Course Outline -- Week 4
Wk 4 – Consumption & the Environment
Required
Adorno & Horkheimer, "The Culture Industry," pp. 120-167 in Dialectics of Enlightenment (R)
Marcuse, ch. 1, "The New Forms of Control" (pp. 1-12), and ch. 3, "The Conquest of the Unhappy Consciousness" (pp. 56-83) in One-Dimensional Man (V)
Schnaiberg, "The Expansion of Consumption: Does the Tail Wag the Dog?" ch. 4 (pp. 157-204) in The Environment (V)
Durning, Alan Thein, "The Conundrum of Consumption" pp. 40-47 in Mazur, ed., Beyond the Numbers (R)
Schor, Juiliet B., "Can the North Stop Consumption Growth? Escaping the Cycle of Work and Spend," pp. 68-84 in Bhaskar and Glyn, eds., The North, the South, and the Environment (R)
Recommended
Mumford, "Normalize Consumption!" pp. 390-400 in Technics and Civilization (V)
Brand, Karl-Werner, "Environmental Consciousness and Behaviour: the Greening of Lifestyles," pp. 204-217 in Redclift and Woodgate, eds., International Handbook of Environmental Sociology
Norgaard, Richard. 1995. "Beyond Materialism," Review of Social Economy 53(4): 475-492 (RR)
Special Issue on "Consumption and the Environment," Ecological Economics, 28(3), March 1999
Other
last updated January 25, 2002