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.
Table of Content
1. Understanding Coffee Activism, Ethical Consumption and Political Consumerism 2. A History of Mainstreaming the Fair Trade Market and Movement 3. Politics in the Marketopoly: Cultural Citizenship and Political Consumerism 4. In Politics I Trust: Individualisation and the Politics and Pleasures of the Self 5. A Liquid Politics: Structures and Narratives of Participation in Digital Coffee Activism 6. Digital Media, Space and Politics: Cosmopolitan Citizenship in Coffee Activism 7. A Politics in the Pocket?
About the author
Eleftheria Lekakis is Lecturer in Global Communications in the School of Media, Film and Music at the University of Sussex, UK.
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