Thursday 10 DEC | TIME: 9,15-17,30

Please note that you will have 5-7 minutes for each presenatation. Presentations should be suppoted by a short ppt (3-4 slides) organized as follow:

• Title + names of all authors
• Theoretical framework + research question
• Proposed research design

Morning session

9:15-10:15	Consumerism, overconsumption and commodification
Elia D’Aversa	Emotional labour and the commercialization of human emotions.
Giulia Coppo, Giorgio Dolci & Giacomo Melli	Cultural and consumerist practices in political communication: an analysis of the Italian context.
Roberto D’Alba	Commodification of mental health – New survivors movements Vs Big Pharma.
Leonardo Mora	Hyper-consumerism and impulse buying online.
11:30-12:30	Consumption and identity
Nicla Schwander	Building children’s identity during childhood: consumption’s influences.
Agnese Capurri	Board games: from means of socialization to symbol of consumerism.
Laura Pauletto	The Erotic Industry and the Consumption of Sex Products: A Comparison between Two Countries.
Manuela Intini	Vegan beauty products: between political consumerism and femvertising.
12:30-13:30	Consumption spaces and times
Carlo Dimitri & Mattia Ferraris	Inequalities in the supermarket, aesthetic and spatial disposition of products.
Sofia Ercolanoni	Christmas consumption behaviours and consumers’ awareness of sustainable practices.
Francesco De Salvatore & Lorenzo Di Bartolo	Freeganism: an unconventional political issue against food waste and green capitalism.

Afternoon session

14:30-15:30	The forms of political consumerism
Marta Fatiga & Krystyna Petrenko	Critical consumption and boycott and Political consumerism.
Stefano Fongaro	Understanding boycotters’/buycotters’ point of view. The meaning behind political consumerism practices.
Federica Antonelli & Leonardo Veronesi	Political consumerism and boycott: actions against the growth of e-commerce. Amazon case study.
15:30-16:30	The search for “good” food
Kristen Levesque & Özge Yazıcı	Alternative food systems.
Sofia Borgogni, Elena Franzetti & Gianluca Reolon	Alternative meat in Italy.
Mariya Lenko & Maria Paschoal	Organic food consumption. From politics to ethics.
16:30-17:30	Scaling out and scaling up
Cecilia Brazioli & Shermy Del Giudice	Gruppi di Acquisto Solidale in Italy as a form of political consumerism: how they are dealing with the pandemic.
Timon Kai Drewes	Investigating sustainable materialism and prefigurative activism using the example of tenement building syndicates. How well do utopias work in practice?
Elio Strano	What’s on the agenda? Sustainability and intergovernmental organization