Seminar instructions
1) As a group, identify from your understanding:
a. Main argument(s) of each of the three articles
b. A most notable point from your perspective (e.g., something that surprised you)
c. Discuss:
i. In scientific models and in political rhetoric regarding sustainability and a
‘green’ transformation, individuals are regularly considered as “rational
actors” (Otto et al. 2020, 2; also Hobson 2002, 100f.). The assumption is that,
if provided with sufficient information about the problems embedded in
consumption, individuals will change their consumption (Hobson, 2002, 96).
In what way(s) does this assumption differ from and clash with the concepts
of ‘sustainable citizenship’ and ‘human agency’? In what way(s) are the
various ideas overlapping or complementary?
ii. Considering the issues described in the articles: In what way(s), if any, can
green consumerism and ‘lifestyle’ politics advance green politics and policy?
d. Prepare a question or provocative statement that can initiate a discussion on each of
the two discussion points (i.e., i.+ii.).
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