Ethical consumption5/16/2023 ![]() Second, ethical assessments based on simplistic, dichotomously construed binary categories, such as good/bad, us/them, individual/collective and local/global, conceal important ways of thinking and acting which integrate, or blur, as the case may, different levels of understanding and action. ![]() First, many authors argue convincingly that there are no simple solutions to the environmental and social problems created by neo-liberal capitalist production and marketing strategies. Several themes run through this anthology. Reviews: Sheila Mason on Leisure/Loisir wrote: ![]() This collection is a must-read for anyone interested in the relationship between consumer culture and contemporary social life. Written by leading international scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds - and drawing upon examples from across the globe - Ethical Consumption makes a major contribution to the still fledgling field of ethical consumption studies. This collection of essays provides a range of critical tools for understanding the turn towards responsible or conscience consumption and, in the process, interrogates the notion that we can shop our way to a more ethical, sustainable future. Today we are seeing a mainstreaming of ethical concerns around consumption that reflects an increasing anxiety with - and accompanying sense of responsibility for - the risks and excesses of contemporary lifestyles in the ‘global north’. ![]() And this is happening not at the margins of society but at its heart, in the shopping centres and homes of ordinary people. 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’. ![]()
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