Consumer Culture and Its Futures: Dreams and Consequences

Featherstone, Mike

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“…Whether such criticism is relevant or not depends on how consumption and consumers are understood. Drawing from some of the historical readings of the sociology of consumption (Featherstone, 1990;Gronnow and Warde, 2001;Warde, 2014), it is evident that the consumer has been conceptualised in various ways. Although this article takes a specific theories of practice perspective, it is still relevant to consider how ethical consumption may be defined depending on how the consumer is conceptualised theoretically.…”

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“…Although this article takes a specific theories of practice perspective, it is still relevant to consider how ethical consumption may be defined depending on how the consumer is conceptualised theoretically. In Table 2, with inspiration from Featherstone (1990), Gronnow and Warde (2001) and Warde (2014), the left side lists the understanding of consumers, and the right side suggests the related understanding of ethical consumption.…”

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“…Examples of how consumers have been conceptualised within sociology and suggestions for conceptualising ethical consumption concerning how consumers are understood. Left is developed with inspiration from historical accounts of consumer studies (Featherstone, 1990;Gronnow and Warde, 2001;Warde, 2014); the right is the author's addition. consumption, it is still relevant to remember that distinctions can be important in explaining consumption (Evans, 2019).…”

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“…From this perspective, the consumer communicates through consumption, as also understood in work by Bourdieu (1986). However, the consumer combines products, styles and ideas to create their individual or group-based identity in a creative assemblage of different mass-produced goods, going beyond what commercial markets offer by including a bricolage (Featherstone, 1990).…”

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Conceptualising ethical consumption within theories of practice

Gram‐Hanssen

2021

Journal of Consumer Culture

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Since the turn of the century, sociological consumer research has had a strong focus on ordinary, routinised consumption, especially within the sustainability context. This approach has been a welcome alternative when understanding sustainable consumption compared with relying on individualistic psychological or identity-communicative approaches. However, with the shift towards a practice theoretical approach, there has been a tendency to ignore variation in consumer practices. Specifically, questions regarding the extent to which ethical concern can explain variance have not yet been included. Important questions, such as whether and how ethics takes part in changing practices in more sustainable directions, have similarly been neglected. This theoretically based article intends to contribute to further developing theories of practice by bringing together three discussions: how variation in carrying and performing practices can be conceptualised, how different approaches to consumption have conceptualised ethics and how ethics of care and the concept of general understandings can be used to conceptualise ethical aspects of consumption within theories of practice. The article concludes by summarising the findings from these discussions and raising questions of further empirical and theoretical concern.

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Section: Different Approaches To Ethical Consumption Within Consumer Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Different Approaches To Ethical Consumption Within Consumer Researchmentioning

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Conceptualising ethical consumption within theories of practice

Gram‐Hanssen

2021

Journal of Consumer Culture

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“…This is especially so as we endeavour to face global warming, the Anthropocene and the consequences of our over-consuming society and reach for the modernity reset button (Featherstone, 2018, forthcoming). How do we come to terms with ‘the art of living on a damaged planet’ (Tsing et al., 2017)?…”

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Problematizing the Global: An Introduction to Global Culture Revisited

Featherstone

2020

Theory, Culture & Society

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This paper serves as an introduction to the special section on Global Culture Revisited which commemorates the 30th anniversary of the publication of the 1990 Global Culture special issue. It examines the development of interest in the various strands of globalization and the question of whether there can be a global culture. The paper discusses the emergence of alternative global histories and the problematization of global knowledge. It examines the view that the current Covid-19 pandemic signals a turning point, or change of epoch, that marks the end of peak globalization (Gray, Mignolo). The paper also discusses the view that global was always a limited cartographic term which failed to adequately grasp our terrestrial location on the earth (Latour). Currently, there is considerable speculation about the emergent politics of a new world order, with civilizational states set alongside nation-states, opening up an epoch of greater pluriversality, and at the same time greater uncertainty.

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