TY  - CHAP
AB  - Purpose The goal in this research is to offer a new interpretation of activism by focusing not on the various ideologies but on the order of worth that coordinates activism.Methodology/approach Ethnographic approaches of participant observation and nondirective interviewing were the methods used in this study.Findings Drawing on the order models (Boltanski & Thévenot, 1991), the authors introduce the existence of an “activist order.” This order is composed of rules that coordinate activists’ practices. Activists draw on this “activist order” to justify their practices but also to criticize other orders such as the market order.Originality/value This “activist order” serves as the structure underpinning both activists’ institutional frameworks (such as CSA and LETS) and their actions (e.g., antiadvertising campaigns). This paper also has implications for our understanding of the relationship between the Marketplace and consumer movements. The authors demonstrate that people navigate between different order of worth, from the market order to the “activist order” and vice versa.
VL  - 17
SN  - 978-1-78560-323-5, 978-1-78560-322-8/0885-2111
DO  - 10.1108/S0885-211120150000017006
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0885-211120150000017006
AU  - Benmecheddal Ahmed
AU  - Özçaglar-Toulouse Nil
PY  - 2015
Y1  - 2015/01/01
TI  - The Formation of Consumer Activism: Context and Meanings of an Activist Order
T2  - Consumer Culture Theory
T3  - Research in Consumer Behavior
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 111
EP  - 128
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -