Clive Barnett, Paul Cloke, Nick Clarke, Alice Malpass

Globalizing Responsibility (eBook, ePUB)

The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Globalizing Responsibility: The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption presents an innovative reinterpretation of the forces that have shaped the remarkable growth of ethical consumption. * Develops a theoretically informed new approach to shape our understanding of the pragmatic nature of ethical action in consumption processes * Provides empirical research on everyday consumers, social networks, and campaigns * Fills a gap in research on the topic with its distinctive focus on fair trade consumption * Locates ethical consumption within a range of social theoretical debates -on neoliberalism, governmentality, and globalisation * Challenges the moralism of much of the analysis of ethical consumption, which sees it as a retreat from proper citizenly politics and an expression of individualised consumerism

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444390230
• Artikelnr.: 38307508

Autorenporträt

Clive Barnett is Reader in Human Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University. Paul Cloke is Professor of Human Geography, Department of Geography, University of Exeter. Nick Clarke is Lecturer in Human Geography, Department of Geography, University of Southampton. Alice Malpass is Research Associate, Primary Health Care, University of Bristol.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editors' Preface

Preface and Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: Politicizing Consumption in an UnequalWorld

Part I: Theorizing Consumption Differently

2. The Ethical Problematization of 'TheConsumer'

3. Practising Consumption

4. Problematizing Consumption

Part II: Doing Consumption Differently

5. Grammars of Responsibility

6. Local Networks of Global Feeling

7. Fairtrade Urbanism

8. Conclusion: Doing Politics in an Ethical Register

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Rezensionen

"Globalizing Responsibility: The Political Rationalities ofEthical Consumption presents an innovative reinterpretation ofthe forces that have shaped the remarkable growth of ethicalconsumption." (Breitbart.com: Business Wire, 29 November2010)
"Based on original research and innovative thinking, this profoundand insightful book challenges conventional thinking about 'ethicalconsumption.' Approaching the subject as a distinctive form ofpolitical mobilisation, Globalizing Responsibility shows howour everyday consumption practices are related to wider narrativesof social justice and collective responsibility."
--Peter Jackson, University of Sheffield

"By viewing ethical consumption patterns as a politicalphenomenon, the authors deliver a far deeper understanding of thisgrowing movement than a whole raft of marketing and businessliterature which has gone before."
--Rob Harrison, Ethical Consumer Magazine