S2E10 - What’s an insect hotel? And other fun tales
In this episode we discuss our varied experiences of and relationships with nature. We pay particular attention to inter-generational simila...
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Tales of Consumption
In this podcast, researchers Anuja Pradhan and Alev Kuruoglu from the University of Southern Denmark take a critical look at everything and anything related to our consumer society. They wil...
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Listen to Tales of Consumption, a Science & Medicine podcast by University of Southern Denmark. Stream 22 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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S2E9 - Health and Emotion: Complication in Consumption
In this episode Lez Trujillo Torres from the University of Illinois, Chicago shares her research on complex emotions and family dynamics inv...
S2E8 - Got Milk? When Consumption Shapes Memories
We are joined by Tanvi Gupta and Rupali Kapoor from the Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur to discuss the interrelationships between fo...
S2E7 - New Roads to Family
In this episode, we try to understand how technological entanglements have been shaping contemporary family life and question our imaginings...
S2E6 - NFTs: A Whole New Ballgame
In this episode we are joined by Domen Bajde from the University of Southern Denmark to discuss sports consumption. We being with a conversa...
S2E5 - Ghanaian Evangelists, Britney, Keanu and Hammer
In this episode we talk to Adjoa Ocran about her PhD research on Ghanaian celebrities. We specifically discuss celebrity priests and how you...
S2E4 - How happy are the holidays?
In this episode we talk about how consumption plays a key role in the holiday season and why this can be problematic. We discuss Black Frida...
S2E3 - New Masculinities and the Old Marketplace
In this episode, we are joined in the studio by our students Anne-Mette Buch Hansen (master’s in international business and marketing) and M...
S2E2 - Policing Women's Bodies
In this episode, we talk to Ea Høg Utoft, a most inspiring political science scholar at Aarhus University, on gender equality. We discuss an...
S2E1 - When in Crisis, Consume
In this episode Anuja and Alev discuss changes in consumption practices in times of crisis as well as people who try to mitigate crisis via...
Episode 12 - Movies: a Sociobiological Love Story
In this season finale, Anuja and Alev talk about their love for movies and the movie theater (despite the logistical challenges of using the...
Episode 11 - Shame, Regret and Remorse
In this episode, Alev, Anuja and their producer Karsten share stories about their consumption related shame and regret. We discuss the idea...
Episode 10 - They’re all good dogs (and cats?)
Are chihuahuas real dogs? Have you ever been to a Victorian cat tea party? How do dogs motivate us to be better? Anuja and Alev and their gu...
Episode 9 - Can you really consume sustainably?
In this episode, Anuja & Alev make Dannie Kjeldgaard (SDU) answer all of life’s big questions, such as “what is sustainability” and “can con...
Episode 8 - Let's Talk About (Heteronormative) Love, Baby!
Deciding that they can't get enough of talking about love and marriage and TV, Anuja, Alev and Carly get together again and discuss of norms...
Episode 7 - Music is My Nation
In this episode, Alev and Anuja cover a broad range of topics ranging from whether Backstreet Boys has ever been cool, to Bollywood music in...
Episode 6 - "I’m not running. I’m chasing my youth"
Fitness activities on the surface have a lot to do with health and looks, they are also very much embedded in marketplace logics and consume...
Episode 5 - Covid-sumption
'Celebrating' one year of Covid-19, researchers Anuja Pradhan and Alev Kuruogly talks about the changes in consumer culture inflicted by the...
Episode 4 - Who Are You Wearing?
Fashion is a system that organises most of our lives. In this episode, Anuja Pradhan and Alev Kuruoglu talk about fashions impact through ma...
Episode 3 - Television? More like Male-vision
Anuja Pradhan and Alev Kuruoglu talk about gender and representation issues in TV production - and in the writer's rooms. Shows like The Que...