Political consumerism between individual choice and collective action : social movements, role mobilization and signalling

By B. Holzer. 2006

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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3. Sebastian Koos
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Citations in the corpus

• Responsibility and agency within alternative food networks: assembling the “citizen consumer” (2009, background): “As Holzer (2006) points out, large retailers have considerable capacity to control the supply of goods (and, we might add, the signifiers attached to those goods through branding, packaging, and promotional material).”
• What drives political consumption in Europe? A multi-level analysis on individual characteristics, opportunity structures and globalization (2012, background): “Two of these dimensions seem crucial for consumer activism: first, the institutional openness of political governance to civil society (Jepperson, 2002) and, second, the countervailing organizational power of civil society in mobilizing consumers (Holzer, 2006).”
• Ethical Consumption and New Business Models in the Food Industry. Evidence from the Eataly Case (2013, background): “2006), as it gave birth to collectives and social movements (Hiatt et al. 2009; Holzer 2006; Kozinets and Handelman 2004; Moraes et al. 2010).”
• Varieties of Environmental Labelling, Market Structures, and Sustainable Consumption Across Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Organizational and Market Supply Determinants of Environmental-Labelled Goods (2011, background): “Environmental movement organizations can create frames of environmental issues that are important for understanding the public consequences of private actions (Holzer 2006).”
• A Market Mediation Strategy: How Social Movements Seek to Change Firms’ Practices by Promoting New Principles of Product Valuation (2013, background): “Like other SMOs, they have been involved in what has been called ‘political consumerism’ (Bartley, 2005, 2007; Holzer, 2006; Micheletti, 2003).”
• Selling and consuming the nation: Understanding consumer nationalism (2018, methodology): “In this sense, PCN relies on what Holzer (2006) in his discussion of political consumerism defines as “role mobilization”, namely the collectivization of your private choice in the moment of the purchase.”