
Anna-Lisa Linden
Professor emerita

Food and Green Consumption. Poclicy instruments and consumer power.
Författare
Summary, in English
Consumers, the end users, are often addressed by informational instruments, e.g. pamphlets, campaigns, content declarations or labelling. However, consumers reliance in food products can vary for several reasons. They can dislike the price, the quality, the labelling process and organisation and the food products for ethical reasons. Consumer power can be activated for some or several of these reasons. Two types of consumer power will be discussed and analysed namely the social power of consumers, e.g. buying resistance, which can be unorganised as well as organised and secondly the political power of consumers, relying on an ideology, which can be ethical, e.g. animals rights movements. Consumer power and influence strategies will be analysed concerning reliance in products, information, labelling, shopping routines and exercised consumer power. Statistical data bases, research results and interviews with everyday consumers, vegans and vegetarians will be used in the empirical analysis.
Avdelning/ar
- Sociologi
Publiceringsår
2004
Språk
Engelska
Dokumenttyp
Konferensbidrag
Ämne
- Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Nyckelord
- environmental awareness
- food consumption
- consumer power
- vegetarians
- vegans
- sociology
- sociologi
Conference name
International Seminar on Political Consumerism
Conference date
2004-08-26 - 2004-08-29
Conference place
Oslo, Norway
Aktiv
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- Sustainability and Development Studies