Manyukhina, Y;
(2017)
Consumer Food Ethics: Considerations of Vulnerability, Suffering, and Harm.
Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
, 30
(4)
pp. 595-614.
10.1007/s10806-017-9689-0.
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Abstract
Over the past years, various accounts of ethical consumption have been produced which identify certain concepts as central to mediating the ethical relationship between the consumer and the consumed. Scholars across disciplinary fields have explored how individuals construe their ethical consumption responsibilities and commitments through the notions of identity, taking care and doing good, proximity and distance, suggesting the centrality of these themes to consumer engagement in ethical practices. This paper contributes to the body of research concerned with unravelling consumers’ conceptually mediated relationship to moral and ethical issues in the sphere of consumption by revealing a new set of ideas through which people interpret and relate to consumption ethics. Drawing upon findings from an empirical study on self-perceived ethical food consumers, I demonstrate that people’s perceptions and views of ethical problems around consumption are bound up with notions of vulnerability, suffering, and harm, and that these notions permeate and impact all aspects of ethical consumer behaviour. The paper concludes by arguing that we need to further explore the conceptual underpinnings of ethical consumer commitments and practices, and expand the conceptual toolkit of research on ethical consumption to account for a wider range of ideas and notions that shape individual as well as collective motivations, intentions, and actions throughout the process of becoming and being an ethical consumer. Finally, the paper suggests a specific analytical framework to facilitate such research.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Consumer Food Ethics: Considerations of Vulnerability, Suffering, and Harm |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10806-017-9689-0 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10806-017-9689-0 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Ethical consumer, Consumption ethics, Vulnerability, Suffering, Harm, CONSUMPTION, GEOGRAPHIES, GREEN, RESPONSIBILITY, COMMUNITIES, BEHAVIOR, CARE |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Learning and Leadership |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10045154 |
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