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). Peter G. Luetchford is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sussex and has carried out field research in Costa Rica and Spain. He has published on ethics and the economy, including Fair Trade and a Global Commodity: Coffee in Costa Rica (Pluto Press, 2008) and he is co-editor of Hidden Hands in the Market: Ethnographies of Fair Trade, Ethical Consumption and Corporate Social Responsibility (Research in Economic Anthropology 2008).

"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 figures Preface Introduction James G. Carrier Section I: Producers and Consumers Section Introduction Chapter 1. Good chocolate? An examination of ethical consumption in cocoa Amanda Berlan Chapter 2. Consuming producers: fair trade and small farmers Peter G. Luetchford Chapter 3. 'Trade, not aid': imagining ethical economy Lill Vramo Chapter 4. 'Today, one can farm organic without living organic': Belgian farmers and recent changes in organic farming Audrey Vankeerberghen Section II: Ethical Consumption Contexts Section Introduction Chapter 5. Narratives of concern: beyond the 'official' discourse of ethical consumption in Hungary Tamas Dombos Chapter 6. Critical consumption in Palermo: imagined society, class and fractured locality Giovanni Orlando Chapter 7. On the challenges of signalling ethics without the stuff: tales of conspicuous green anti-consumption Cindy Isenhour Chapter 8. Ethical consumption as religious testimony: The Quaker case Peter Collins Chapter 9. Re-inventing food: the ethics of developing local food Cristina Grasseni Conclusion James G. Carrier and Richard Wilk About the contributors Bibliography Index