When it comes to the question whether the ecocrisis should be ”solved” by individual consumers, in this PhD research doctoral researcher Johanna Kallio argues that the question is already out of the track: instead, we should ask whether it is right to become and be a consumer?
In this educational theoretic PhD research Kallio is developing the model for more sustainable self-education to the times of ecocrisis. The model is seeking self-educational ways to develop one’s personal emotional repertoire to replace the prevalent understanding of consumer with the idea of collective ecological responsibility by using Martha Nussbaum’s (1947–) neo-Stoic theory of emotions as her background theory.
Kallio’s PhD research is divided into two parts. First, she will create philosophical, conceptual frames to define self-educational limits that the modern society will poses to its members as consumers. Second, she will develop the practical model for self-educational ways to use philosophical thinking as tool to overcome these obstacles. Kallio’s PhD research will include four peer-reviewed articles, two in Finnish and two in English.
Read more about the project here.