Globalizing Responsibility: The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption
Copyright © 2011 Clive Barnett, Paul Cloke, Nick Clarke and Alice Malpass

Author(s): Clive Barnett, Paul Cloke, Nick Clarke, Alice Malpass
Published Online: 13 JAN 2011 04:51AM EST
Print ISBN: 9781405145589
Online ISBN: 9781444390216
DOI: 10.1002/9781444390216
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Globalizing Responsibility: The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption presents an innovative reinterpretation of the forces that have shaped the remarkable growth of ethical consumption.
- Develops a theoretically informed new approach to shape our understanding of the pragmatic nature of ethical action in consumption processes
- Provides empirical research on everyday consumers, social networks, and campaigns
- Fills a gap in research on the topic with its distinctive focus on fair trade consumption
- Locates ethical consumption within a range of social theoretical debates -on neoliberalism, governmentality, and globalisation
- Challenges the moralism of much of the analysis of ethical consumption, which sees it as a retreat from proper citizenly politics and an expression of individualised consumerism
