Ethical Consumption

Social Value and Economic Practice
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78238-676-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 365 g

Increasingly, consumers in North America and Europe see their purchasing as a way to express to the commercial world their concerns about trade justice, the environment and similar issues. This ethical consumption has attracted growing attention in the press and among academics. Extending beyond the growing body of scholarly work on the topic in several ways, this volume focuses primarily on consumers rather than producers and commodity chains. It presents cases from a variety of European countries and is concerned with a wide range of objects and types of ethical consumption, not simply the usual tropical foodstuffs, trade justice and the system of fair trade. Contributors situate ethical consumption within different contexts, from common Western assumptions about economy and society, to the operation of ethical-consumption commerce, to the ways that people’s ethical consumption can affect and be affected by their social situation. By locating consumers and their practices in the social and economic contexts in which they exist and that their ethical consumption affects, this volume presents a compelling interrogation of the rhetoric and assumptions of ethical consumption.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carrier, James G.

Luetchford, Peter G.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures

Preface

Introduction

James G. Carrier

Section I: Producers and Consumers

Section Introduction

Chapter 1. Good chocolate? An examination of ethical consumption in cocoa

Amanda Berlan

Chapter 2. Consuming producers: fair trade and small farmers

Peter G. Luetchford

Chapter 3. ‘Trade, not aid’: imagining ethical economy

Lill Vramo

Chapter 4. ‘Today, one can farm organic without living organic’: Belgian farmers and recent changes in organic farming

Audrey Vankeerberghen

Section II: Ethical Consumption Contexts

Section Introduction

Chapter 5. Narratives of concern: beyond the ‘official’ discourse of ethical consumption in Hungary

Tamás Dombos

Chapter 6. Critical consumption in Palermo: imagined society, class and fractured locality

Giovanni Orlando

Chapter 7. On the challenges of signalling ethics without the stuff: tales of conspicuous green anti-consumption

Cindy Isenhour

Chapter 8. Ethical consumption as religious testimony: The Quaker case

Peter Collins

Chapter 9. Re-inventing food: the ethics of developing local food

Cristina Grasseni

Conclusion

James G. Carrier and Richard Wilk

About the contributors

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Luetchford, Peter G.
Peter G. Luetchford is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sussex and has carried out field research in Costa Rica and Spain. He has published on ethics and the economy, including Fair Trade and a Global Commodity: Coffee in Costa Rica (Pluto Press, 2008) and he is co-editor of Hidden Hands in the Market: Ethnographies of Fair Trade, Ethical Consumption and Corporate Social Responsibility (Research in Economic Anthropology 2008).

Carrier, James G.
James G. Carrier is a Hon. Research Associate at Oxford Brookes University and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Indiana. He has taught anthropology and sociology, and carried out research, in Papua New Guinea, the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as studying environmental conservation in Jamaica. His publications include Gifts and Commodities (Routledge 1995), Meanings of the Market (ed., Berg 1997) and Virtualism, Governance and Practice (co-ed. with West, Berghahn 2009).

James G. Carrier is a Hon. Research Associate at Oxford Brookes University and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Indiana. He has taught anthropology and sociology, and carried out research, in Papua New Guinea, the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as studying environmental conservation in Jamaica. His publications include Gifts and Commodities (Routledge 1995), Meanings of the Market (ed., Berg 1997) and Virtualism, Governance and Practice (co-ed. with West, Berghahn 2009).