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Globalizing Responsibility : The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption.
Title:
Globalizing Responsibility : The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption.
Author:
Barnett, Clive.
ISBN:
9781444390223
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (247 pages)
Contents:
Globalizing Responsibility -- Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Politicizing Consumption in an Unequal World -- 1.1 The Moralization of Consumption -- 1.2 Justice, Responsibility and the Politics of Consumption -- 1.3 Relocating Agency in Ethical Consumption -- 1.4 Problematizing Consumption -- Part One Theorizing Consumption Differently -- 2 The Ethical Problematization of 'The Consumer' -- 2.1 Teleologies of Consumerism and Individualization -- 2.2 Theorizing Consumers as Political Subjects -- 2.3 The Responsibilization of the Consumer -- 2.4 What Type of Subject Is 'The Consumer'? -- 2.5 Does Governing Consumption Involve Governing the Consumer? -- 2.6 The Ethical Problematization of the Consumer -- 2.7 Conclusion -- 3 Practising Consumption -- 3.1 The Antinomies of Consumer Choice -- 3.2 Theorizing Consumption Practices -- 3.3 Problematizing Choice -- 3.4 Articulating Background -- 3.5 Conclusion -- 4 Problematizing Consumption -- 4.1 Consumer Choice and Citizenly Acts -- 4.2 Articulating Consumption and the Consumer -- 4.3 Mobilizing the Ethical Consumer -- 4.4 Articulating the Ethical Consumer -- 4.5 Conclusion -- Part Two Doing Consumption Differently -- 5 Grammars of Responsibility -- 5.1 Justifying Practices -- 5.2 Researching the (Ir)responsible Consumer -- 5.3 Versions of Responsibility -- 5.4 Dilemmas of Responsibility -- 5.5 Conclusion -- 6 Local Networks of Global Feeling -- 6.1 Locating the Fair Trade Consumer -- 6.2 Re-evaluating Fair Trade Consumption -- 6.3 Managing Fair Trade, Mobilizing Networks -- 6.4 Doing Fair Trade: Buying, Giving, Campaigning -- 6.5 Conclusion -- 7 Fairtrade Urbanism -- 7.1 Rethinking the Spatialities of Fair Trade -- 7.2 Re-imagining Bristol: From Slave Trade to Fair Trade -- 7.3 Putting Fair Trade in Place.

7.4 Fair Trade and 'The Politics of Place Beyond Place' -- 7.5 Conclusion -- 8 Conclusion: Doing Politics in an Ethical Register -- 8.1 Beyond the Consumer -- 8.2 Doing Responsibility -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
"Based on original research and innovative thinking, this profound and insightful book challenges conventional thinking about 'ethical consumption.' Approaching the subject as a distinctive form of political mobilisation, Globalizing Responsibility shows how our everyday consumption practices are related to wider narratives of social justice and collective responsibility." -Peter Jackson, University of Sheffield "By viewing ethical consumption patterns as a political phenomenon, the authors deliver a far deeper understanding of this growing movement than a whole raft of marketing and business literature which has gone before." -Rob Harrison, Ethical Consumer Magazine.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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