Coffee Activism Politics of Fair Trade Ethical Consumption in Global - Political Consumerism and Cultural Citizenship

Informationen zum Autor Eleftheria Lekakis is Lecturer in Global Communications in the School of Media, Film and Music at the University of Sussex, UK. Klappentext This book explores the politics borne of consumption through the case of coffee activism and ethical consumption. It analyses the agencies, structures, repertoires and technologies of promotion and participation in the politics of fair trade consumption through an exploration of the relationship between activism and consumption. To come Zusammenfassung This book explores the politics borne of consumption through the case of coffee activism and ethical consumption. It analyses the agencies! structures! repertoires and technologies of promotion and participation in the politics of fair trade consumption through an exploration of the relationship between activism and consumption. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Understanding Coffee Activism, Ethical Consumption and Political Consumerism 2. A History of Mainstreaming the Fair Trade Market and Movement 3. Politics in the Marketopoly: Cultural Citizenship and Political Consumerism 4. In Politics I Trust: Individualisation and the Politics and Pleasures of the Self 5. A Liquid Politics: Structures and Narratives of Participation in Digital Coffee Activism 6. Digital Media, Space and Politics: Cosmopolitan Citizenship in Coffee Activism 7. A Politics in the Pocket?

List of contents

1. Understanding Coffee Activism, Ethical Consumption and Political Consumerism 2. A History of Mainstreaming the Fair Trade Market and Movement 3. Politics in the Marketopoly: Cultural Citizenship and Political Consumerism 4. In Politics I Trust: Individualisation and the Politics and Pleasures of the Self 5. A Liquid Politics: Structures and Narratives of Participation in Digital Coffee Activism 6. Digital Media, Space and Politics: Cosmopolitan Citizenship in Coffee Activism 7. A Politics in the Pocket?

Product details

• Authors: E. Lekakis, Eleftheria Lekakis, Eleftheria J Lekakis, Eleftheria J. Lekakis
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.08.2013
• EAN: 9781137282682
• ISBN: 978-1-137-28268-2
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Consumption and Public Life; Consumption and Public Life
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science; B, Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte, Culture, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture, Human Rights, Political Science, Political Sociology, Politics & government, auseinandersetzen, Sociology, general, Human rights, civil rights, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social groups: religious groups & communities, Citizenship;participation;politics;Promotion;trust