Globalizing Responsibility: The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption presents an innovative reinterpretation of the forces that have shaped the remarkable growth of ethical consumption.

• Develops a theoretically informed new approach to shape our understanding of the pragmatic nature of ethical action in consumption processes


• Provides empirical research on everyday consumers, social networks, and campaigns


• Fills a gap in research on the topic with its distinctive focus on fair trade consumption


• Locates ethical consumption within a range of social theoretical debates -on neoliberalism, governmentality, and globalisation


• Challenges the moralism of much of the analysis of ethical consumption, which sees it as a retreat from proper citizenly politics and an expression of individualised consumerism