Green Consumption: The Global Rise of Eco-Chic
- Bloomsbury Academic, London: 2014.
- xvii, 204 p. ; 24 cm.
Preface / Richard Wilk -- The paradoxes of eco-chic / Bart Barendregt and Rivke Jaffe -- Part One : From production to consumption. Adversaries into Partners? Brand Coca-Cola and the politics of consumer-citizenship / Robert J. Foster ; Peopling the practices of sustainable consumption : eco-chic and the limits to the spaces of intention / Raymond L. Bryant and Michael K. zGoodman ; Global gold connections : ethical consumption and the beauty of bonding artisans / Sabine Luning and Marjo De Theije -- Part II : Spatialities and temporalities. Marketing the mountain : the emergence and consequences of eco-chic practices in the Basque region / Seth Murray and Meredith Welch-Devine ; Green is the new green : eco-aesthetics in Singapore / Chris Hudson ; The caring, committed eco-mom : consumption ideals and lived realities of Toronto mothers / Kate cairns, Kim de Laat, Josée Johnston, and Shyon Baumann -- part III : Bodies and beauty. Afro-chic : beauty, ethics, and "Locks without dread" in Ghana / Anna-Riikka Kauppinen and Rachel Spronk ; Ital chic : Rastafari, resistance, and the politics of consumption in Jamaica / Rivke Jaffe ; Tropical spa culture and the face of new Asian beauty / Bart Barendregt -- Afterword : from eco-chic to eco-smart / Sharon Zukin.
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Sustainable development--Economic aspects Environmentalism--Economic aspects Sustainable living Green movement