From the Street to the Shops: The Rise of New Forms of Political Actions in Italy1

Forno, Francesca; Ceccarini, Luigi

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“…Survey data, for example, shows very important cross-country differences for boycott and buycott participation (Ferrer-Fons, 2004;Forno & Ceccarini, 2006). This points to the importance of national contexts and specifically the activity of consumer campaigns and their success in mobilizing a broad public (Clarke et al, 2007a(Clarke et al, , 2007bMicheletti & Stolle, 2007).…”

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Making Political Consumers: The Tactical Action Repertoire of a Campaign for Clean Clothes

Balsiger

2010

Social Movement Studies

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Several recent studies have shown an increase in political consumerism (boycott and buycott) and a tendency towards a new 'politics in the supermarket'. These developments are usually seen as a transformation of forms of political action towards more individualized participation forms. Little attention has focused on the role of social movement activity in this transformation. In this contribution, which is based on a case study of political consumerism in the clothing sector in Switzerland, I fill this gap by analysing the ways in which political agency and mobilization shape political consumerism. I suggest taking into account the role of campaigningthat is, intentional and coordinated collective action and framing activities -as an incentive, if not a determinant, of individual political consumption. I show how different contentious performances mobilize citizens and consumers and make the consumption and production of clothing a public and political issue. I analyse the mobilizing strategies of a campaign regarding action repertoires and framing activities and ask how they contribute to provide political content to consumer products, creating a venue for political participation in the marketplace.

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Making Political Consumers: The Tactical Action Repertoire of a Campaign for Clean Clothes

Balsiger

2010

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“…This change of paradigm often tends to transform the radical demand for social change in forms of alternative consumption and to blur more radical and political approaches, that involve(d) forms of popular collective actions aimed at proposing alternative ideas of the future and societies. The insistence on individual choices, or at least on critical consumption activity, is nowadays often considered the best tactic for advocacy, thus shifting the action "from the streets to the shops" (Forno and Ceccarini 2006).…”

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Veganism: Lifestyle or Political Movement? Looking for Relations Beyond Antispeciesism

Bertuzzi¹

2017

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“…Using survey data, this varied literature has argued that the use of boycotts and buycotts by individual consumers has experienced a dramatic increase in the past 20 years, albeit with important country differences (Forno and Ceccarini, 2006;Stolle et al, 2005). Qualitative studies have looked at the rationales and motivations of individual consumers to consume critically (Johnston et al, 2011;Johnston and Baumann, 2009;Miller, 2001;Shaw et al, 2006;Shaw and Newholm, 2002).…”

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“…Many scholars have pointed at the recent rise of ethical consumption (Forno and Ceccarini, 2006;Micheletti, 2003;Stolle et al, 2005), and some have highlighted the role of social movements in its promotion (Balsiger, 2010;Sassatelli, 2006). It is this collective aspect of ethical consumption that is at the center of this article: organizations and campaigns pursuing the goal of making consumption and production more ethical by attaching political concerns such as environmental protection or social justice to consumption and production Dubuisson-Quellier, 2013a;Malpass et al, 2007).…”

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“…Journal of Consumer Culture 14 (2) analysis, studies often point to the role of collective actors inciting consumers to become ethical consumers (Forno and Ceccarini, 2006;Shaw and Newholm, 2002). In this perspective, consumption is seen as a practice that is socially shaped in multiple ways (Balsiger, 2010;Dubuisson-Quellier, 2013a;Sassatelli, 2006;Sassatelli and Davolio, 2010).…”

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Between shaming corporations and promoting alternatives: The politics of an “ethical shopping map”

Balsiger

2014

Journal of Consumer Culture

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Ethical consumption can take different forms, some more contentious like boycotts or public campaigns, some aiming at the establishment or promotion of alternative consumption practices (buycotts). This study looks at how these tactics are articulated by analyzing the development of an ''ethical shopping map,'' an action situated in the latter category of ''supportive'' actions. In 2007, a Swiss nongovernmental organization published this map as part of its ongoing campaign fighting for the respect of social standards in the global garment industry. A project pursued by a regional group of volunteers of the organization, the map listed stores where ethical clothes can be purchased in a big Swiss city. This article consists of an ethnographic analysis of the process of elaboration of the map and discusses its inclusion into the tactical repertoire of the antisweatshop campaign. Based on participant observation and interviews with volunteers and campaign staff, it examines what drives the activists' concern with alternative forms of consumption. It looks at the rationales and meanings the volunteers put behind the map and the different uses of the map that are suggested, and examines the ultimate ''failure'' of making it a lasting part of the campaign's tactical action repertoire. Doing so, the article reveals the inherent tension of ''ethical consumption,'' between supportive action forms based on buycotts and denunciatory actions of public shaming of firms whose practices are criticized.

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From the Street to the Shops: The Rise of New Forms of Political Actions in Italy1

Cited by 65 publications

References 6 publications

Making Political Consumers: The Tactical Action Repertoire of a Campaign for Clean Clothes

Making Political Consumers: The Tactical Action Repertoire of a Campaign for Clean Clothes

Veganism: Lifestyle or Political Movement? Looking for Relations Beyond Antispeciesism

Between shaming corporations and promoting alternatives: The politics of an “ethical shopping map”

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