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Consuming Social Justice

February 2, 2001 – 9:07 am

This article attempts to move beyond totalising cynicism, as well as unbridled optimism, towards a more nuanced understanding of fair trade. I explore the contradictions and paradoxes of using consumer practices to build bridges of socio-economic solidarity across core and periphery. More specifically, I want to determine how fair-trade discourse constructs understandings of development, consumerism, and global justice.

Posted in features | Also tagged alternative consumption, alternative trade organisations (ATOs), capitalism, collective action, Commerce Clause of the US Constitution, commodity fetishism, consumerism, corporate power, de-linking from the global economy, debt crisis, democracy, development, economic exploitation, environmentally friendly, ethical consumption, ethical mutual funds, fair trade, Fair Trade Federation, First World, Fourth World, global inequality, global justice, globalisation, identity construction, imperialism, indigenous right, individuality, International Federation for Alternative Trade (IFAT), Joseé Johnston, lifestyle politics, living wage, local self-sufficiency, Margaret Thatcher, market theory, marketing, micro-lifestyle politics, Multilateral Agreement on Investment, natural resources, neo-colonialism, neo-imperialism, North American Free Trade Agreement, over-consumption, public sphere, rational consumer, Ronald Reagan, San Francisco resolution, social inequality, sustainability, sustainable development, sustainable environmental practices, sweatshop labour, Third World, trade advantages, underdevelopment, workers’ co-operatives | Comments Off

Prague Autumn

August 2, 2000 – 6:38 am

Guy Rundle Pollyanna politics and global social movements

Posted in editorial | Also tagged affinity groups, anarchism, anarchists, Bakunin, churches, civil disobedience, class, consumers, Earth First, free trade, G8, genetically modified foods, global protest movement, Guy Rundle, J18, Pat Buchanan, Reclaim the Streets, Rousseau, situationists, students, subcultures, technology, unions, United States, World Bank, World Trade Organisation (WTO) | Comments Off

Towards Global Diversity

April 2, 2000 – 4:32 pm

The combination of high technology and the market has produced new kind of economy and culture, writes John Hinkson

Posted in editorial | Also tagged Adam Smith, Anthony Giddens, culture, Davos, economy, European Union, Gerard Henderson, global culture, global protest movement, globalisation, history, industrial revolution, Jeff Kennett, John Hinkson, Karl Marx, market, media, mediation, modernity, One Nation, reciprocal exchange, social policy, socialism, socialist utopia, technology, the third way, Tony Blair, United States, World Economic Forum (WEF), World Trade Organization (WTO) | Comments (1)

Uncanny Reflection – The Destruction of Chechnya

December 2, 1999 – 6:54 am

NATO’s bombing of Serbian forces and Russia’s action in Chechnya have some chilling similarities writes Simon Cooper

Posted in against the current | Also tagged Al Gore, Asia, Balkans, Bill Clinton, bomb attacks, Boris Yeltsin, Britain, capitalism, Caucasus, Chechen republic, Chechnya, economic sanctions, Europe, financial crisis, fundamentalist Islam, gas, Grozny, humanitarian aid, Indonesia, information war, international markets, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Islam, kidnapping, Kosovo, loan defaults, Madeline Allbright, media, money-laundering, Muslim, natural resources, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), oil, oil & gas reserves, Patrick Cockburn, Red Cross, retaliation, Rupert Cornwall, Russia, Serbia, Simon Cooper, terrorism, Tony Blair, United States, USSR, Vladimir Putin, Zygmunt Bauman | Comments Off

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