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Ethical Consumption

Author : James G. Carrier,Peter G. Luetchford
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857453433

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Ethical Consumption by James G. Carrier,Peter G. Luetchford Pdf

Increasingly, consumers in North America and Europe see their purchasing as a way to express to the commercial world their concerns about trade justice, the environment and similar issues. This ethical consumption has attracted growing attention in the press and among academics. Extending beyond the growing body of scholarly work on the topic in several ways, this volume focuses primarily on consumers rather than producers and commodity chains. It presents cases from a variety of European countries and is concerned with a wide range of objects and types of ethical consumption, not simply the usual tropical foodstuffs, trade justice and the system of fair trade. Contributors situate ethical consumption within different contexts, from common Western assumptions about economy and society, to the operation of ethical-consumption commerce, to the ways that people’s ethical consumption can affect and be affected by their social situation. By locating consumers and their practices in the social and economic contexts in which they exist and that their ethical consumption affects, this volume presents a compelling interrogation of the rhetoric and assumptions of ethical consumption.

Ethical Consumption

Author : Alex Hiller,Helen Goworek
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000896770

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Ethical Consumption by Alex Hiller,Helen Goworek Pdf

Arising from foundations in green and eco-consumerism, ethical consumption is a multidisciplinary area of research. This shortform book presents an expert view of the empirical evidence on ethical consumption, incorporating perspectives from marketing, psychology and sociology. It takes both a historical and a thematic perspective, covering definitions of ethical consumption, typologies of ethical consumer practices, successes brought about from consumer actions and the current challenges. It also focuses on the emergence of contemporary perspectives on ethical consumer behaviour from three discrete perspectives: those focusing on consumer segmentation (the profiling of ethical consumers), those which take a psychological approach (the decision- making processes which underpin ethical consumption) and those which are sociological in nature (the identities and practices which underpin ethical consumption). The book finally synthesises these perspectives in the context of the ‘problems’ that are often claimed to exist, such as the existence of the ‘attitude– behaviour gap’, and provides conclusions which make recommendations for practice and further research. It will be of interest to academics and students of marketing, consumption and related fields, as well as to practitioners and policymakers who want to understand more about the evidence pertaining to ethical consumers, what motivates them, and how to encourage and educate them to consume more ethically.

The Ethical Consumer

Author : Rob Harrison,Terry Newholm,Deirdre Shaw
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-04-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 141290353X

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The Ethical Consumer by Rob Harrison,Terry Newholm,Deirdre Shaw Pdf

Focusing on ethical consumers, their behavior, discourses and narratives as well as the social and political contexts in which they operate, this text provides a summary of the manner and effectiveness of their actions.

Ethical Consumption: Practices and Identities

Author : Yana Manyukhina
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351716451

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Ethical Consumption: Practices and Identities by Yana Manyukhina Pdf

This book engages with the topic of ethical consumption and applies a critical-realist approach to explore the process of becoming and being an ethical consumer. By integrating Margaret Archer’s theory of identity formation and Christian Coff’s work on food ethics, it develops a theoretical account explicating the generative mechanism that gives rise to ethical consumer practices and identities. The second part of the book presents the findings from a qualitative study with self-perceived ethical food consumers to demonstrate the fit between the proposed theoretical mechanism and the actual experiences of ethically committed consumers. Through integrating agency-focused and socio-centric perspectives on consumer behaviour, the book develops a more comprehensive and balanced approach to conceptualising and studying consumption processes and phenomena.

Ethical Consumption

Author : Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier
Publisher : Fernwood Books Limited
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1552665836

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Ethical Consumption by Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier Pdf

Consumers are often importuned to exercise responsibility in the market sphere and to consume with an eye to their obligations as citizens. They express their ideals directly through their purchases, participating in larger-scale protests: boycotting products from a large multinational corporation, buying ethical products, resisting advertising campaigns and supporting alternative forms of trade. Whether in the form of a small collective action or a mass movement, the capacity to put new environmental or ethical social issues on the political, economic or media agenda via the market is quite real. While most ethical consumption does not challenge capitalism or the very foundations of the market itself, it does raise issues and consciousness about social and environmental justice. In Ethical Consumption, Dubuisson-Quellier suggests that ethical consumption can create a consumerism that is not only a forum for expressing the needs and wants as the market has done in the past, but as a space for the construction of social responsibility.

The Myth of the Ethical Consumer Hardback with DVD

Author : Timothy M. Devinney,Pat Auger,Giana M. Eckhardt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521766944

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The Myth of the Ethical Consumer Hardback with DVD by Timothy M. Devinney,Pat Auger,Giana M. Eckhardt Pdf

A no-holds-barred examination of 'ethical' consumerism.

Managing Ethical Consumption in Tourism

Author : Clare Weeden,Karla Boluk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317999690

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Managing Ethical Consumption in Tourism by Clare Weeden,Karla Boluk Pdf

Neither the tourism industry nor the tourist has responded convincingly to calls for more responsibility in tourism. Ethical consumption places pressure on travellers to manage a large number of decisions at a time when hedonic motivations threaten to override other priorities. Unsurprisingly, tensions occur and compromises are made. This book offers new insight into the motivations that influence tourists and their decision-making. It explores how consumers navigate the responsible tourism market place and provide a rich understanding of the challenges facing those seeking to encourage travellers to become responsible. Not only will the book provide an improved interpretation of the complexity of ethical consumption in tourism, but it will also offer a variety of stakeholders a deeper understanding of: the key challenges facing stakeholders in the production and consumption of responsible tourism how ethical consumers can be influenced to consume ethically the gaps in consumer knowledge and how to broaden the appeal for individuals to make more informed ethical decisions how tour operators can respond to this emerging market by innovative product development how to design informative marketing communications to encourage a greater uptake for responsible holidays how destinations can tailor their products to the ethical consumer market how destination communities and management organisations can target responsible tourists through the provision of sustainable alternatives to mass-market holiday products. Written by leading academics from all over the world, this timely and important volume will be valuable reading for ubdergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and academics interested in Tourism Ethics, Ethical Consumption and the global issue of Sustainability.

Ethics and Morality in Consumption

Author : Deirdre Shaw,Michal Carrington,Andreas Chatzidakis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317653943

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Ethics and Morality in Consumption by Deirdre Shaw,Michal Carrington,Andreas Chatzidakis Pdf

Ethical consumerism is on the rise. No longer bound to the counter-cultural fringes, ethical concerns and practices are reaching into the mainstream of society and being adopted by everyday consumers – from considering carbon miles to purchasing free-range eggs to making renewable energy choices. The wide reach and magnitude of ethical issues in society across individual and collective consumption has given rise to a series of important questions that are inspiring scholars from a range of disciplinary areas. These differing disciplinary lenses, however, tend to be contained in separate streams of research literature that are developing in parallel and in relative isolation. Ethics in Morality and Consumption takes an interdisciplinary perspective to provide multiple vantage points in creating a more holistic and integrated view of ethics in consumption. In this sense, interdisciplinary presupposes the consideration of multiple and distinct disciplines, which in this book are considered in delineated chapters. In addition, the Editors make an editorial contribution in the final chapter of the book by combining these separate disciplinary perspectives to develop a nascent interdisciplinary perspective that integrates these perspectives and presents platforms for further research.

Coffee Activism and the Politics of Fair Trade and Ethical Consumption in the Global North

Author : Eleftheria J. Lekakis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137282699

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Coffee Activism and the Politics of Fair Trade and Ethical Consumption in the Global North by Eleftheria J. Lekakis Pdf

This book explores the politics borne of consumption through the case of coffee activism and ethical consumption. It analyses the agencies, structures, repertoires and technologies of promotion and participation in the politics of fair trade consumption through an exploration of the relationship between activism and consumption.

Ethical Consumption

Author : Tania Lewis,Emily Potter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135282394

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Ethical Consumption by Tania Lewis,Emily Potter Pdf

A not-so-quiet revolution seems to be occurring in wealthy capitalist societies - supermarkets selling ‘guilt free’ Fairtrade products; lifestyle TV gurus exhorting us to eat less, buy local and go green; neighbourhood action groups bent on ‘swopping not shopping’. And this is happening not at the margins of society but at its heart, in the shopping centres and homes of ordinary people. Today we are seeing a mainstreaming of ethical concerns around consumption that reflects an increasing anxiety with - and accompanying sense of responsibility for - the risks and excesses of contemporary lifestyles in the ‘global north’. This collection of essays provides a range of critical tools for understanding the turn towards responsible or conscience consumption and, in the process, interrogates the notion that we can shop our way to a more ethical, sustainable future. Written by leading international scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds - and drawing upon examples from across the globe - Ethical Consumption makes a major contribution to the still fledgling field of ethical consumption studies. This collection is a must-read for anyone interested in the relationship between consumer culture and contemporary social life.

Ethical Consumerism

Author : Justin Healey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Consumer behavior
ISBN : 1922084085

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Ethical Consumerism by Justin Healey Pdf

A series of books which contain previously published information sourced from newspapers, magazines, journals, government reports, surveys, websites and lobby group literature. The series offers up to date diverse information about the social issues shaping our changing world.

Globalizing Responsibility

Author : Clive Barnett,Paul Cloke,Nick Clarke,Alice Malpass
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781444390230

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Globalizing Responsibility by Clive Barnett,Paul Cloke,Nick Clarke,Alice Malpass Pdf

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

Green Asia

Author : Tania Lewis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317524748

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Green Asia by Tania Lewis Pdf

Economic development in Asia is associated with expanding urbanism, overconsumption, and a steep growth in living standards. At the same time, rapid urbanisation, changing class consciousness, and a new rural–urban divide in the region have led to fundamental shifts in the way ecological concerns are articulated politically and culturally. Moreover, these changes are often viewed through a Western moralistic lens, which at the same time applauds Asia’s economic growth as the welcome reviver of a floundering world economy and simultaneously condemns this growth as encouraging hyperconsumerism and a rupture with more natural ways of living. This book presents an analysis of a range of practices and activities from across Asia that demonstrate that people in Asia are alert to ecological concerns, that they are taking action to implement new styles of green living, and that Asia offers interesting alternatives to narrow Anglo-American models of sustainable living. Subjects explored include eco-tourism in the Philippines, green co-operatives in Korea, the importance of "tradition" within Asian discourses of sustainability, and much more.

The ethics of consumption

Author : Helena Röcklinsberg,Per Sandin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789086867844

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The ethics of consumption by Helena Röcklinsberg,Per Sandin Pdf

We are all consumers. What we consume, how, and how much, has consequences of great moral importance for humans, animals, and the environment. Great challenges lie ahead as we are facing population growth and climate change and reduced availability of fossil fuels. It is often argued that key to meeting those challenges is changing consumption patterns among individual as well as institutions, for instance through reducing meat consumption, switching to organic or fair trade products, boycotting or 'buycotting' certain products, or consuming less overall. There is considerable disagreement regarding how to bring this about, whose responsibility it is, and even whether it is desirable. Is it a question of political initiatives, producer responsibility, the virtues and vices of individual consumers in the developed world, or something else? Many of these issues pose profound intellectual challenges at the intersection of ethics, political philosophy, economics, and several other fields. This publication brings together contributions from scholars in numerous disciplines, including philosophy, law, economics, sociology and animal welfare, who explore the theme of 'the ethics of consumption' from different angles.

Hidden Hands in the Market

Author : Peter Luetchford,Geert De Neve,Jeffery Pratt
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781848550582

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Hidden Hands in the Market by Peter Luetchford,Geert De Neve,Jeffery Pratt Pdf

Engages with a range of alternative ethical perspectives and the initiatives to which they give rise. This book features case studies that covers a range of places, commodities and initiatives, including Fair Trade and organic production activism in Hungary, Fair Trade coffee in Costa Rica and handicrafts made in Indonesia.