Ethical qualities in consumption

Shaw, Deirdre; McMaster, Robert; Longo, Cristina; Özçağlar–Toulouse, Nil

doi:10.1177/1470593117699662

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“…In doing so, our study aligns with an emerging stream of consumer research (see Shaw, McMaster & Newholm, 2016;Shaw, McMaster, Longo & Özçaglar-Toulouse, 2017) that conceptualises moral decisions as issues of care and commitment rather than individual choices based on calculated outcomes. Second, we corroborate a model of consumer morality that moves beyond both psychological and socio-cultural traditions to point instead to how the psychic and the social are mutually constitutive.…”

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A psycho-social approach to consumer ethics

Chatzidakis

Shaw

Allen

2018

Journal of Consumer Culture

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Research into consumer ethics has grown considerably over the last two decades. However most studies adopt either a psychological or a socio-cultural approach and there has been little in the way of bridging the two together. Accordingly, we draw on Kleinian psychoanalysis as a means of advancing an explicitly psycho-social understanding of consumer ethics. Following an emerging tradition that conceptualises moral dilemmas as questions of care, rather than abstract principles of moral and environmental justice, we conceptualise consumer care as a capacity that for its extension across difference and distance is subject to a variety of biographical, inter-subjective and institutional-level processes.Subsequently, we attempt to redress forms of theoretical reductionism noted in both psychological and socio-cultural accounts of everyday morality in consumption. We corroborate a more nuanced, mid-ground conceptualisation that neither precludes nor overstates the possibility of consumer agency whilst also locating agency in inanimate objects. Finally, we offer a methodological contribution by introducing a psychoanalytic (Kleinian) approach to analysing textual and visual data..

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A psycho-social approach to consumer ethics

Chatzidakis

Shaw

Allen

2018

Journal of Consumer Culture

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“…Understanding ‘who cares’ requires an understanding of differing political and sociocultural constructions and interpretations of care. Care in sustainable consumption choices may be subject to conflicting care relations across multiple levels (Shaw et al ., ). Such conflicts have the potential to be transformative and can change the role and significance of specific scales, assert the significance of others and have the potential to generate new scales with an impact on power relations across multiple stakeholders (Swyngedouw, ).…”

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“…Some work has started to explore the potential of care in guiding a more sustained shift in consumption that will address individual, community and environmental needs (e.g. Shaw, McMaster and Newhom, 2016;Shaw et al, 2017;Sheth, Sethia and Srinivas, 2011). Such a shift has transformative potential across the multiple identities…”

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“…Understanding 'who cares' requires an understanding of differing political and sociocultural constructions and interpretations of care. Care in sustainable consumption choices may be subject to conflicting care relations across multiple levels (Shaw et al, 2017). Such conflicts have the potential to be transformative and can change the role and 300 A.…”

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Sustainability: Issues of Scale, Care and Consumption

Chatzidakis

Shaw

2018

British J of Management

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This paper investigates how consumers interested in sustainability are affected by conflicts in caring and scale. Contrasting previous emphasis relating scale to production, the paper illustrates how scale influences consumption and social reproduction, including consumers’ more concrete preoccupations with caring about and for themselves, significant others and, not least, the planet. The paper makes three contributions to the nascent management literature in this field. First, it illustrates how scalar logics at urban through to global levels influence seemingly micro‐social routine consumption decisions. Second, it develops an approach that emphasizes the scale‐sensitivity of consumer decision‐making around sustainability and the conflicts inherent in caring. Third, it addresses critiques of current studies preoccupied with processes of production rather than social reproduction and illustrates the critical role that consumption plays in the social construction of scales. Based on these findings, we argue that policy promoting sustainability may be misplaced in that it does not sufficiently acknowledge how people's consumption and caring decisions are nested in relational and spatial contexts.

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“…These findings also imply that encouraging the reduction of car use or promoting public transportation may not yield the desired results as sustainable options may conflict with socially contextualised symbolic meanings appropriated to the individual, the home, and the larger urban and national society (Chatzidakis & Shaw, 2018;Shaw, McMaster, Longo, & Özçaglar-Toulouse, 2017). It is challenging to encourage people to adopt new commuting behaviours even with improved facilities as it is habitual, repeated, and with little or no conscious consideration of alternatives (Clark, Chatterjee, & Melia, 2016;Gardner, 2009).…”

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A theories of practice perspective in understanding barriers to sustainable commuting: The case of United Arab Emirates

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J of Philanthropy and Mktg

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A critical step to mitigate climate change is to reduce automobile pollution emissions. The transportation sector produces 23% of world energy‐related CO2 emissions with three quarters of the emissions coming from road transport, specifically passenger cars and light‐duty trucks. The daily commute constitutes a significant portion of the traffic demand in cities, as people's use of private cars remains an integral part of daily life. Using theories of practice, this paper investigates the range of elements (meanings, competencies, and materials) that collectively shapes the practice of daily commuting. Adopting a qualitative approach, the research comprises 21 interviews with United Arab Emirates residents. Our findings reveal two major insights: (a) “meanings” play a more dominant role in shaping the practice of daily commuting; thus, competencies and materials are integrated in a way that addresses these meanings, and (b) practices are simultaneously interconnected with other practices and often compete for the finite resources of consumers. The paper provides insights to the barriers to sustainable commuting practices and outlines significant opportunities for intervention.

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Ethical qualities in consumption

Cited by 35 publications

References 65 publications

A psycho-social approach to consumer ethics

A psycho-social approach to consumer ethics

Sustainability: Issues of Scale, Care and Consumption

A theories of practice perspective in understanding barriers to sustainable commuting: The case of United Arab Emirates

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