Globalizing responsibility : the political rationalities of ethical consumption
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 ethical consumption 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 ethical consumption within social theoretical debates on neoliberalism, governmentality, and globalization. - (HC)
The ethics of place and environmental change : some examples from the South Pacific
Environment ; Ethics ; Ideology ; Pacific Region ; Place ; Semiotics of space ; Society ; South Pacific Ocean ; Space
This paper concerns place and placelessness, and suggests links between those two and types of environmental ethic. An historical analysis of place based ethics and environmental degradation draws on examples from the Pacific basin. Finally
, relationships between environmental ethics and traditional patterns of resource exploitation are proposed for several island societies.
Geopolitics, ethics, and the evangelicals' commitment to Sudan
Conflict ; Cultural studies ; Decision making process ; Ethics ; Geopolitics ; Humanitarian aid ; Power ; Religion ; Sudan
The paper focuses on geopolitical civil society, emphasizing the role that rationalized norms and emotive care-ethics play in molding and facilitating certain forms of geographical knowledge and subsequent foreign interventions. The focus
is on American evangelical actors and their specific geopolitical vision, which is largely based on the perceived universal authority of the Bible. The paper also traces the emergence of an ethics of care that has developed within evangelical circles regarding
Ethical issues in interviewing as a research method in human geography
The establishment of ethics procedures in Australian universities forces most interview-based studies into an empirical-realist framework of scientific enquiry. Ethic procedures generally fail to cope with issues of power and gender relations
in interviewing and with issues of representing others through language. Interviews with lone fathers are used to exemplify some of the ethical issues in the use of interviewing as a research method.
Smallholding, hobby-farming, and commercial farming : ethical identities and the production of farming spaces
Agriculture ; Cultural studies ; Ethics ; Farmer ; Identity ; Production of space ; United Kingdom
The paper explores the production of farming identities and spaces, focusing especially on the relational construction of situated ethical identities. Using three case studies drawn from research with very small-scale farmers, the A. examines
processes of identification, drawing on ideas which suggest the importance of encounter, farming discourse, physical relation and heterogeneous association in the emergence of ethical identity in specific farming situations and places.
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
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 ethical consumption are seeked
Sticky lives : slugs, detachment and more-than-human ethics in the garden
England ; Ethics ; Garden ; Human ecology ; London ; Relations between human and animal bodies ; Space ; United Kingdom
This article examines slugs, detachment and more-than-human ethics in the garden in London, England. First, it describes how slugs and gardeners are ‘sticky’: joined together by shared histories, curiosity and disgust. It then shifts to examine how
-than-human ethics. In conclusion the paper argues for looser mappings of relationality and ethics that attend more fully to the distance between species.
Contributing to global change science : the ethics, obligations and opportunities of working with palaeoenvironmental databases
Climate ; Climatic variation ; Data base ; Ethics ; Global change ; Holocene ; Model ; Palaeo-environment ; Palaeoclimate
necessarily be available in the form of large-scale data syntheses. International database activities have made the construction of several large-scale syntheses possible. Nevertheless, practical and ethical difficulties continue to hamper the creation
Fairness and ethicality in their place : the regional dynamics of fair trade and ethical sourcing agendas in the plantation districts of South India : Ethical foodscapes?: premises, promises, and possibilities
Ethical foodscapes ? : premises, promises and possibilities
Agriculture ; Cultivated plants ; Ethics ; Fair trade ; Globalization ; India ; Karnataka ; Kerala ; Peasantry ; Plantation ; Rural economy ; Tamil Nadu ; Traditional agriculture