Michele Micheletti
Biographic Data
| ID | 217838 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michele Micheletti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michele |
| FAMILY NAME | Micheletti |
| SIGNATURE | MICHELETTI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3789-2378 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 64 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 413 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 42 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Complying with Covid‐19 policy: The role of citizenship norms for young people's compliance with Sweden's voluntary Covid‐19 recommendations
Sweden's COVID‐19 policy was characterized by reliance on voluntary compliance. Citizens were expected to act responsibly. Previous research has not focused on the role of citizenship norms (duty‐based, engaged, and critical) in the COVID‐19 crisis. This is an important omission, since citizenship norms are expected to raise social responsibility and trigger prosocial behavior. This article asks how important citizenship norms are for explaining …
Mass Consumption and Political Consumerism
This chapter focuses on the relation between mass consumption and political consumerism. Mass consumption concerns the omnipresent role of consumption in contemporary societies with associated problems of excessive resource use in current practices of consumption. The late modern context and forces of mass consumption can both trigger and prevent political consumerism as well as shape its outcome. The chapter offers a literature review that addre…
The Shifting Politics of Sustainable Seafood Consumerism
Seafood has emerged as a key testing ground for understanding the role of different value chain actors in driving sustainability. The conventional view, developed in the late 1990s, is that sustainable seafood is driven by the choices and practices of consumers in major importing markets, such as the United States and the European Union. This view led to the development of a range of boycott and buycott initiatives in the 2000s. Many of the buyco…
Facilitating Political Consumerism in an Emerging Economy: The Case of Political Consumerism in Thailand
Thailand, an emerging economy in Southeast Asia, has witnessed the emergence of political consumerism over the last five decades. The start of political consumerism was in 1972 with a boycott of Japanese products due to their economic domination in Thailand. Since then political consumerism has acquired multiple forms. Owing to urbanization and economic development, the expanding urban middle-class has become an “agent of change.” Consumer organi…
Tracing Political Consumerism in Africa and the Middle East
This chapter provides an overview of political consumerism in Africa and the Middle East. Regarding the African continent, consumption is discussed in terms of lifestyle issues related to corruption and Western consumer cultures. In the Middle East and North Africa, political consumerism is closely related to religious controversies. Africa is also central in various global supply chains, such as those for food and minerals, which engage politica…
Modes of Coordination in Political Consumerism
This chapter uses the concept of modes of coordination to differentiate between various forms of political consumerism, often generically treated as consumer movements. When consumer activism consists primarily of individual purchasing decisions, it is difficult to speak of social movements, although consumption takes place in the context of retail/production organizations embedded in a specific consumerist subculture and not purely oriented to t…
Household Appliances and Electronics: Discussing the Relative Absence of Political Consumerism
Household appliances and electronics have massive environmental implications caused by the consumption of energy and scarce materials and the release of hazardous chemicals related to production, use, and disposal as well as social issues related to working conditions and the north-south division in production and waste handling. Still, political consumerism is quite absent from this field. Public policy measures within this area include energy l…
Political Consumerism in the Oil and Mining Extractive Industries: Possibilities for Sustainability and Social Justice
This chapter draws on a range of cases where boycotts, buycotts, and discursive tactics have been used to target oil and mineral extraction. The chapter provides an overview of the key actors, strategies, and political and structural factors that facilitate political consumerism around oil and mining. In doing so, it offers insight into the possibilities and limitations of political consumerism for addressing the environmental and social justice …
Political Food Consumerism between Mundane Routines and Organizational Alliance-Building
Food consumption is a mundane, embodied type of consumption as well as a target of multiple moral contestations. Politicized quite early, food consumption has remained a regular example of political consumerism, framed through a number of societal issues such as sustainability and global justice. This chapter shows that the research on political food consumerism is characterized by three tendencies. First, across other differences, researchers ap…
Political Consumerism: Research Challenges and Future Directions
This chapter highlights The Oxford Handbook of Political Consumerism ’s most interesting findings and identifies major characteristics and conceptual/methodological topics for advancing research on the phenomenon of political consumerism. It emphasizes how scholars study the phenomenon’s multidimensionality in a more fragmented context and explains differences in the forms and spread of political consumerism across industry sectors. The wide dive…
Political Consumerism and the Social-Practice Perspective
Social practice approaches, developed in sociology, contribute to the study of political consumerism by moving away from individual accounts of political consumerism and towards the study of everyday practices and their changes. This chapter presents the main conceptual tools and empirical orientations and connects these with political consumerism thinking. This leads to a focus on social practices, the embeddedness of different social practices,…
Boycotting and Buycotting in Consumer Cultures: Political Consumerism in North America
This chapter presents a historical overview of political consumerism in the United States and Canada, highlighting how societal and cultural shifts have influenced participation over time. The chapter begins by discussing the debatable origins of political consumerism in the Boston Tea Party to present-day examples, including fair trade and ecoconsumption. Throughout the chapter, there is an emphasis on the heterogeneity of political consumers, w…
The Successes of Political Consumerism as a Social Movement
The chapter aims at providing a set of interpretive tools to analyze the outcomes of consumer activism when performed through collective action. In the last years, there has been a shift from political consumerism understood as a practice of the individual citizen-consumer to political consumerism performed by a growing number of organized collectives like solidarity purchasing groups, consumer-producer cooperatives, ecological communities, etc. …
Utilizing Political Consumerism to Challenge the 21st Century Fast Fashion Industry
This chapter examines political consumerism in the fashion industry. The chapter provides a brief history of socially, environmentally, and economically objectionable practices within the industry. The frames for this historical overview are practices of fashion corporations in the 1990s and responding consumer action. Examination of current supply and demand factors driving political consumerism within the fashion industry are framed within the …
Political Consumerism and Corporate Strategy towards Sustainability Standard-Setting: In or Out of Sync?
This chapter surveys corporate activities to promote social, economic, and environmental standards across the clothing, electronics, and cocoa industries and argues that political consumerism has been one factor driving these activities. Factors pertaining to government intervention and business strategy, having little to do with societal pressure or conscientious consumer activities, also drive brands and retailers to engage in sustainability st…
Energy Devices and Political Consumerism in Reconfigured Energy Systems
This chapter discusses political consumerism in the context of a transformation towards a low-carbon electricity system. Over the past decades, deregulation, liberalisation, and privatisation have opened up spaces for Western consumers to influence the greening of energy provision and consumption via the market. Electricity system reconfiguration means a growing diversity of home-based energy devices that engage consumers with energy in new and a…
Political Consumerism for Sustainable Tourism: A Review
Over the last decades a substantial and growing societal and academic interest has emerged for the development of sustainable tourism. Scholars have highlighted the contribution of tourism to global environmental change and to local, detrimental social and environmental effects as well as to ways in which tourism contributes to nature conservation. Nevertheless the role of tourist consumers in driving sustainable tourism has remained unconvincing…
Toy Consumption as Political Challenges for Making Dreams Come True
This chapter looks at political consumerism in the toy sector, offering a brief history of consumer concerns and distinguishing among four strands of political consumerist research in this sector. A primary factor facilitating political consumerism of toys is that toy companies are extremely concerned about their reputation. Manufacturers cannot assume that parents and other carers do their usual risk-benefit analysis with the same level of risk …
“Buy White—Stay Fair”: Racist Political Consumerism in Australian History
This historical chapter investigates two examples of racist political consumerism in early-twentieth-century Australia. It found expression in a locally particular form known as the White Sugar campaign, which declared consumption of cane sugar a moral duty for everyone in support of White Australia. Meanwhile, the Buy Australian-Made campaign called on Australian consumers to express their national pride by consuming locally manufactured product…
Rejecting and Embracing Brands in Political Consumerism
Brands play important roles as targets and arenas for political consumerism. Much of political consumerist action navigates towards large and highly visible brands, which political consumers reject or embrace. This chapter views a brand—the name and logo of an actor/object and their associated/recognized meanings—as a core symbolic asset of an organization. The chapter argues that such a symbolic resource brings both opportunities and risks. A br…
Institutional Changes and Changing Political Consumerism in China
The growth of consumption is one of the most impressive social changes in contemporary China. This transformation is driven and shaped by the forces of globalization, economic growth, political modernization, the emerging middle class, industrialization/urbanization, advances in information and communication technologies, and sustainability challenges. Given China’s unique historical, cultural, and institutional context, it is highly interesting …
The Development of Political Consumerism in India: A Historical Perspective
This chapter provides a historical view of the development of political consumerism in India and details its present-day manifestations. Political consumerism in India emerged during the colonial period and was rooted in Gandhian ideologies such as swadeshi . The chapter highlights how swadeshi has been co-opted by political and business interests, which have recast it as a form of ascendant economic nationalism. Strategies such as boycotting hav…
Racialized Political Consumerism in the United States
In the United States, political consumerism has evolved alongside the country’s racial struggles. Throughout American history, ethnoracial minority groups have used different forms of racialized political consumerism in order to advance their rights. White supremacist groups have also taken part in boycotts to promote their cause. Addressing the need to assess the meaning and significance of a tactic that is considered to be a longstanding politi…
Political Consumerism in Central and Eastern Europe
This chapter compares political consumerism in Western Europe and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) as well as within the CEE region, using European Social Survey, Special Eurobarometer, Fairtrade sales, and qualitative data. The chapter begins by discussing the largely neglected legacy of the socialist era for political consumerism. The discussion then compares European countries along twenty-two aspects of political consumerism, encompassing eve…
Some Dilemmas of Political Consumerism: Class and Ecotourism Practices in the Philippines
In the Philippines, socioeconomic relations that result from deeply uneven market engagements have long made consumption a moral affair. Ecoconscious lifestyles and consumer practices remain largely the domain of elite and middle-class Filipinos, and as such, engagement with sustainable and environmentally friendly consumption may be seen not only as a marker of class distinction but also as a critique of urban and rural poor livelihood practices…
Politics in the Supermarket: Political Consumerism as a Form of Political Participation
Both anecdotal and case-study evidence have long suggested that consumer behavior such as the buying or boycotting of products and services for political and ethical reasons can take on political significance. Despite recent claims that such behavior has become more widespread in recent years, political consumerism has not been studied systematically in survey research on political participation. Through the use of a pilot survey conducted among …
Mobilizing Consumers to Take Responsibility for Global Social Justice
This article studies the antisweatshop movement's involvement in global social justice responsibility-taking. The movement's growth (more than one hundred diverse groups) makes it a powerful force of social change in the new millennium. The rise of global corporate capitalism has taken a toll on political responsibility. As a response, four important movement actors—unions, antisweatshop associations, international humanitarian organizations, and…
Sustainable Citizenship and the New Politics of Consumption
This article develops the notion of "sustainable citizenship" and distinguishes it from more conventional forms of citizenship. The authors formulate indicators of the presence of sustainable citizenship among individuals, in corporations, and in nongovernmental organizations and apply those indicators in two empirical studies. The first study is of institutions (Fairtrade International, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and The Walt D…
Fashioning Social Justice Through Political Consumerism, Capitalism, and the Internet1
Consumers, consumer goods, brand names, logos, and corporations are increasingly important in global struggles for social justice. Global social justice networks use a variety of innovative means to encourage shoppers to consider the hidden politics behind consumer goods and corporate brand names. They are using this power of mobilization to push transnational corporations to take more responsibility for the social consequences of their policy an…
Swedish corporatism at a crossroads: The impact of new politics and new social movements
1991). Swedish corporatism at a crossroads: The impact of new politics and new social movements. West European Politics: Vol. 14, Understanding the Swedish Model, pp. 144-165
End of Big Government: Is It Happening in the Nordic Countries
This paper offers a discussion on how to assess government in the Nordic countries. It shows that an answer to the question of whether big government is ending in the Nordic countries depends on how the words ‘big’ and ‘government’ are defined. ‘Bigness’ can be defined in terms of size or largeness (i.e., number of employees, relative costs, and spheres of involvement). It can also be defined in terms of its importance in society, which concerns …
Politics, products, and markets: Exploring Political Consumerism Past and Present
Toward Interest Inarticulation: A Major Consequence of Corporatism for Interest Organizations
The main issue discussed is the difficulties in collective action. Three logics of collective action are identified and discussed in terms of their implications for solidarity within interest organizations and for organizational action. Both solidarity and organizational action are important for successful policymaking. Policies can be decided without the support of the members, but their implementation may thus prove difficult. The theoretical i…
La svolta dei consumatori nella responsabilitŕ politica e nella cittadinanza
This article investigates how and why a growing number of civil society actors increasingly turn to the market as a complement to, or replacement of, traditional tools of political participation. After a discussion about its historical antecedents, the paper focuses on the present features of political consumerism. A section dedicated to theoretical issues introduces the concept of individualized responsibilitytaking to explain why societal roles…
Democracy and Political Power in Denmark,Norway and Sweden: A Review-Essay
Demokrati og politiske ressurser. By Gudmund Hernes and Willy Martinussen. (NOU 1980: 7) (Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1980. Pp. 189, Appen. Approx. $3.00) Folkets veje i dansk politik. Edited by Erik Damgaard. (Copenhagen: Schultz Forlag, 1980. Pp. 283, Appen. Approx. $25.00) Makt og avmakt. By Gudmund Hernes. (Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1975. Pp. 230, Appen. Approx. $13.00) Maktutredningen Slutrapport (NOU 1982: 3) (Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, …
Democracy and Political Power in Denmark, Norway and Sweden: A Review-Essay
Organization and Representation of Farmers' Interests in Sweden
Toward Interest Inarticulation: A Major Consequence of Corporatism for Interest Organizations
The main issue discussed is the difficulties in collective action. Three logics of collective action are identified and discussed in terms of their implications for solidarity within interest organizations and for organizational action. Both solidarity and organizational action are important for successful policymaking. Policies can be decided without the support of the members, but their implementation may thus prove difficult. The theoretical i…
Swedish corporatism at a crossroads: The impact of new politics and new social movements
1991). Swedish corporatism at a crossroads: The impact of new politics and new social movements. West European Politics: Vol. 14, Understanding the Swedish Model, pp. 144-165
We're Worth It! Women and Collective Action in the Insurance Workplace. Cynthia B. Costello
End of Big Government: Is It Happening in the Nordic Countries
This paper offers a discussion on how to assess government in the Nordic countries. It shows that an answer to the question of whether big government is ending in the Nordic countries depends on how the words ‘big’ and ‘government’ are defined. ‘Bigness’ can be defined in terms of size or largeness (i.e., number of employees, relative costs, and spheres of involvement). It can also be defined in terms of its importance in society, which concerns …
Political Virtue and Shopping
Political consumerism is turning the market into a site for politics and ethics. It is consumer choice of producers and products on the basis of attitudes and values of personal and family well-being
Political Virtue and Shopping Individuals, Consumerism, and Collective Action: Individuals, Consumerism, and Collective Action
This volume reveals a way of viewing everyday consumer choices and the role of the market in our lives, illuminating the broader theoretical and historical context of concerns about sweatshops, res
Politics, products, and markets: Exploring Political Consumerism Past and Present
Politics in the Supermarket: Political Consumerism as a Form of Political Participation
Both anecdotal and case-study evidence have long suggested that consumer behavior such as the buying or boycotting of products and services for political and ethical reasons can take on political significance. Despite recent claims that such behavior has become more widespread in recent years, political consumerism has not been studied systematically in survey research on political participation. Through the use of a pilot survey conducted among …
Mobilizing Consumers to Take Responsibility for Global Social Justice
This article studies the antisweatshop movement's involvement in global social justice responsibility-taking. The movement's growth (more than one hundred diverse groups) makes it a powerful force of social change in the new millennium. The rise of global corporate capitalism has taken a toll on political responsibility. As a response, four important movement actors—unions, antisweatshop associations, international humanitarian organizations, and…
Fashioning Social Justice Through Political Consumerism, Capitalism, and the Internet1
Consumers, consumer goods, brand names, logos, and corporations are increasingly important in global struggles for social justice. Global social justice networks use a variety of innovative means to encourage shoppers to consider the hidden politics behind consumer goods and corporate brand names. They are using this power of mobilization to push transnational corporations to take more responsibility for the social consequences of their policy an…
La svolta dei consumatori nella responsabilitŕ politica e nella cittadinanza: Risposta Ai Commenti
La svolta dei consumatori nella responsabilitŕ politica e nella cittadinanza
This article investigates how and why a growing number of civil society actors increasingly turn to the market as a complement to, or replacement of, traditional tools of political participation. After a discussion about its historical antecedents, the paper focuses on the present features of political consumerism. A section dedicated to theoretical issues introduces the concept of individualized responsibilitytaking to explain why societal roles…
Sustainable Citizenship and the New Politics of Consumption
This article develops the notion of "sustainable citizenship" and distinguishes it from more conventional forms of citizenship. The authors formulate indicators of the presence of sustainable citizenship among individuals, in corporations, and in nongovernmental organizations and apply those indicators in two empirical studies. The first study is of institutions (Fairtrade International, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, and The Walt D…
Political Consumerism: Global Responsibility in Action
Political Consumerism captures the creative ways in which citizens, consumers and political activists use the market as their arena for politics. This book theorizes, describes, analyzes, compares and evaluates the phenomenon of political consumerism and how it attempts to use market choice to solve complex globalized problems. It investigates theoretically and empirically how and why consumers practice citizenship and have become important polit…
Creative Participation
Creative Participation: Responsibility-Taking in the Political World
Mass Consumption and Political Consumerism
This chapter focuses on the relation between mass consumption and political consumerism. Mass consumption concerns the omnipresent role of consumption in contemporary societies with associated problems of excessive resource use in current practices of consumption. The late modern context and forces of mass consumption can both trigger and prevent political consumerism as well as shape its outcome. The chapter offers a literature review that addre…
The Shifting Politics of Sustainable Seafood Consumerism
Seafood has emerged as a key testing ground for understanding the role of different value chain actors in driving sustainability. The conventional view, developed in the late 1990s, is that sustainable seafood is driven by the choices and practices of consumers in major importing markets, such as the United States and the European Union. This view led to the development of a range of boycott and buycott initiatives in the 2000s. Many of the buyco…
Facilitating Political Consumerism in an Emerging Economy: The Case of Political Consumerism in Thailand
Thailand, an emerging economy in Southeast Asia, has witnessed the emergence of political consumerism over the last five decades. The start of political consumerism was in 1972 with a boycott of Japanese products due to their economic domination in Thailand. Since then political consumerism has acquired multiple forms. Owing to urbanization and economic development, the expanding urban middle-class has become an “agent of change.” Consumer organi…
Tracing Political Consumerism in Africa and the Middle East
This chapter provides an overview of political consumerism in Africa and the Middle East. Regarding the African continent, consumption is discussed in terms of lifestyle issues related to corruption and Western consumer cultures. In the Middle East and North Africa, political consumerism is closely related to religious controversies. Africa is also central in various global supply chains, such as those for food and minerals, which engage politica…
Modes of Coordination in Political Consumerism
This chapter uses the concept of modes of coordination to differentiate between various forms of political consumerism, often generically treated as consumer movements. When consumer activism consists primarily of individual purchasing decisions, it is difficult to speak of social movements, although consumption takes place in the context of retail/production organizations embedded in a specific consumerist subculture and not purely oriented to t…
Household Appliances and Electronics: Discussing the Relative Absence of Political Consumerism
Household appliances and electronics have massive environmental implications caused by the consumption of energy and scarce materials and the release of hazardous chemicals related to production, use, and disposal as well as social issues related to working conditions and the north-south division in production and waste handling. Still, political consumerism is quite absent from this field. Public policy measures within this area include energy l…
Political science (62 works) · Politics (56 works) · Sociology (52 works) · Law (49 works) · Consumerism (48 works) · Political economy (31 works) · Economics (25 works) · Business (20 works) · Social science (20 works) · Consumption (sociology) (16 works)