Globalizing responsibility : the political rationalities of ethicalconsumption
Behaviour ; Consumer behaviour ; Consumption ; Ethics ; Globalization ; Governmentality ; Neo liberalism ; Social network ; Social theory
This book presents a reinterpretation of the forces that have shaped the remarkable growth of ethicalconsumption in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in developed economies. It develops new ideas to shape understanding of the pragmatic nature
of ethical action in the consumption process; provides empirical research on consumers, social networks and campaigns; and locates ethicalconsumption within social theoretical debates on neoliberalism, governmentality, and globalization. - (HC)
to debates vis-à-vis the possibilities and limitations of ethical commodities as a vehicle for ethical action. Ethnographies attentive to the nuances of institutional embeddedness and open to the broader implications of ethicalconsumption are seeked
The nine papers hold in common an appreciation for the manner in which ethical commodities are rooted in, nurtured, and challenged by the dreams, cares, and workaday lives of commodity-chain participants. The goal for this project is to contribute
. The interplay of meaning and materiality across dispersed sites of origin, certification and consumption is traced. Political and cultural economy themes such as rents, labor processes, commodity fetichism and governmentality are considered.
Ethics ; Human body ; Human geography ; Research ; Sleep
The paper provides a preliminary indication of fruitful directions for geographical research on sleep, reviewing salient work in geography and in cognate disciplines to develop a case for research in four domains : sleep and consumption, sleep
Thrifty, green or frugal : reflections on sustainable consumption in a changing economic climate
Consumption ; Economic recession ; Enquiry ; Ethics ; Frugality ; Impact study ; Social practice ; South-East England ; Sustainable development ; United Kingdom
Nutrition usually is not an issue of economic geography. The article focuses on relations of proximity and distance with situations of nutrition. It focuses on ethical and aesthetic questions of the relationship to food. Updating the theses
of Norbert Elias the article tackles the relationship between food-industry, economics of desires, diets, lifestyle and several types of consumption. The subject is exemplified by the global trade in shrimps. - (IfL)
Consumer behaviour ; Ethicalconsumption ; Investment ; Market area ; Marketing ; Multinational firm ; Non-governmental organization ; Trade policy ; United States of America