Course project presentations [11 and 12 December 2023]

Time slot	Title & author(s)	Discussants
Monday 11.12
Consumption, identity and social differences
14	Zaida Söderström: Consuming identity. An analysis of young people’s reflections on their consumption patterns and identity formation.	Emma Veland
14,15	Carla Asero: Beyond lables: queer culture and the role of consumption in shaping LGBTQIA+ identities	Laura Sant’Ana
14,30	Angie Lorena Quintero Salazar: From curly to straight and back again. The relationship of the Afro-descendant advocacy movements and the influence on the beauty and hair care products industry.	Zaida Söderström
14,45	Elisa Sbalchiero: Class patterns of cultural consumption in Italy	Giada Pioggia Todoerto
15	Emma Veland: Pink purchases: The impact of cause related marketing in the fight against breast cancer	Alero Heinzpeter
Sustainable consumption
	(part 1)
15,15	Laura Sant’Ana: Growth-at-all-cost: who pays the bill?	Angie Lorena Quintero Salazar
15,30	Giada Pioggia Todoerto: Do it for others or for yourself? Volunteering and sustainable consumption practices	Lidia Falzoni
15,45	Kyriakoula Diakogianni: ‘Ethnic’ shops on Trento: everyday multiculturalism and consumption practices of university students	Zaida Söderström:
Tuesday 12.12
	(part 2)
14	Niccolò Manfrin: Online consumption and perceptions of sustainability	Maddalena Simeon
14,15	Sofia Campo: Does challenging unsustainable practices lead to more responsible energy use? Insight from social practice theory	Eliza Pelegrini
Clothing
14,30	Lidia Falzoni: Playing with boundaries in the second-hand arena	Sebastian Husted Petersen and Stefano Sbreglia
14,45	Jing Aurora Tvinnereim, Trude Elise Rasmussen, Sofie Margit Solbakken: Second hand consumption of clothes. A comparative study between Italy and Norway.	Kyriakoula Diakogianni
15	Alero Heinzpeter: Is there a second-hand clothing trend? Young adults’ clothes consumption between sustainability, fashion and identity	Sofia Campo
15,15	Stefano Sbreglia and Sebastian Husted Petersen: Fabrication of Alternative Identity. Case study of a specific clothing brand	Jing Aurora Tvinnereim, Trude Elise Rasmussen, Sofie Margit Solbakken
Food
15,30	Maddalena Simeon: Build me(at) up buttercup: sustainable consumption, tradition, and alternative meats acceptance	Niccolò Manfrin
15,45	Luca Moro: Beyond homegrown: a sociological research of eating habits among rural university students in an urban milieu	Elisa Sbalchiero
16	Eliza Pelegrini: Coop’s Smart Marketing: Sociological Insights into Consumer Behavior	Carla Asero