Alice Malpass

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that existing research on consumption fails to register the full complexity of the practices, motivations and mechanisms through which the working-up of moral selves is undertaken in relation to consumption practices.

TL;DR: It is found that patients' experience of antidepressants is characterised by the decision-making process and the meaning- making process, conceptualised here as the 'medication career' and 'moral career'.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the connection between consumption and consumers is a contingent achievement of strategically motivated actors with specific objectives in the public realm, and they conclude that ethical consumption campaigning is a political phenomenon in which everyday consumption practices are reconstituted as the sites for citizenly acts that reach beyond the realm of consumption per se.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an innovative reinterpretation of the forces that have shaped the remarkable growth of ethical consumption and present a theoretically informed new approach to shape our understanding of the pragmatic nature of ethical action in consumption processes.

TL;DR: The authors assesses the degree to which conceptualizations of neo-liberal governance and advanced liberal governmentality can shed light on contemporary transformations in the practices and politics of consumption, and explore the extent to which aspects of Foucault's discussions of government and ethics can be put to work methodologically without necessarily buying into fully systematized theories of governmentality that have been built around them.