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Ethical Consumption : a Critical Introduction.
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 ha...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; 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 handicrafts on the internet; 5 Neoliberalism, 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 eating8 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 representations; 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 the Philippines16 Lifestyle television: gardening and the good life; 17 'Caring at a distance': the ambiguity and negotiations of ethical investment; 18 The moral terrains of ecotourism and the ethics of consumption; Index.