From Ethical Consumerism to Political Consumption
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5877608 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nick Clarke (0000-0001-9148-9849, University of Southampton, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1870-1884 |
| Publication date | 2008-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geography Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-8198 • E-ISSN: 1749-8198 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2008.00170.x |
| OpenAlex | W2124713579 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 42 |
| References cited | 72 |
This article reviews some of the recent literature in geography and related disciplines on ethical consumerism and political consumption. Many geographers began their engagement with questions of ethics, politics, consumption and consumerism inspired by critical theory, commodity chain analysis and a sense that geographical knowledge might have a central role to play in progressive social change. Since these early engagements, it has been established that consumption practices are rarely the practices of rational, autonomous, self-identified consumers, and so-called ethical consumption practices are rarely detached from organisations and their political activity. Over time, therefore, some researchers have gradually shifted their focus from consumer identities and knowledge to consumption practices, social networks, material infrastructures and organisations of various kinds. This shift in focus has implications - both for the field of political consumption and for how the discipline of geography relates to this field
Commodity · Commodity chain · Consumerism · Economics · Environmental ethics · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Law · Organic Food and Agriculture
On the Significance of Alternative Economic Practices
Ethical Consumers
Alternative Economies and Spaces
A Discrete Choice Experiment of Older Self-Funders’ Preferences When Navigating Community Social Care
Planting the seeds of a quiet activism
Investigating students’ perceptions of single-use plastics at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Onerous consumption
From ethical consumers to collective action
Place Geography and the Ethics of Care
The Ethics and Politics of Food Purchasing Choices in Italian Consumers’ Collective Action
Moving beyond direct marketing with new mediated models
Place-making with goats and microbes
Geographies of identity
Geographies of consumption
When beef consumption becomes politicized
Community-Based Determinants of Community Engagement
Shame, guilt, and the production of urban space
Regimes of Ethical Value? Landscape, Race and Representation in the Canadian Diamond Industry
Climate change, critical theory and economic democracy
New actors and alliances in development
Aesthetics and ethics
Ethical consumption
Exploring the ‘ethical everyday’
Fair Trade Consumption and the Limits to Solidarity
Contradictions at the confluence of commerce, consumption and conservation; or, an REI shopper camps in the forest, does anyone notice
Meat cultures
Networked political brands
Food Co‐ops and the Paradox of Exclusivity
Ethical consumption? There's an app for that. Digital technologies and everyday consumption practices
Ethical Food Consumption and the City
Everyday Ethics of Consumption in the Austere City
Putting Corporate Responsibility in its Place
Politics in food markets
Beyond exploitation/empowerment
Ethical Foodscapes
Ethical consumption, meaningful substitution and the challenges of vegetarianism advocacy
The Gift that Keeps on Giving
(Product)redtm
"Beyond the "deficit discourse
Buycotting to save the neighbourhood? exploring the altered meaning of social infrastructures of consumption during the Covid-19 crisis in Linden, Hannover, Germany
Ethical Consumerism in Global Perspective
Political Consumerism as a Form of Political Participation
Politics, products, and markets
Ethics of consumption
Thinking Habits into Action
Justice As Impartiality
The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader
Alternative Economic Spaces
Geographies Of Commodity Chains
Consumerism in Twentieth-Century Britain
Political Virtue and Shopping
Retail Restructuring and Consumer Choice 1. Long-Term Local Changes in Consumer Behaviour
Consuming Morality
The Fat of the Land
Will Consumers Save The World? The Framing of Political Consumerism
Fair trade
Geographies of food
Regulating Meaning, Appropriating Nature
The Polanyian Way? Voluntary Food Labels as Neoliberal Governance
Humanising the Cut Flower Chain
Irresistible Empire
Mucky carrots and other proxies
It’s more than just what it is’
Geographies of generosity
Consuming narratives
Consuming Ethics
Citizenship and Civic Engagement
Globalising the consumer
The quality 'turn' and alternative food practices
Governance Innovation and the Citizen
The Poverty of Morality
Between Space and Time
Consumption and Theories of Practice
Should we go "home" to eat
Cleaning up down South
Back to the Land
Could the Internet Defetishise the Commodity
Environmental responsibility and the possibilities of pragmatist-orientated research
The Invisible Mouth
Deprivation, Diet, and Food-Retail Access
(De)commodification, Consumer Culture, and Moral Economy
The Ethical Complex of Corporate Food Power
Commodified Meanings, Meaningful Commodities
Food Matters and the Matter of Food
Possible Food Economies
Fairtrade Urbanism? The Politics of Place Beyond Place in the Bristol Fairtrade City Campaign
Competing Discourses of Sustainable Consumption
Retail Restructuring and Consumer Choice 2. Understanding Consumer Choice at the Household Level
Understanding Alternative Food Networks
The Number is the Beast
Fast food/organic food
Consumer/Producer Links in Fair Trade Coffee Networks
Mobilizing the Consumer
The Political Rationalities of Fair-Trade Consumption in the United Kingdom
Fair Trade
The Elusive Subjects of Neo-Liberalism
Beyond the Boycott
| Unique citing works | 42 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,47 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 41 |