Political Virtue and Shopping: Individuals, Consumerism, and Collective Action

by Michele Micheletti

Book Overview

Shoppers can express their values as they search for value. Political consumerism is turning the market into a site for politics and ethics, as consumer choices reflect personal attitudes and purchases are informed by ethical or political assessment of business and government practice. In such forms as boycotts, when consumers refuse to buy, or buycotts, where consumers shift their purchases, the ostensibly apolitical marketplace is a site of contestation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230102700
• ISBN13: 9780230102705
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 307 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"