Identity-forming consumption and socio-ecological transformation

Date
16. Oct 2025, 1.00 pm - 17. Oct 2025, 1.00 pm
Location
C19 – research building "Weltbeziehungen" (Campus)
Organizer
SFB 294 A03 (Dirk Schuck & Marco Sonnberger)
Event type
Workshop
Event Language(s)
German
Audience
open to the university public

In current social debates, it is becoming increasingly apparent that even a small reduction in consumption is apparently experienced by a relevant proportion of the population as a significant restriction of freedom. This has given rise to reflections on how this perceived connection between freedom and consumption has come about in society (see Lepenies 2022, for example).

Little light has yet been shed on how this political and ideological historical process could be linked to a structural change in property. The interdisciplinary workshop aims to explore this question.

The aim of the workshop is to analyse the current social tensions of identity-forming consumption and the social potentials or obstacles for a socio-ecological transformation from a historical and sociological perspective. Both historical and contemporary contributions are conceivable in the interdisciplinary field of an ecologically informed history of political ideas and Philosophy, environmental history, social theory or empirically orientated sociology. The aim is to bring these disciplines into a thematic dialogue with each other.

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