Ethical Consumption: A Critical Introduction

Supermarkets selling 'guilt free' products; 'eco-makeover' shows exhorting us to buy local and go green; action groups bent on 'swopping not shopping'. A widespread ethical turn is reshaping consumer culture. This edited collection offers a lively and accessible critical introduction to the socio-cultural politics of 'ethical consumption' from an international perspective.

Tania Lewis is a Senior Research Fellow in Sociology in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne. She is author of Smart Living: Lifestyle Media and Popular Expertise (Peter Lang, 2008) and editor of TV Transformations: Revealing the Makeover Show (Routledge, 2009). Emily Potter is a Research Fellow in the School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University, Melbourne. She is co-editor of Fresh Water: New Perspectives on Water in Australia (Melbourne University Press, 2007), and has published widely on questions of culture and the environment.