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Consumer Activism

Promotional Culture and Resistance

by Eleftheria J Lekakis ...

"A crucial intervention to both critical studies of consumption and research into activism. It authoritatively explores the complex and multiplying links between branding and neoliberal culture, consumer practices and social justice."– Professor Mehita Iqani, Stellenbosch University"Eleftheria Lekakis reminds us that as consumers, we can do much more than just buy our way out of social or ... Read more

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"A crucial intervention to both critical studies of consumption and research into activism. It authoritatively explores the complex and multiplying links between branding and neoliberal culture, consumer practices and social justice."– Professor Mehita Iqani, Stellenbosch University"Eleftheria Lekakis reminds us that as consumers, we can do much more than just buy our way out of social or
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Coffee Activism and the Politics of Fair Trade and Ethical Consumption in the Global North

Political Consumerism and Cultural Citizenship

by Eleftheria J. Lekakis ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This book explores the politics borne of consumption through the case of coffee activism and ethical consumption. It analyses the agencies, structures, repertoires and technologies of promotion and participation in the politics of fair trade consumption through an exploration of the relationship between activism and consumption. ... Read more

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This book explores the politics borne of consumption through the case of coffee activism and ethical consumption. It analyses the agencies, structures, repertoires and technologies of promotion and participation in the politics of fair trade consumption through an exploration of the relationship between activism and consumption.
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Freer Trade, Sustainability, and the Primary Production Sector in the Southern EU: Unraveling the Evidence from Greece

Edited by J. Lekakis ...

Series Book 16 - Economy & Environment
Freer Trade, Sustainability, and the Primary Production Sector in the Southern European Union is the first full-scale academic work to cap ture the primary production sector policy aspects of trade liberaliza tion and sustainability with a detailed focus on a typical southern EU country, Greece. Many efforts were pooled together in making this book. In May 1996 the Department of Economics of the ... Read more

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Freer Trade, Sustainability, and the Primary Production Sector in the Southern European Union is the first full-scale academic work to cap ture the primary production sector policy aspects of trade liberaliza tion and sustainability with a detailed focus on a typical southern EU country, Greece. Many efforts were pooled together in making this book. In May 1996 the Department of Economics of the
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Nice Racism

How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm

by Dr. Robin DiAngelo ...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBuilding on the groundwork laid in the New York Times bestseller White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explores how a culture of niceness inadvertently promotes racism.**In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialized and challenged the belief that racism is a simple matter of good people versus bad. DiAngelo also ... Read more

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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBuilding on the groundwork laid in the New York Times bestseller White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explores how a culture of niceness inadvertently promotes racism.**In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialized and challenged the belief that racism is a simple matter of good people versus bad. DiAngelo also
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Campus Confidential

100 startling things you don't know about Canadian universities (Second Edition)

by Ken S. Coates, Bill Morrison ...

In 2011, the first edition of Campus Confidential sparked a lively debate about what is really going on inside our colleges and universities. The media and readers alike welcomed this readable, honest book. University authorities didn't. They took the authors to task for spilling the beans. In this second edition, Ken S. Coates and Bill Morrison pick up where they left off, adding new and up-to ... Read more

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In 2011, the first edition of Campus Confidential sparked a lively debate about what is really going on inside our colleges and universities. The media and readers alike welcomed this readable, honest book. University authorities didn't. They took the authors to task for spilling the beans. In this second edition, Ken S. Coates and Bill Morrison pick up where they left off, adding new and up-to
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Sociology For Dummies

by Jay Gabler ...

Understand how society works—and how to make it betterIt’s impossible to exist in the contemporary world without being aware that powerful social forces, ideas, and movements—#MeToo, climate change, and Black Lives Matter to name just a few—are having far-reaching impacts on how we think and live. But why are they happening? And what are their likely effects? The new edition of Sociology For ... Read more

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Understand how society works—and how to make it betterIt’s impossible to exist in the contemporary world without being aware that powerful social forces, ideas, and movements—#MeToo, climate change, and Black Lives Matter to name just a few—are having far-reaching impacts on how we think and live. But why are they happening? And what are their likely effects? The new edition of Sociology For
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White Fragility

Why Understanding Racism Can Be So Hard for White People (Adapted for Young Adults)

by Dr. Robin DiAngelo, Toni Graves Williamson, Ali Michael ...

A reimagining of thebest-selling book that gives young adults the tools to ask questions, engage in dialogue, challenge their ways of thinking, and take action to create a more racially just world.“I was taught to treat everyone the same.” “I don’t see color.” “My parents voted for Obama.” When white people have the opportunity to think and talk about race and racism, they more often than not don ... Read more

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A reimagining of thebest-selling book that gives young adults the tools to ask questions, engage in dialogue, challenge their ways of thinking, and take action to create a more racially just world.“I was taught to treat everyone the same.” “I don’t see color.” “My parents voted for Obama.” When white people have the opportunity to think and talk about race and racism, they more often than not don
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Missing Class

Strengthening Social Movement Groups by Seeing Class Cultures

by Betsy Leondar-Wright ...

Many activists worry about the same few problems in their groups: low turnout, inactive members, conflicting views on racism, overtalking, and offensive violations of group norms. But in searching for solutions to these predictable and intractable troubles, progressive social movement groups overlook class culture differences. Missing Class looks through a class lens and discovers that members ... Read more

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Many activists worry about the same few problems in their groups: low turnout, inactive members, conflicting views on racism, overtalking, and offensive violations of group norms. But in searching for solutions to these predictable and intractable troubles, progressive social movement groups overlook class culture differences. Missing Class looks through a class lens and discovers that members
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Heads Up Sociology

by DK ...

Series series DK Heads UP
Why does racism exist? Is Big Brother watching us? Why are women paid less than men? Investigate society's hidden truths, from gender and identity politics to consumer culture with this insightful guide.Sociology is the study of how societies are organized and what helps them function or go wrong. Heads Up Sociology explores a range of curious social phenomena, including poverty and class status, ... Read more

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Why does racism exist? Is Big Brother watching us? Why are women paid less than men? Investigate society's hidden truths, from gender and identity politics to consumer culture with this insightful guide.Sociology is the study of how societies are organized and what helps them function or go wrong. Heads Up Sociology explores a range of curious social phenomena, including poverty and class status,
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Architecture & Design versus Consumerism

How Design Activism Confronts Growth

by Ann Thorpe ...

The mentality that consumerism and economic growth are cure-alls is one of the biggest obstacles to real sustainability, but any change seems impossible, unthinkable. Our contemporary paradox finds us relying for our well being on consumer-driven economic growth that we actually can’t afford — not in environmental, economic or social terms. Although architecture and design have long been seen as ... Read more

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The mentality that consumerism and economic growth are cure-alls is one of the biggest obstacles to real sustainability, but any change seems impossible, unthinkable. Our contemporary paradox finds us relying for our well being on consumer-driven economic growth that we actually can’t afford — not in environmental, economic or social terms. Although architecture and design have long been seen as
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Sharing Cities

A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities

by Duncan McLaren, Julian Agyeman ...

Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
How cities can build on the “sharing economy” and smart technology to deliver a “sharing paradigm” that supports justice, solidarity, and sustainability.The future of humanity is urban, and the nature of urban space enables, and necessitates, sharing—of resources, goods and services, experiences. Yet traditional forms of sharing have been undermined in modern cities by social fragmentation and ... Read more

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How cities can build on the “sharing economy” and smart technology to deliver a “sharing paradigm” that supports justice, solidarity, and sustainability.The future of humanity is urban, and the nature of urban space enables, and necessitates, sharing—of resources, goods and services, experiences. Yet traditional forms of sharing have been undermined in modern cities by social fragmentation and
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Commodity Activism

Cultural Resistance in Neoliberal Times

Edited by Roopali Mukherjee, Sarah Banet-Weiser ...

Series Book 21 - Critical Cultural Communication
Buying (RED) products—from Gap T-shirts to Apple—to fight AIDS.Drinking a “Caring Cup” of coffee at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf tosupport fair trade. Driving a Toyota Prius to fight global warming. Allthese commonplace activities point to a central feature of contemporaryculture: the most common way we participate in social activism is bybuying something.Roopali Mukherjee and Sarah Banet-Weiser ... Read more

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Buying (RED) products—from Gap T-shirts to Apple—to fight AIDS.Drinking a “Caring Cup” of coffee at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf tosupport fair trade. Driving a Toyota Prius to fight global warming. Allthese commonplace activities point to a central feature of contemporaryculture: the most common way we participate in social activism is bybuying something.Roopali Mukherjee and Sarah Banet-Weiser
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