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7 Transdisciplin ary Consumerism Sue L. T. McGregor PhD MSVU Halifax NS Canada www.consultmcgregor.com June 2013 SOCRAI Conference Clark University, Worcester MA

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Page 1: 7 Transdisciplinary Consumerism. Culture-Ideology of Consumerism (CIC)

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Transdisciplinary

Consumerism

Sue L. T. McGregor PhD

MSVU Halifax NS Canada

www.consultmcgregor.com

June 2013

SOCRAI Conference

Clark University, Worcester MA

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Culture-Ideology of Consumerism (CIC)

“A mutually reinforcing integration of consumer culture and consumerist ideology” (Kozinets & Handelman, 2004, p. 691)

“A coherent set of practices, attitudes and values…that encourages ever-expanding consumption” (Sklair, 1994, p. 260)

CIC is perpetuated by corporate capitalists – capitalism needs the ideology of consumerism and a consumer culture in order to survive

CIC creates the hegemony of capitalistic consumerism, which needs to be disrupted on a global scale to make room for a new consumerism – transdisciplinary consumerism

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The culture-ideology of consumerism:

Perpetuates the logic of the market (an exclusive logic that ignores life)

Assumes there is one level of reality – the physical, material level (materialism)

Draws on knowledge stemming from dualistic, linear, deterministic, reductionist and causal thinking

Perpetuates market-based values in a culture of consumption

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Trans means working at the borders by crisscrossing back and forth (zigzag

lateral movement) and actually pushing, climbing over and/or moving beyond

borders (transcending): at the interface of disciplines and civil society

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Exclusive and Inclusive Logics

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TD Knowledge is:

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Use transdisciplinarity to solve wicked problems caused by capitalistic consumerism – mitigate power of culture-ideology of consumerism

TAME PROBLEM

Complex and diffi cult but can be solved, with everyone agreeing on the solution

WICKED PROBLEM

Messy, vicious, aggressive social, political, economic and environmental messes; the more you do, the worse things get; yet, something has to be done