{"id":46,"date":"2013-11-30T10:39:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T10:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/management\/?p=46"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:21:13","slug":"buy-nothing-day-critical-management-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/business\/2013\/11\/30\/buy-nothing-day-critical-management-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy Nothing Day: Critical Management in Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>On the day after Black Friday, Jennifer Smith Maguire, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Production and Consumption at the School, discusses the goals and history of &#8216;Buy Nothing Day&#8217;.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Saturday 30 November is \u2018Buy Nothing Day\u2019, an annual one-day event that invites us to step off the shopping treadmill and think critically about the place of consumption in our everyday lives. It\u2019s a chance to question what we buy and what we (think we) need, and to think about consuming for the long-term rather than short-term; buying less (and perhaps better) rather than more; seeking out slow goods rather than fast. BND is also a great example of \u2018critical management\u2019 in action: an intervention into people\u2019s relationships with the market, with the intention of organizing people\u2019s behaviour and attitudes in new ways. With that in mind, Jennifer Smith Maguire has challenged her year 1 BA Management and Economics students to take part this Saturday, and to come up with their own ideas for other critical disruptions to the marketplace status quo. In this podcast, Jennifer gives a quick primer on BND\u2019s goals and history.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/122119436\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the day after Black Friday, Jennifer Smith Maguire, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Production and Consumption at the School, discusses the goals and history of &#8216;Buy Nothing Day&#8217;. Saturday 30 November is \u2018Buy Nothing Day\u2019, an annual one-day event that invites us to step off the shopping treadmill and think critically about the place of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[67,65,64,63,66,61,68,62],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ba-management-and-economics","tag-black-friday","tag-buy-nothing-day","tag-consumption","tag-critical-management-studies","tag-jennifer-smith-maguire","tag-market-disruption","tag-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}