consumerism

A poster promoting the image of working women in 1960s

International Women's (Online Shopping) Day in China

Column

Mingyi Hou

04/04/2019

11 minutes to read

This article explains the consumerist and sexualizing undertones in the transfomation of International Women's Day in digital China.

Eating disorder sufferers on Twitter

Article

Tara van Dijk

08/01/2019

12 minutes to read

There is a social dimension to people suffering from an eating disorder. On platforms such like Twitter they form a social group. How is it to be a member of this community?

How a college student lives a zero waste lifestyle

Article

Nataliia Vdovychenko

Miah Ke-leigh

10/10/2018

14 minutes to read

What does it actually take to live a mindful life with zero waste? Is it possible to survive the struggle of reorganizing your life habits if you are still a student? And how expensive it is to do good for the environment?

Volunteer Tourism: Still Some Way to Go

Article

Sarah-Maria Geradin

06/02/2018

9 minutes to read

Tourism is now on its way towards sustainability. The following article discusses volunteer tourism, a form of tourism considered sustainable. But is this really the case?

Dubravka Ugresić

Article

Odile Heynders

23/11/2016

11 minutes to read

Ugresić is one of the interesting European voices on nationalism and consumerism, critiquing sloppiness of thinking and the superficiality of the public debate. This is a voice that we should take seriously, says Odile Heynders.