Ethical Consumption: A Critical Introduction

✍ Scribed by Tania Lewis and Emily Potter

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 297
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

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 eating
8 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 Philippines
16 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

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