Böcker i Routledge Studies in Critical Marketing-serien

This book seeks to reflect various unheard and emerging critical voices from within the Muslim world, providing critical insights on how, if and why Islam matters to marketing theory and practice. This insightful collection will be of interest to those interested in marketing, consumer behaviour, Islamic studies, cultural studies and sociology.

Comprehensive multi-disciplinary analysis of the conditions which affect how vulnerable individuals experience, interpret and respond to the marketplace and how the marketplace responds to them.

Place branding is often a response to inter-place competition, developed in a vacuum, ignoring the needs of local communities and applying quick-fix solutions regardless of geographical and socio-political contexts. The need for more responsible and socially sensitive approaches catering for a wide range of stakeholders, can no longer be ignored. The contributions in this innovative book introduce new critical ways of thinking around place branding that encourage it to be more inclusive and participatory. It will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of branding, critical marketing, and destination marketing as well as critical tourism and environmental design.

In this edited volume, the leading scholars in the field engage with consumers, marketers, corporations and policymakers as well as space dynamics and network formation to provide an in-depth examination of anti-consumption: a voluntary behavioural inclination to minimise rather than grow, to decelerate and simplify and to reduce the unnecessary exploitation of resources fuelled by consumer culture. This book does not place anti-consumption on the high moral ground but rather demonstrates its complexity to spur innovative and critical thinking on how people, organisations, businesses and governments can treat consumption more as a necessity for survival than as a tool for self-expression, pleasure and economic growth.The first part of this book looks at anti-consumption from a diversity of perspectives. It analyses voluntary simplicity, a self-motivated engagement in consumption reduction, and boycotting, a politically-motivated reaction against unacceptable corporate practices, as distinct manifestations of anti-consumption that nonetheless remain rooted in the logic of the market. Paving the way to critical perspectives on the interface between anti-consumption, people and the environment, the second part of the book projects anti-consumption to issues of waste production and provides possible answers to global challenges of resources depletion, social inequalities and global warming. In this section, anti-consumption is critically assessed as an actor of change, both in terms of social change and paradigm change. To move the field forward, the third part of this book presents several theoretical frameworks that help set a roadmap for future research.Anti-Consumption will be of direct interest to scholars and researchers within the fields of marketing, consumer research, business studies, environmental studies and sustainability. It will also be of value to those researching the economics and/or sociology of markets.