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1 online resource (viii, 238 pages) |
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data file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Section I: Producers and Consumers; Chapter 1: Good Chocolate? An Examination of Ethical Consumption in Cocoa; Chapter 2: Consuming Producers: Fair Trade and Small Farmers; Chapter 3: 'Trade, not aid': Imagining Ethical Economy; Chapter 4: 'Today, one can farm organic without living organic': Belgian Farmers and Recent Changes in Organic Farming; Section II: Ethical Consumption Contexts; Chapter 5; Narratives of Concern: Beyond the 'Official' Discourse of Ethical Consumption in Hungary. |
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Chapter 6: Critical Consumption in Palermo: Imagined Society, Class and Fractured LocalityChapter 7: On the Challenges of Signalling Ethics without the Stuff: Tales of Conspicuous Green Anti-consumption; Chapter 8: Ethical Consumption as Religious Testimony: The Quaker Case; Chapter 9: Re-inventing Food: The Ethics of Developing Local Food; Conclusion; Notes on Contributors; Index. |
| Summary |
Increasingly, consumers in North America and Europe see their purchasing as a way to express to the commercial world their concerns about trade justice, the environment and similar issues. This ethical consumption has attracted growing attention in the press and among academics. Extending beyond the growing body of scholarly work on the topic in several ways, this volume focuses primarily on consumers rather than producers and commodity chains. It presents cases from a variety of European countries and is concerned with a wide range of objects and types of ethical consumption, not simply the u. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Consumption (Economics) -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Consumption (Economics) -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Social values.
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Social values. |
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Social ethics.
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Social ethics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Carrier, James G., editor.
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Luetchford, Peter, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ethical consumption. New York : Berghahn Books, 2012 9780857453426 (DLC) 2011039295 (OCoLC)754105758 |
| ISBN |
9780857453433 (electronic book) |
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0857453432 (electronic book) |
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0857453424 |
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9780857453426 |
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9781782386766 |
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1782386769 |
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1280496754 |
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9781280496752 |
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9786613591982 |
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661359198X |
| Standard No. |
9786613591982 |
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