Anti-Consumption: Exploring the Opposition to Consumer Culture (Routledge Studies in Critical Marketing)

Synopsis

In this edited volume, the leading scholars in the field engage with consumers, marketers, corporations and policymakers as well as space dynamics and network formation to provide an in-depth examination of anti-consumption: a voluntary behavioural inclination to minimise rather than grow, to decelerate and simplify and to reduce the unnecessary exploitation of resources fuelled by consumer culture. This book does not place anti-consumption on the high moral ground but rather demonstrates its complexity to spur innovative and critical thinking on how people, organisations, businesses and governments can treat consumption more as a necessity for survival than as a tool for self-expression, pleasure and economic growth. The first part of this book looks at anti-consumption from a diversity of perspectives. It analyses voluntary simplicity, a self-motivated engagement in consumption reduction, and boycotting, a politically-motivated reaction against unacceptable corporate practices, as distinct manifestations of anti-consumption that nonetheless remain rooted in the logic of the market. Paving the way to critical perspectives on the interface between anti-consumption, people and the environment, the second part of the book projects anti-consumption to issues of waste production and provides possible answers to global challenges of resources depletion, social inequalities and global warming. In this section, anti-consumption is critically assessed as an actor of change, both in terms of social change and paradigm change. To move the field forward, the third part of this book presents several theoretical frameworks that help set a roadmap for future research. Anti-Consumption will be of direct interest to scholars and researchers within the fields of marketing, consumer research, business studies, environmental studies and sustainability. It will also be of value to those researching the economics and/or sociology of markets.

Copyright:

2023

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

242 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000648324

Related ISBNs:

9781032331904, 9780367821586, 9780367420758

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

08/31/22

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Hélène Cherrier and Michael S W Lee

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Self-Help, Business and Finance, Earth Sciences, Sociology

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Hélène Cherrier

Edited by:

Michael S Lee