The Poverty of Morality

By Daniel Miller. 2001

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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(De)commodification, Consumer Culture, and Moral Economy (2003, background): “As Daniel Miller (2001a) notes, many of the moralistic critiques of consumption have been based on elitist prejudices rather than on empirical evidence of how people consume.”
Understanding poverty and promoting poverty alleviation through transformative consumer research (2013, background): “In reality, materialism amongst the poor is sometimes prevalent because of sheer desire and desperation for consumer objects they lack (Miller, 2001).”
A critical appraisal of Sustainable Consumption and Production research: The reformist, revolutionary and reconfiguration positions (2015, background): “The revolutionary position, on the other hand, is politically unpalatable, especially in current socioeconomic contexts, and carries risks of elitism (Miller, 2001).”
Green Consumption (2008, background): “It remains devoid of any understanding of consumer practices as being embedded in social relations (Miller, 2001) or the fact that all consumption is cultural, meaningful and historical (Slater, 1997).”
Reducing Meat Consumption in Today’s Consumer Society: Questioning the Citizen-Consumer Gap (2012, background): “Consumers are not mere passive or powerless victims, and the entire world is not overrun by multinationals or McDonaldization (see e.g., Miller 1998, 2001).”
From commodity fetishism to commodity narcissism (2012, background): “…prevalent within marketing and consumer research debates (e.g. Bauman, 2007; Bauman, 2008; Crane, 2000; Dolan, 2002; Kilbourne et al., 1997; Miller, 2001; Salzer-Mörling and Strannegård, 2007; Schwarzkopf, 2011; Wilk, 2001; Schor et al., 2010) and the persistent criticism of the consumer…”
Studying the ethical consumer: a review of research (2007, background): “As a number of scholars have pointed out this is not a viable position (Borgmann, 2000; Miller, 2001; Wilk, 2001).”