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> We are pleased to announce the publication of 'Ethical Consumption: A Critical Introduction' a volume of critical essays on ethical consumerism by leading international scholars examining case studies from across the globe. This book from Routledge makes a major contribution to the still fledgling field of ethical consumption studies and is a must-read for anyone interested in the relationship between consumer culture and contemporary social life.
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> Click on the link below to purchase your copy.
> Avail of a 20% discount on the book till 2 October by putting in the code discount code ECO11 at the checkout.
> If you a qualified lecturer in the field, you may also request for a complimentary exam copy.
> http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415558259/
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> Book Description:
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> 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’. And this is happening not at the margins of society but at its heart, in the shopping centres and homes of ordinary people. 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’.
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> 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. 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.
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> Tania Lewis is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Media and Communications at RMIT University, Melbourne. She is the author of Smart Living: Lifestyle Media and Popular Expertise(Peter Lang, 2008) and editor of TV Transformations: Revealing the Makeover Show(Routledge, 2008). She is currently conducting research on sustainable lifestyles and green citizenship, and is a chief investigator on an Australian Research Council-funded project (2010-2013) examining the role of lifestyle advice television in shaping social identity and consumer-citizenship in Asia.
> Emily Potter is a Research Fellow in the School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University. She is co-editor of Fresh Water: New perspectives on water in Australia (Melbourne University Press, 2007), and has published widely on questions of culture and the environment.
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> Table of contents:
> Preface Mike Featherstone
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> Part 1: Introduction
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> 1. Introducing Ethical Consumption Tania Lewis and Emily Potter
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> Part 2: Politics
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> 2. What's Wrong with Ethical Consumption? Jo Littler
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> 3. The Simple and the Good: Ethical Consumption as Anti-Consumerism Kim Humphery
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> 4. Fair Trade in Cyberspace: The Commodification of Poverty and the Tim Scrase
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> Marketing of Crafts on the Internet
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> 5. Neo-liberalism, the 'Obesity Epidemic' and the Challenge to Theory Michael Gard
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> Part 3: Commodities and Materiality
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> 6. Placing Alternative Consumption: Commodity Fetishism Benjamin Coles and Philip Crang
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> in Borough Fine Foods Market, London
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> 7. Feeding the World: Towards a Messy Ethics of Eating Elspeth Probyn
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> 8. Drinking to Live: The Work of Ethically-Branded Bottled Water Emily Potter
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> 9. Ethical Consumption, Sustainable Production, and Wine Paul Starr
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> 10. Eco-ethical Electronic Consumption in
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> the 'Smart-design' Economy Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller
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> 11. The Ethics of Second Hand Consumption Adrian Franklin
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> 12. Is Green the New Black?
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> Exploring Ethical Fashion Consumption Chris Gibson and Elyse Stanes
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> Part 4: Practices, Sites and Representatives
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> 13. Slow Living and the Temporalities of Sustainable Consumption Wendy Parkins and Geoff Craig
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> 14. Ethical Consumption Begins at Home:
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> Green Renovations, Eco-Homes and Sustainable Home Improvement Fiona Allon
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> 15. Cultivating Citizen-subjects Through Collective Praxis:
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> Organized Gardening Projects in Australia and Philippines Kersty Hobson and Ann Hill
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> 16. Lifestyle Television: Gardening and the Good Life Frances Bonner
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> 17. 'Caring at a Distance': The Ambiguity and Negotiations
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> of Ethical Investment Cathy Greenfield and Peter Williams
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> 18. The Moral Terrains of Ecotourism and
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> the Ethics of Consumption Robert Mechior Figuera and Gordon Waitt
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> With regards,
> Wokar T. Rigumi
> Research Assistant
> Dr. Tania Lewis
> Vice Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow
> School of Media & Communication
> RMIT University
> Building 36.3.3 City Campus
> GPO Box 2476, Melbourne VIC 3001
> Australia
