Ethical Consumption (eBook, PDF)

A Critical Introduction
Redaktion: Lewis, Tania; Potter, Emily

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Supermarkets selling 'guilt free' products; 'eco-makeover' shows exhorting us to buy local and go green; action groups bent on 'swopping not shopping'. A widespread ethical turn is reshaping consumer culture. This edited collection offers a lively and accessible critical introduction to the socio-cultural politics of 'ethical consumption' from an international perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135282400
• Artikelnr.: 42830131

Autorenporträt

Tania Lewis is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Media and Communications at RMIT University, Melbourne. She is the author of Smart Living: Lifestyle Media and Popular Expertise (Peter Lang, 2008) and editor of TV Transformations: Revealing the Makeover Show (Routledge, 2008). She is currently conducting research on sustainable lifestyles and green citizenship, and is a chief investigator on an Australian Research Council-funded project (2010-2013) examining the role of lifestyle advice television in shaping social identity and consumer-citizenship in Asia. Emily Potter is a Research Fellow in the School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University. She is co-editor of Fresh Water: New perspectives on water in Australia (Melbourne University Press, 2007), and has published widely on questions of culture and the environment.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Part 1: Introduction 1. Introducing Ethical Consumption Part 2:
Politics 2. What's Wrong with Ethical Consumption? 3. The Simple and the
Good: Ethical Consumption as Anti-Consumerism 4. Fair Trade in Cyberspace:
The Commodification of Poverty and the Marketing of Crafts on the Internet
5. Neo-liberalism, the 'Obesity Epidemic' and the Challenge to Theory Part
3: Commodities and Materiality 6. Placing Alternative Consumption:
Commodity Fetishism in Borough Fine Foods Market, London 7. Feeding the
World: Towards a Messy Ethics of Eating 8. Drinking to Live: The Work of
Ethically-Branded Bottled Water 9. Ethical Consumption, Sustainable
Production, and Wine 10. Eco-ethical Electronic Consumption in the
'Smart-design' Economy 11. The Ethics of Second Hand Consumption 12. Is
Green the New Black? Exploring Ethical Fashion Consumption Part 4:
Practices, Sites and Representatives 13. Slow Living and the Temporalities
of Sustainable Consumption 14. Ethical Consumption Begins at Home: Green
Renovations, Eco-Homes and Sustainable Home Improvement 15. Cultivating
Citizen-subjects Through Collective Praxis: Organized Gardening Projects in
Australia and Philippines 16. Lifestyle Television: Gardening and the Good
Life 17. 'Caring at a Distance': The Ambiguity and Negotiations of Ethical
Investment18. The Moral Terrains of Ecotourism and the Ethics of
Consumption