Barnett / Cloke / Clarke Globalizing Responsibility

The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4443-9023-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten, E-Book

Globalizing Responsibility: The Political Rationalities ofEthical Consumption presents an innovative reinterpretation ofthe forces that have shaped the remarkable growth of ethicalconsumption.
* Develops a theoretically informed new approach to shape ourunderstanding of the pragmatic nature of ethical action inconsumption processes
* Provides empirical research on everyday consumers, socialnetworks, and campaigns
* Fills a gap in research on the topic with its distinctive focuson fair trade consumption
* Locates ethical consumption within a range of socialtheoretical debates -on neoliberalism, governmentality, andglobalisation
* Challenges the moralism of much of the analysis of ethicalconsumption, which sees it as a retreat from proper citizenlypolitics and an expression of individualised consumerism

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barnett, Clive

Cloke, Paul

Clarke, Nick

Malpass, Alice

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editors' Preface.
Preface and Acknowledgements.
1 Introduction: Politicizing Consumption in an UnequalWorld.
1.1 The Moralization of Consumption.
1.2 Justice, Responsibility and the Politics of Consumption.
1.3 Relocating Agency in Ethical Consumption.
1.4 Problematizing Consumption.
Part One Theorizing Consumption Differently.
2 The Ethical Problematization of 'The Consumer'.
2.1 Teleologies of Consumerism and Individualization.
2.2 Theorizing Consumers as Political Subjects.
2.3 The Responsibilization of the Consumer.
2.4 What Type of Subject Is 'The Consumer'?
2.5 Does Governing Consumption Involve Governing theConsumer?
2.6 The Ethical Problematization of the Consumer.
2.7 Conclusion.
3 Practising Consumption.
3.1 The Antinomies of Consumer Choice.
3.2 Theorizing Consumption Practices.
3.3 Problematizing Choice.
3.4 Articulating Background.
3.5 Conclusion.
4 Problematizing Consumption.
4.1 Consumer Choice and Citizenly Acts.
4.2 Articulating Consumption and the Consumer.
4.3 Mobilizing the Ethical Consumer.
4.4 Articulating the Ethical Consumer.
4.5 Conclusion.
Part Two Doing Consumption Differently.
5 Grammars of Responsibility.
5.1 Justifying Practices.
5.2 Researching the (Ir)responsible Consumer.
5.3 Versions of Responsibility.
5.4 Dilemmas of Responsibility.
5.5 Conclusion.
6 Local Networks of Global Feeling.
6.1 Locating the Fair Trade Consumer.
6.2 Re-evaluating Fair Trade Consumption.
6.3 Managing Fair Trade, Mobilizing Networks.
6.4 Doing Fair Trade: Buying, Giving, Campaigning.
6.5 Conclusion.
7 Fairtrade Urbanism.
7.1 Rethinking the Spatialities of Fair Trade.
7.2 Re-imagining Bristol: From Slave Trade to Fair Trade.
7.3 Putting Fair Trade in Place.
7.4 Fair Trade and 'The Politics of Place Beyond Place'.
7.5 Conclusion.
8 Conclusion: Doing Politics in an Ethical Register.
8.1 Beyond the Consumer.
8.2 Doing Responsibility.
Notes.
References.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Clive Barnett is Reader in Human Geography, Faculty ofSocial Sciences, The Open University.
Paul Cloke is Professor of Human Geography, Department ofGeography, University of Exeter.
Nick Clarke is Lecturer in Human Geography, Department ofGeography, University of Southampton.
Alice Malpass is Research Associate, Primary Health Care,University of Bristol.