Ethical Consumption: Practices and Identities

A Realist Approach

AvYana Manyukhina

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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This book engages with the topic of ethical consumption and applies a critical-realist approach to explore the process of becoming and being an ethical consumer. By integrating Margaret Archer’s theory of identity formation and Christian Coff’s work on food ethics, it develops a theoretical account explicating the generative mechanism that gives rise to ethical consumer practices and identities. The second part of the book presents the findings from a qualitative study with self-perceived ethical food consumers to demonstrate the fit between the proposed theoretical mechanism and the actual experiences of ethically committed consumers. Through integrating agency-focused and socio-centric perspectives on consumer behaviour, the book develops a more comprehensive and balanced approach to conceptualising and studying consumption processes and phenomena.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-05-23
Mått:156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt:453 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
Antal sidor:184
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781138895539

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Yana Manyukhina gained her PhD in Sociology and Social Policy in 2016 from the University of Leeds, UK.

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"Yana Manyukhina's beautifully clear book will be of value to all concerned with the politics of food and consumerism. It analyses not only how people develop as ethical food consumers but also, perhaps more crucially, why they make the life-style changes that are so urgently needed to promote sustainable ways of living."Priscilla Alderson, Professor Emerita, University College London

Innehållsförteckning

ForewordPreface Introduction Part I Theorising the Ethical Consumer1. Analysing Consumption: Toward an Integrated Approach2. Ethical Consumption and Critical Realism3. Ethical Consumption as a Reflexive Life ProjectPart II Studying the Ethical Consumer4. Studying Consumption: A Realist Approach5. Meeting the Ethical Consumers6. Becoming an Ethical Consumer: Moral Concerns, Emotional Commentaries, and Reflexive Deliberations7. Being an Ethical Consumer: Exercising Moral Agency in the Contexts of Objective Reality8. The Inner Self in the Outer World: The Social Life of an Ethical ConsumerConclusionIndex