Introduction: What Is Political Consumerism?
The concept of political consumerism identifies instances when people evaluate and choose producers and products because they want to change ethically, environmentally, or politically objectionable institutional or market practices. Practices within political consumerism are informed by attitudes and values regarding broad issues of sustainable development that can even include beliefs about the responsibility of different actors involved in production and consumption and the role of government in using the market as an arena for politics (for interesting discussions on this, see Young 2006; Forno and Gunnarson 2010). Political consumerism can be practiced by individuals, civil society groups, and governmental, not-for-profit, and for-profit organizations. In different ways and for different reasons,...
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Micheletti, M., Boström, M. (2013). Political Consumerism: Consumer Choice, Information, and Labeling. In: Thompson, P., Kaplan, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6167-4_244-4
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