Consuming ethics: Articulating the subjects and spaces of ethical consumption
Consuming ethics: Articulating the subjects and spaces of ethical consumption
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DOI：
10.1111/j.0066-4812.2005.00472.x
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发表时间：
2005-01-01
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5
通讯作者：
Malpass, A
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作者：
Barnett, C;Cloke, P;Malpass, A
地理学关于如何保持道德责任感的辩论经常强调远距离关怀的问题性质，并理所当然地认为特定类型的道德自我，其中责任与强调知识和承认的人类主体概念有关。把商品消费作为一个领域，在这个领域中，伦理、道德和责任政治都受到了质疑，我们认为，现有的消费研究未能充分认识到消费实践中道德自我形成的实践、动机和机制的复杂性。我们并不认为道德决策是通过合理计算义务来实现的，而是将道德消费的出现概念化，认为它是通过政策、运动和实践来重新阐述日常实际道德倾向的方式，这些政策、运动和实践将普通人纳入更广泛的社会变革项目。因此，道德消费既涉及对消费的支配，也涉及对消费自我的支配。使用Traidcraft的例子，我们提出了一个特定的背景下，自我意识的道德消费介导的详细检查，这表明道德消费可以被理解为开放的道德和政治的考虑，在新的组合。因此，我们认为，作为一个新的政治行动领域的道德消费的增长的重要性，同时也强调道德消费可以打开规范性批判的理由。
Geography's debates about how to maintain a sense of morally responsible action often emphasise the problematic nature of caring at a distance, and take for granted particular kinds of moral selfhood in which responsibility is bound into notions of human agency that emphasise knowledge and recognition. Taking commodity consumption as a field in which the ethics, morality, and politics of responsibility has been problematised, we argue that existing research on consumption fails to register the full complexity of the practices, motivations and mechanisms through which the working-up of moral selves is undertaken in relation to consumption practices. Rather than assuming that ethical decision-making works through the rational calculation of obligations, we conceptualise the emergence of ethical consumption as ways in which everyday practical moral dispositions are re-articulated by policies, campaigns and practices that enlist ordinary people into broader projects of social change. Ethical consumption, then, involves both a governing of consumption and a governing of the consuming self. Using the example of Traidcraft, we present a detailed examination of one particular context in which self-consciously ethical consumption is mediated, suggesting that ethical consumption can be understood as opening up ethical and political considerations in new combinations. We therefore argue for the importance of the growth of ethical consumption as a new terrain of political action, while also emphasising the grounds upon which ethical consumption can be opened up to normative critique.