"Beyond Consumerism?"
Thursday 04 March 2010
18:00 to 19:25
Our Think-in-Kingston event:
Thoughts on pleasure, politics and the good life in the age of climate change from Kate Soper, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy in the Institute for the Study of European Transformations at London Metropolitan University and Visiting Professor at the University of Brighton.
Kate Soper’s research interests include theory of needs and consumption, environmental philosophy and the aesthetics of nature. Her recent study on “Alternative hedonism and the theory and politics of Consumption” was funded in the ESRC/AHRC 'Cultures of Consumption' programme (see (www.consume.bbk.ac.uk).
Her books include Troubled Pleasures: writings on politics, gender and hedonism (Verso, 1995) and What is Nature? Culture, Politics and the Non-Human (Blackwell, 1995); she has recently published Citizenship and Consumption (ed. with Frank Trentmann, Palgrave, 2007) and The
Politics and Pleasures of Consuming Differently (ed. with Lyn Thomas and Martin Ryle), Palgrave, 2008
She has also worked as a journalist and translator, and has been a member of the editorial collectives of Radical Philosophy and New Left Review and a regular columnist for the US journal, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism.
| Contact |
Marilyn Mason info@kingstonphilosophycafe.org.uk 020 8546 4086 |
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| Location |
Culture Café, Rose Theatre, High Street Kingston upon Thames Surrey KT1 1HL (view map) |
| Cost | Free, but be prepared to buy a drink or two |