Globalizing Responsibility: The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption

Globalizing Responsibility: The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption

Language: English

Pages: 248

ISBN: 1405145579

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


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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FAIRTRADE URBANISM 187 Beginning with these three local authority professionals, Bristol’s Fairtrade City campaign steering group quickly brought together a range of other activists and interests from around the city. These included faith-based activists from Christian Aid, Traidcraft and Oxfam; ethical business interests representing local food retail outlets; Equop, a local organic fair trade clothing company; locally based national interests such as the Triodos Bank and the Co-operative;.

And embedded in infrastructures of everyday life. We develop this double displacement in this book – away from the focus on the consumer and on shopping, towards organized assemblages of agency and towards an understanding of consumption as embedded in everyday practices of social reproduction. The emergence of debates about political consumerism, along with the burgeoning literature on fair trade campaigns, alternative food networks and organized boycotts of ‘sweatshop’ goods, brings into view.

Resources. In Chapter 3, we argued that the problematization of expanded commodity consumption and the explicit mobilization of ‘consumer’ identities are only contingently related. In this chapter, we have argued that the mobilization of the consumer as an ‘ethical’ subject, enrolled into various collective projects of solidarity, is best explained with reference to the strategic repertoires deployed in contemporary activist and advocacy politics. Effective activist communication has increasingly.

The fair trade scheme. DAVID: Maybe, but in the meanwhile the poor people in that country are going through . . . JOAN: Fair trade’s in most countries isn’t it? NANCY: Yeah.25 This sequence of talk is notable because it involves a quite explicit argument between participants about the ethics of fair trade. While we have already seen that focus group participants are able to articulate disagreements and differences about the topic in front of them, this rarely took the form of a direct.

The North (Murray and Raynolds 2000; Raynolds 2002; Tallantire 2000; Tiffin 2002). There are three recurring topics of debate in academic literatures on fair trade. The first involves assessing the impacts of fair trading on producer communities (Bacon 2005; Moberg 2005), and seeks to acknowledge positive achievements without falling into overzealous depictions of fair trade outcomes (Hilson 2008). Fair trade does not function evenly across a range of different producer communities, with specific.

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