Ethical Consumption

Practices and Identities: A Realist Approach

Yana Manyukhina

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English

Routledge
23 May 2018

Consumerism; Waste management

Series: Routledge Studies in Critical Realism

This book engages with the topic of ethical consumption and applies a critical-realist approach to explore the process of becoming and being an ethical consumer. By integrating Margaret Archer’s theory of identity formation and Christian Coff’s work on food ethics, it develops a theoretical account explicating the generative mechanism that gives rise to ethical consumer practices and identities. The second part of the book presents the findings from a qualitative study with self-perceived ethical food consumers to demonstrate the fit between the proposed theoretical mechanism and the actual experiences of ethically committed consumers. Through integrating agency-focused and socio-centric perspectives on consumer behaviour, the book develops a more comprehensive and balanced approach to conceptualising and studying consumption processes and phenomena.

By: Yana Manyukhina
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138895539
ISBN 10: 1138895539
Series: Routledge Studies in Critical Realism
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 23 May 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword Preface Introduction Part I Theorising the Ethical Consumer 1. Analysing Consumption: Toward an Integrated Approach 2. Ethical Consumption and Critical Realism 3. Ethical Consumption as a Reflexive Life Project Part II Studying the Ethical Consumer 4. Studying Consumption: A Realist Approach 5. Meeting the Ethical Consumers 6. Becoming an Ethical Consumer: Moral Concerns, Emotional Commentaries, and Reflexive Deliberations 7. Being an Ethical Consumer: Exercising Moral Agency in the Contexts of Objective Reality 8. The Inner Self in the Outer World: The Social Life of an Ethical Consumer Conclusion Index

Yana Manyukhina gained her PhD in Sociology and Social Policy in 2016 from the University of Leeds, UK.

Reviews for Ethical Consumption: Practices and Identities: A Realist Approach

Yana Manyukhina's beautifully clear book will be of value to all concerned with the politics of food and consumerism. It analyses not only how people develop as ethical food consumers but also, perhaps more crucially, why they make the life-style changes that are so urgently needed to promote sustainable ways of living. Priscilla Alderson, Professor Emerita, University College London