Better Without Billboards
Better Without Billboards
Podcast Description
A podcast from Adfree Cities exploring outdoor advertising, why it's bad, and what we can do to reclaim our public spaces.Find out more at https://adfreecities.org.uk.Produced and edited by the Adfree Cities team.Music by Mishima. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The podcast focuses on various themes related to advertising, capitalism, and public health, featuring episodes that discuss topics like the environmental implications of advertising for fossil fuels, the manipulation of cultural values in marketing, and societal impacts on children regarding advertising practices. For instance, episodes delve into the responsibilities of the advertising industry in promoting pollution and the rise of unhealthy consumer habits.
A podcast from Adfree Cities exploring outdoor advertising, why it’s bad, and what we can do to reclaim our public spaces.
Find out more at https://adfreecities.org.uk.
Produced and edited by the Adfree Cities team.
Music by Mishima.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode we explore the role of advertising as a flagbearer for capitalism, and the values and principles on which capitalism relies. We’re joined by Simon Mair, lecturer in sustainability at the University of York to discuss growth, Growth, degrowth and post-growth, and the role that advertising does or could play in economies organised along the differing principles these ideas represent.
Show notes
- Read Simon’s article Language, Climate Change, and Cities beyond Capitalism here: https://utppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3138/jccpe-2023-0012
- Listen to our previous episode on advertising and values:https://shows.acast.com/better-without-billboards/episodes/advertising-cultural-values-ruth-taylor
- Read more about sociologist Michael Schudson’s work on capitalist realism:https://webcontent.indianhills.edu/_myhills/courses/ENG105/documents/lu05_reading_2.pdf
- And Mark Fischer’s book on the same: https://archive.org/details/capitalist-realism-is-there-no-alternative/page/n1/mode/2up
- Find out more about degrowth economics (a.k.a. wellbeing economics): https://weall.org/
Find out more about Adfree Cities at https:www.adfreecities.org.uk and on Bluesky and Instagram @adfreecities.
Credits:
Produced, edited and presented by Nicola Wilks and James Ward.
Title music by mishima.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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