JS-22
Materialist Sociology: Biometabolism, Technometabolism, Technoaddiction

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Monday, 26 June 2023: 17:30-19:20
Location: 106 (Melbourne Convention Centre)

RC24 Environment and Society (host committee)
RC16 Sociological Theory

Language: English and French

Session Type: Oral

Materialist Sociology: Biometabolism, Technometabolism, Technoaddiction: Societies as material subsystems of the biosphere – for the 98th birthday of Stephen V. Boyden.

A growing number of sociologists and scholars of neighbourhood disciplines is integrating human societies as material subsystems of the biosphere. To honour one of the pioneers of this approach to his 98th birthday this session will be organised contemplating the work of Stephen V. Boyden, William S. McNeill, André Leroi-Gourhan, Marina Fischer-Kowalski, Helmut Haberl, Norbert Müller and similar scholars.

Session Organizer:
Dr. Haimo SCHULZ MEINEN, PhD, MA, University of Hannover, Germany, h_schulzmeinen@gmx.de
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