Mikael Klintman
Professor
Mass Consumption and Political Consumerism
Författare
Summary, in English
This chapter focuses on the relation between mass consumption and political consumerism. Mass consumption concerns the omnipresent role of consumption in contemporary societies with associated problems of excessive resource use in current practices of consumption. The late modern context and forces of mass consumption can both trigger and prevent political consumerism as well as shape its outcome. The chapter offers a literature review that addresses both examples of alternative consumption (e.g., buycotts) and various kinds of anticonsumption, which involve politically motivated ambitions to cut down on consumption. The chapter addresses how mass consumption activates political consumerist potentials, including sentiments towards anticonsumption. It furthermore shows how mass consumption makes people unable to link consumption to political considerations. Finally, the chapter analyses possibilities and difficulties in transforming niche political consumerist initiatives to the mainstream in a society that is dominated by mass consumption.
Avdelning/ar
- Sociologi
Publiceringsår
2018-01-01
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
855-875
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
The Oxford Handbook of Political Consumerism
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
Förlag
Oxford University Press
Ämne
- Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)
Nyckelord
- Alternative consumption
- Anticonsumption
- Mainstream
- Niche
- Sustainable consumption
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISBN: 9780190629038