Interrogating Amazon’s Sustainability Innovation

Caraway, Brett

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-49384-4_6

Cited by 4 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 7 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Amazon is seen as a trailblazer in the implementation of AI technology, but despite this it has done little to prevent it from being one of the world's largest consumers of energy (Caraway, 2020). In actuality, AI is accelerating natural resource extraction and the distancing of waste that harms 'marginalised communities, fragile ecosystems, and future generations' (Dauvergne, 2020: 696).…”

Section: Amazon's Environmental Impact and Socially Corrosive Harmsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Smile for the camera”: Online warehouse tours as a form of dark tourism within the era of late capitalism

Lynes

Wragg

2023

Tourism and Hospitality Research

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Over the past 50 years dark tourism has also seen exponential growth in terms of both physical and digital contexts. Dark tourism is primarily a concentration around documented accounts of physical violence, and theorisations centred on dark tourism studies have generally fallen within either behavioural or interpretivist perspectives. Such perspectives are indicative of the continually evolving nature of dark tourism and its receptiveness to new definitions, conceptual frameworks, and theorisations. Taking this into consideration, this concept paper seeks to develop and broaden the notion of “dark tourism” within the era of late capitalism by presenting a content analysis of Amazon’s virtual warehouse tour. In drawing upon critical notions of violence and the emerging deviant leisure framework, this paper will aim to instigate fresh academic enquiry into the nature of dark tourism, expand its theoretical underpinnings, and subsequently provide a means in which to examine how banal forms of tourism play an integral part in the proliferation of some of the most serious harms that populate the contemporary neoliberal landscape. Within this fresh interpretation of dark tourism, this paper also examines the relationship between the Internet, technology and late-stage capitalism, and the implications that this has in studying how corporations use such forms of media in tourism production in order to downplay and obfuscate the realities behind their activities.

show abstract

Section: Amazon's Environmental Impact and Socially Corrosive Harmsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Smile for the camera”: Online warehouse tours as a form of dark tourism within the era of late capitalism

Lynes

Wragg

2023

Tourism and Hospitality Research

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

The Political Ecology of Bolivia’s State-Led Lithium Industrialization for Post-Carbon Futures

Bouchi

Caraway

2023

Capitalism Nature Socialism

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The Geo-Ecological Turn in Sociology and its Implications for the Sociology of the Arts

Holt

2022

Cultural Sociology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Accelerating climate change has set in motion a broad change in beliefs about human life that is affecting the social sciences and humanities (SSH). A deeper understanding of the social causes and consequences of climate change is evolving in sociology, yet some of the discipline’s subfields have not responded to climate change. Is this because climate change is perceived to be irrelevant or are scholars suppressing new beliefs that could disrupt the norms of their field? The sociology of the arts provides an illustrative case. This subfield has historically ignored environmental factors, but there is mounting pressure for correcting this oversight and rethinking the beliefs and norms of the field. This article argues that climate change is relevant to the sociology of the arts and that this subfield can become more aligned with the geo-ecological turn in sociology and the SSH. This turn is part of a wider epochal and existential transformation in public consciousness in response to broad changes in society and nature. Changing beliefs about the arts are therefore not explained by endogenous dynamics in the arts field. The article provides a meta-analysis of the geo-ecological turn in sociology and in interdisciplinary arts and cultural research where pioneering arguments have emerged. The analysis uses theory of disciplinary transformation in the sociology of science to analyze largely implicit sociological claims for a transformation of ‘normal science’ beliefs about (1) aesthetic exceptionalism, illustrated by a new conception of music as a study object, and (2) the role of the arts in economic growth. Some implications for the sociology of the arts are considered.

show abstract

Interrogating Amazon’s Sustainability Innovation

Cited by 4 publications

References 7 publications

“Smile for the camera”: Online warehouse tours as a form of dark tourism within the era of late capitalism

“Smile for the camera”: Online warehouse tours as a form of dark tourism within the era of late capitalism

The Political Ecology of Bolivia’s State-Led Lithium Industrialization for Post-Carbon Futures

The Geo-Ecological Turn in Sociology and its Implications for the Sociology of the Arts

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About