity.
> - to enhance the scientific discussion about sustainability and
> consumption by relating current research on societal change in a
> globalised world with research on sustainable consumption.
>
> The workshop is structured in four panels:
> - The characteristics and the development of the “new middle classes”
> - The importance and the dynamics of lifestyles in these milieus
> - The impact of systems of provision and of governance systems
> - Convergence and divergence of societal paths of modernisation
>
> Abstracts from a wide variety of disciplines are welcome. These
> include sociology, geography, economy, political science and
> anthropology. The conference language is English. We are planning
> to publish the outcome as an edited volume. Travel expenses will be
> covered.
>
> We appreciate a 700-word abstracts by June 15, 2007, as a Word or
> Rich Text document to:
> Andrea Meier, email: ameier@???
>
> The abstracts should touch the methodological background, the
> empirical basis and the panel which fits to your presentation.
> Please add a short CV including your current scientific work focus.
>
>
> Hellmuth Lange
> Professor - Sociologist
> artec | Research Center for Sustainability Studies
> University of Bremen
> Enrique Schmidt-Strasse 7
> 28359 Bremen (Germany)
>
> www.artec.uni-bremen.de >
>
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