Ethical Consumption

James G. Carrier is a Hon. Research Associate at Oxford Brookes University and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Indiana. He has taught anthropology and sociology, and carried out research, in Papua New Guinea, the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as studying environmental conservation in Jamaica. His publications include Gifts and Commodities (Routledge 1995), Meanings of the Market (ed., Berg 1997) and Virtualism, Governance and Practice (co-ed. with West, Berghahn 2009).

“This edited volume brilliantly shows that ethical consumption is a process of socializing (and fetishizing) goods on the consumption side, as well as a process of economizing social values on the production side.”  ·  Sociologus“All of the case studies [presented] here are remarkable in terms of their analysis and ethnographic richness, providing a wonderfully nuanced picture of ethical consumption.”  ·  American Ethnologist“This is a great volume that…brings together a very good set of chapters that consider ethical consumption in a broad and therefore most stimulating manner. Rooted in an ethnographic approach and located within an anthropological line of thought, this volume will nevertheless have wide appeal beyond this discipline, and will no doubt be of great interest to cultural and media studies scholars, geographers, development studies and other related disciplines.”  ·  Geert de Neve, University of Sussex“This volume is a most timely contribution to a rapidly expanding literature in the social sciences. The editors are to be commended for assembling an interesting, well-written collection of essays.”  ·  Mark Moberg, University of South Alabama

• List of figuresPrefaceIntroductionJames G. CarrierSection I: Producers and ConsumersSection IntroductionChapter 1. Good chocolate? An examination of ethical consumption in cocoaAmanda BerlanChapter 2. Consuming producers: fair trade and small farmersPeter G. LuetchfordChapter 3. ‘Trade, not aid’: imagining ethical economyLill VramoChapter 4. ‘Today, one can farm organic without living organic’: Belgian farmers and recent changes in organic farmingAudrey VankeerberghenSection II: Ethical Consumption ContextsSection IntroductionChapter 5. Narratives of concern: beyond the ‘official’ discourse of ethical consumption in HungaryTamás DombosChapter 6. Critical consumption in Palermo: imagined society, class and fractured localityGiovanni OrlandoChapter 7. On the challenges of signalling ethics without the stuff: tales of conspicuous green anti-consumptionCindy IsenhourChapter 8. Ethical consumption as religious testimony: The Quaker casePeter CollinsChapter 9. Re-inventing food: the ethics of developing local foodCristina GrasseniConclusionJames G. Carrier and Richard WilkAbout the contributorsBibliographyIndex