Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, College of Liberal Arts, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
Appetite. 2021 Aug 1;163:105206. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2021.105206. Epub 2021 Mar 23.
In addition to upending nearly every segment of the economy, COVID-19 has uprooted social life as we know it and the innumerable discourses and practices therein contained. While a terrible event, it can also be approached as offering a once-in-a-lifetime (hopefully) natural experiment. This is certainly true as far as the global pandemic applies to how and what we eat, given how it has radically altered many everyday food-related practices, whether due to supply chain failures or state-mandates (e.g., shelter-in-place orders). This paper is based on data collected pre- and post-outbreak, triangulating survey and qualitative data, in an attempt to further interrogate the concepts of ethical consumption and activism broadly defined, including the idea of consumer activism. With conceptual assistance from social practice theory, the paper interrogates certain long-standing questions in the literature, such as ethical consumption's link to other forms of political action. It also poses new ones, such as by disentangling the various ways individuals do (and do not do) ethical consumption. Finally, the data suggest tentative empirical and conceptual paths forward as we contemplate ethical consumption and social activism more generally in the shadow of COVID-19.
除了颠覆几乎所有经济领域外，COVID-19 还颠覆了我们所熟知的社会生活，以及其中包含的无数话语和实践。虽然这是一件可怕的事情，但它也可以被视为提供了一生中（希望如此）难得的自然实验。就全球大流行如何影响我们的饮食以及我们吃什么而言，这一点肯定是正确的，因为它极大地改变了许多日常与食物相关的实践，无论是由于供应链中断还是国家强制要求（例如，就地避难令）。本文基于疫情爆发前后收集的数据，对调查和定性数据进行三角分析，试图进一步探讨广义上的道德消费和激进主义的概念，包括消费者激进主义的概念。本文借助社会实践理论的概念协助，探讨了文献中的某些长期存在的问题，例如道德消费与其他形式的政治行动之间的联系。它还提出了新的问题，例如通过梳理个人在道德消费方面所做（和未做）的各种方式。最后，这些数据为我们在 COVID-19 的阴影下更广泛地思考道德消费和社会激进主义提供了初步的经验和概念途径。
