{"product_id":"ethical-consumption-social-value-and-economic-practice-9781782386766","title":"Ethical Consumption: Social Value and Economic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tIncreasingly, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This edited volume brilliantly shows that ethical consumption is a process of socializing (and fetishizing) goods on the consumption side, as well as a process of economizing social values on the production side.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e  ·  Sociologus\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eAll of the case studies [presented] here are remarkable in terms of their analysis and ethnographic richness, providing a wonderfully nuanced picture of ethical consumption.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmerican Ethnologist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eThis is a great volume that…brings together a very good set of chapters that consider ethical consumption in a broad and therefore most stimulating manner. Rooted in an ethnographic approach and located within an anthropological line of thought, this volume will nevertheless have wide appeal beyond this discipline, and will no doubt be of great interest to cultural and media studies scholars, geographers, development studies and other related disciplines.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGeert de Neve\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Sussex\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eThis volume is a most timely contribution to a rapidly expanding literature in the social sciences. The editors are to be commended for assembling an interesting, well-written collection of essays.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMark Moberg\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of South Alabama\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of figures\u003cbr\u003e \tPreface\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJames G. Carrier\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eSection I: Producers and Consum\u003c\/strong\u003eers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eSection Introduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Good chocolate? An examination of ethical consumption in cocoa\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAmanda Berlan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Consuming producers: fair trade and small farmers\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePeter G. Luetchford\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e ‘Trade, not aid’: imagining ethical economy\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLill Vramo\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e ‘Today, one can farm organic without living organic’: Belgian farmers and recent changes in organic farming\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAudrey Vankeerberghen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eSection II: Ethical Consumption Contexts\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eSection Introduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Narratives of concern: beyond the ‘official’ discourse of ethical consumption in Hungary\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eTamás Dombos\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Critical consumption in Palermo: imagined society, class and fractured locality\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eGiovanni Orlando\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e On the challenges of signalling ethics without the stuff: tales of conspicuous green anti-consumption\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCindy Isenhour\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Ethical consumption as religious testimony: The Quaker case\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePeter Collins\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Re-inventing food: the ethics of developing local food\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCristina Grasseni\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eConclusion\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJames G. Carrier\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e Richard Wilk\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tAbout the contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042221097303,"sku":"9781782386766","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781782386766.jpg?v=1750953502","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ethical-consumption-social-value-and-economic-practice-9781782386766","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}