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| Author: | Micheletti, M. Follesdal, A. |
| Title: | Shopping for human rights. An introduction to the Special issue |
| Journal: | Journal of Consumer Policy
2007 : SEP, VOL. 30:3, p. 167-175 |
| Index terms: | political economy consumerism responsibility human rights fair trading |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | A worldwide marketplace for trading goods has opened through globalization, free trade, and individualization. Consumers are viewed as important active holders of responsibility for global welfare by the fair trade movement and other political consumerist endeavours. Civil society and governments strive to teach consumers how political consumerism (here as: pol-cons.) can be used as a push factor to change market capitalism. The market itself can also create an interest in pol-cons. This Special issue contents as follows: "The Social Pedagogy of Wall Street: Stock Trading as Political Activism?" by D. Zwick (et al.), p. 177-199 ; "The Fair Trade Idea: Towards an Economics of Social Labels" by T. Steinrücken (et al.), p. 201-217 ; "Fair Trade: Dynamic and Dilemmas of a Market Oriented Global Social Movement" by J. Wilkinson, p. 219-239 ; "Fair Trade Coffee and Human Rights in Guatemala" by S. Lyon, p. 241-261 ; "Consumption, Resistance and Everyday Life: Ruptures and Continuities" by S. Tormey, p. 263-280 ; "Framing the Corporation: Royal Dutch/Shell and Human Rights Woes in Nigeria" by B. Holzer, p. 281-301. |
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