Consuming narratives: the political ecology of ‘alternative’ consumption
Consuming narratives: the political ecology of ‘alternative’ consumption
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消费叙事：“另类”消费的政治生态
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2004
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M. Goodman
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R. Bryant;M. Goodman
本文探讨了热带保护和社会正义的政治生态主题是如何成为支撑北方“替代”消费的代表性做法的。商品文化的概念被用来理解两种消费行为的模糊的合理性和伦理假设。第一个案例认为伊甸园神话的制造被用来同化南方对热带森林砍伐的担忧，以适应北方消费密集型的生活方式。第二个案例着眼于公平贸易，以及对南方社会不公正和不公平劳工做法的关切如何被利用于构成“激进”生活方式的寻求团结的消费。这篇论文表明，这些对比鲜明的商品文化大致符合红绿辩论中的不同立场。它认为，由于不加批判地接受消费作为行动的主要基础，两者都被削弱为一种社会和政治的“远距离关怀”形式。
This paper examines how political ecology themes of tropical conservation and social justice become representational practices underpinning ‘alternative’ consumption in the North. The notion of commodity culture is adopted to understand the ambiguous rationalities and ethical assumptions of two sets of consumption practices. The first case considers Edenic myth-making used to assimilate concerns over tropical deforestation in the South to consumption-intensive if conservation-minded lifestyles in the North. The second case looks at fair trade and how concern about social injustice and unfair labour practices in the South is harnessed to solidarity-seeking consumption constitutive of ‘radical’ lifestyles. The paper suggests these contrasting commodity cultures broadly conform to divergent positions in red–green debates. It argues that both are weakened as a form of social and political ‘caring at a distance’ due to an uncritical acceptance of consumption as the primary basis of action.