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Globalizing Responsibility
eBook - The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption
Barnett, Clive/Malpass, Alice/Cloke, Paul et al
ISBN/EAN: 9781444390230
Umbreit-Nr.: 3835569
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 248 S., 0.76 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 09.12.2010
Auflage: 1/2010
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p><b><i>Globalizing Responsibility: The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption</i> presents an innovative reinterpretation of the forces that have shaped the remarkable growth of ethical consumption.</b></p><ul><li>Develops a theoretically informed new approach to shape our understanding of the pragmatic nature of ethical action in consumption processes</li><li>Provides empirical research on everyday consumers, social networks, and campaigns</li><li>Fills a gap in research on the topic with its distinctive focus on fair trade consumption</li><li>Locates ethical consumption within a range of social theoretical debates -on neoliberalism, governmentality, and globalisation</li><li>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</li></ul>
- Autorenportrait
- <b>Clive Barnett</b> is Reader in Human Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University.<p><b>Paul Cloke</b> is Professor of Human Geography, Department of Geography, University of Exeter.</p><p><b>Nick Clarke</b> is Lecturer in Human Geography, Department of Geography, University of Southampton.</p><p><b>Alice Malpass</b> is Research Associate, Primary Health Care, University of Bristol.<br /></p>