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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.
List of contents
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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
Tamás 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
About the author
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 Senior 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).
