Ethical consumerism is on the rise. No longer bound to the counter-cultural fringes, ethical concerns and practices are reaching into the mainstream of society and being adopted by everyday consumers - from considering carbon miles to purchasing free-range eggs to making renewable energy choices. The wide reach and magnitude of ethical issues in society across individual and collective consumption has given rise to a series of important questions that are inspiring scholars from a range of disciplinary areas. These differing disciplinary lenses, however, tend to be contained in separate streams of research literature that are developing in parallel and in relative isolation.
Ethics in Morality and Consumption takes an interdisciplinary perspective to provide multiple vantage points in creating a more holistic and integrated view of ethics in consumption. In this sense, interdisciplinary presupposes the consideration of multiple and distinct disciplines, which in this book are considered in delineated chapters. In addition, the Editors make an editorial contribution in the final chapter of the book by combining these separate disciplinary perspectives to develop a nascent interdisciplinary perspective that integrates these perspectives and presents platforms for further research.
Foreword
Rob Harrison
Foreword
Tim Lang
Introduction
Michal Carrington, Deirdre Shaw and Andreas Chatzidakis
1. Towards a Sustainable Flourishing: Ethical Consumption and the Politics of Prosperity
Kate Soper
2. Religion and Ethical Consumption: Supramorality and Space
Karen Wenell
3. The Economics of Ethical Consumption
Martha A. Starr
4. Morality and Green Consumer Behaviour: A Psychological Perspective
Judith I. M. de Groot, Iljana Schubert and John Thøgersen
5. The Challenges of Responsible Marketing and Consumption
Marylyn Carrigan and Carmela Bosangit
6. Consumption Ethics in History
Terry Newholm and Sandy Newholm
7. Putting Ethical Consumption in its Place: Geographical Perspectives
Dorothea Kleine
8. Buying a Better World: Ethical Consumption and the Critical Social Sciences
Kim Humphrey
9. Market, Society and Morality: Towards an Anthropology of Ethical Consumption
Peter Leutchford
10. Political Consumption: Ethics, Participation and Civic Engagement
Lauren Copeland and Lucy Atkinson
11. Built Environment and Human Behaviour Challenges to Sustainable Consumption: A Gap Analysis
Peter W. Newton and Denny Meyer
12. Are We Walking Our Own Talk? Building Capacity for Ethical Consumption through Education for Sustainability
Kathryn Hegarty
13. Cultural Studies and Consumer Culture
Jo Littler
Conclusion
Andreas Chatzidakis, Michal Carrington and Deirdre Shaw
