Political consumerism: Why the market is an arena for politics

Ethics and the Politics of Food: Preprints of the 6th Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 23-27

  Micheletti, Michele ^a  

^a KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Boycotts; Buycotts; Consumers; Globalization; Governance; Labeling schemes; Political consumerism; Political responsibilitytaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887726238     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-575-8     Document Type: Chapter

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