Consumer Boycotts as Female Ethics, 1800-1990

消费者抵制作为女性道德，1800-1990

• 批准号: 397563763
• 负责人: Privatdozentin Dr. Kerstin von Lingen
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Exzellenzcluster "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" (aufgelöst)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2017-12-31 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/397563763?language=en
• 关键词: Consumer; Boycotts; Female; Ethics; 1800

Consumer boycotts, especially of food and supported by mass movements, are perceived to be a powerful ethical tool to achieve goals to change behavior by destabilizing existing moral orders and practices. The anti-apartheid movement which banned fruit from South Africa since 1959 until the collapse of the regime is a powerful example, the late 19th century campaign to boycott feathers from Paradise birds from Indonesia used for decorating hats another. It is less known that the method of boycotting certain consumer goods has been successfully applied already in the early 19th century in Britain, for example on sugar and coffee. What is even more striking is the fact that both protest movements emerged with radical-protestant groups, and to be more precise, from their female branches.This project, drawing from global history, anthropological as well as gender studies perspectives, focuses in particular on analyzing female modes of protest, and asks how they triggered the boycott to destabilize the existing global economic order linking Asia and Europe. It argues that women’s activism played a crucial role in inaugurating new forms of ethical politics in the 19th century by developing consumer boycott as a powerful tool.

消费者抵制，特别是食品抵制，并得到群众运动的支持，被认为是一个强大的道德工具，通过破坏现有的道德秩序和做法来实现改变行为的目标。自1959年以来禁止从南非进口水果直到政权垮台的反种族隔离运动就是一个有力的例子，世纪末抵制印度尼西亚天堂鸟羽毛用于装饰帽子的运动也是一个有力的例子。鲜为人知的是，抵制某些消费品的方法早在世纪就在英国成功地应用，例如糖和咖啡。更令人惊讶的是，这两次抗议运动都是由激进的新教团体，更准确地说，是由女性分支发起的。本项目从全球历史、人类学和性别研究的视角，特别关注分析女性的抗议模式，并探讨她们是如何引发抵制活动，从而动摇连接亚洲和欧洲的现有全球经济秩序的。它认为，妇女的行动主义发挥了至关重要的作用，在开创新形式的伦理政治在世纪的发展消费者抵制作为一个强大的工具。