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135 relations: Activism, Adbusters, Advertising, Adware, Affluenza, American Psycho, Ammon Hennacy, Andrew Potter, Animal rights, Anti-capitalism, Anti-corporate activism, Anti-globalization movement, Austrian School, Banksy, Bernard Stiegler, Bertrand Russell, Biosphere, Brand, Bret Easton Ellis, Carrying capacity, Consumer behaviour, Consumer education, Consumerism, Corporate crime, Counter-economics, Cradle of civilization, Crime, Culture jamming, Curriculum, David Ricardo, Détournement, Degrowth, Downshifting (lifestyle), Ecological footprint, Ecological Society of America, Economic inequality, Economic materialism, Enron, Environmental degradation, Environmental protection, Environmentalism, Epidemiology, Erik Gandini, Escapism, Ethics, Fab Lab, Fascism, Fight Club, Francis of Assisi, Freeganism, ..., Georges Duhamel, Growth Fetish, Guerrilla marketing, Hedonism, Human rights, Ideology, Immorality, Individuation, Influence of mass media, Intentional community, James B. Twitchell, Jennifer Abbott, Jewellery, Jorge Majfud, Joseph Heath, Kashless.org, Keeping up with the Joneses, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Keynesian economics, Libertarianism, Mahatma Gandhi, Malaise, Mark Achbar, Mark Twain, Marxism, Media culture, Modernity, Mottainai, Mr. Money Mustache, Mr. Robot, Naomi Klein, Nation state, Natural environment, New Scientist, No Logo, One-Dimensional Man, Oswald Spengler, Overconsumption, Philanthropy, Philosophy of futility, Planned obsolescence, Political sociology, Pollution, Pope Benedict XVI, Position of trust, Post-consumerism, Poverty, Privacy, Producerism, Product placement, Productivism, Rationalization (psychology), Reason (magazine), Religion, Routledge, Shareholder, Simple living, Social stratification, Society, Spamming, Status symbol, Steady-state economy, Sut Jhally, Telemarketing, Thames & Hudson, The Corporation (2003 film), The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Zeitgeist Movement, This Magazine, Thomas Aquinas, Thorstein Veblen, Trade union, UN Chronicle, United States, University of British Columbia, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Florida, Utilitarianism, Vaporwave, War, Warren Hern, Waste picker, What Would Jesus Buy?, William E. Rees, William Rathje. Expand index (85 more) »
Activism
Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, or direct social, political, economic, or environmental reform or stasis with the desire to make improvements in society.
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Adbusters
The Adbusters Media Foundation is a Canadian-based not-for-profit, pro-environment organization founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Advertising
Advertising is an audio or visual form of marketing communication that employs an openly sponsored, non-personal message to promote or sell a product, service or idea.
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Adware
Adware, or advertising-supported software, is software that generates revenue for its developer by automatically generating online advertisements in the user interface of the software or on a screen presented to the user during the installation process.
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Affluenza
Affluenza, a portmanteau of affluence and influenza, is a term used by critics of consumerism.
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American Psycho
American Psycho is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991.
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Ammon Hennacy
Ammon Ashford Hennacy (July 24, 1893 – January 14, 1970) was an American Christian pacifist, anarchist, social activist, member of the Catholic Worker Movement, and Wobbly.
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Andrew Potter
Andrew Potter is a Canadian author and associate professor at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.
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Animal rights
Animal rights is the idea in which some, or all, non-human animals are entitled to the possession of their own lives and that their most basic interests—such as the need to avoid suffering—should be afforded the same consideration as similar interests of human beings.
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Anti-capitalism
Anti-capitalism encompasses a wide variety of movements, ideas and attitudes that oppose capitalism.
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Anti-corporate activism
Anti-corporate activism holds that the influence of big business corporations is a detriment to the public good and to the democratic process.
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Anti-globalization movement
The anti-globalization movement, or counter-globalisation movement, is a social movement critical of economic globalization.
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Austrian School
The Austrian School is a school of economic thought that is based on methodological individualism—the concept that social phenomena result from the motivations and actions of individuals.
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Banksy
Banksy is an anonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist and film director.
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Bernard Stiegler
Bernard Stiegler (born 1 April 1952) is a French philosopher.
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate.
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Biosphere
The biosphere (from Greek βίος bíos "life" and σφαῖρα sphaira "sphere") also known as the ecosphere (from Greek οἶκος oîkos "environment" and σφαῖρα), is the worldwide sum of all ecosystems.
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Brand
A brand is a name, term, design, symbol, or other feature that distinguishes an organization or product from its rivals in the eyes of the customer.
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Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964) is an American author, screenwriter, and short story writer.
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Carrying capacity
The carrying capacity of a biological species in an environment is the maximum population size of the species that the environment can sustain indefinitely, given the food, habitat, water, and other necessities available in the environment.
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Consumer behaviour
Consumer behaviour is the study of individuals, groups, or organizations and all the activities associated with the purchase, use and disposal of goods and services, including the consumer's emotional, mental and behavioural responses that precede or follow these activities.
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Consumer education
Consumer education is the preparation of an individual through skills, concepts and understanding that are required for everyday living to achieve maximum satisfaction and utilization of his/her resources.
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Consumerism
Consumerism is a social and economic order and ideology that encourages the acquisition of goods and services in ever-increasing amounts.
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Corporate crime
In criminology, corporate crime refers to crimes committed either by a corporation (i.e., a business entity having a separate legal personality from the natural persons that manage its activities), or by individuals acting on behalf of a corporation or other business entity (see vicarious liability and corporate liability).
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Counter-economics
Counter-economics is a term originally used by libertarian activists and theorists Samuel Edward Konkin III and J. Neil Schulman.
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Cradle of civilization
The term "cradle of civilization" refers to locations where, according to current archeological data, civilization is understood to have emerged.
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Crime
In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority.
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Culture jamming
Culture jamming (sometimes guerrilla communication) is a tactic used by many anti-consumerist social movements"Investigating the Anti-consumerism Movement in North America: The Case of Adbusters';" Binay, Ayse; (2005); dissertation, University of Texas to disrupt or subvert media culture and its mainstream cultural institutions, including corporate advertising.
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Curriculum
In education, a curriculum (plural: curricula or curriculums) is broadly defined as the totality of student experiences that occur in the educational process.
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David Ricardo
David Ricardo (18 April 1772 – 11 September 1823) was a British political economist, one of the most influential of the classical economists along with Thomas Malthus, Adam Smith and James Mill.
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Détournement
A détournement, meaning "rerouting, hijacking" in French, is a technique developed in the 1950s by the Letterist International, and later adapted by the Situationist International (SI),Report on the Construction of Situations (1957) that was defined in the SI's inaugural 1958 journal as "he integration of present or past artistic productions into a superior construction of a milieu.
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Degrowth
Degrowth (décroissance) is a political, economic, and social movement based on ecological economics, anti-consumerist and anti-capitalist ideas.
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Downshifting (lifestyle)
The term down-shifting in the English language refers to the act of reducing the gear of a motor vehicle while driving a manual transmission.
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Ecological footprint
The ecological footprint measures human demand on nature, i.e., the quantity of nature it takes to support people or an economy.
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Ecological Society of America
The Ecological Society of America (ESA) is a professional organization of ecological scientists.
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Economic inequality
Economic inequality is the difference found in various measures of economic well-being among individuals in a group, among groups in a population, or among countries.
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Economic materialism
Materialism is a personal attitude which attaches importance to acquiring and consuming material goods.
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Enron
Enron Corporation was an American energy, commodities, and services company based in Houston, Texas.
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Environmental degradation
Environmental degradation is the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as air, water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems; habitat destruction; the extinction of wildlife; and pollution.
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Environmental protection
Environmental protection is a practice of protecting the natural environment on individual, organization controlled or governmental levels, for the benefit of both the environment and humans.
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Environmentalism
Environmentalism or environmental rights is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement regarding concerns for environmental protection and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the impact of changes to the environment on humans, animals, plants and non-living matter.
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Epidemiology
Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where) and determinants of health and disease conditions in defined populations.
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Erik Gandini
Erik Walter Gandini (born 14 August 1967) is an Italian-Swedish film director, writer, and producer and one of the co-founders of production company.
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Escapism
Escapism is the avoidance of unpleasant, boring, arduous, scary, or banal aspects of daily life.
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Ethics
Ethics or moral philosophy is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct.
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Fab Lab
Fab Lab is a British television programme designed for pre-school children.
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Fascism
Fascism is a form of radical authoritarian ultranationalism, characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and control of industry and commerce, which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe.
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Fight Club
Fight Club is a 1999 film based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk.
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Francis of Assisi
Saint Francis of Assisi (San Francesco d'Assisi), born Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, informally named as Francesco (1181/11823 October 1226), was an Italian Catholic friar, deacon and preacher.
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Freeganism
Freeganism is a practice and ideology of limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources, particularly through recovering wasted goods like food.
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Georges Duhamel
Georges Duhamel (30 June 1884 – 13 April 1966) was a French author, born in Paris.
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Growth Fetish
Growth Fetish is a book about economics and politics by the Australian progressive political theorist Clive Hamilton.
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Guerrilla marketing
Guerrilla marketing is an advertisement strategy concept designed for businesses to promote their products or services in an unconventional way with little budget to spend.
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Hedonism
Hedonism is a school of thought that argues that the pursuit of pleasure and intrinsic goods are the primary or most important goals of human life.
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Human rights
Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, December 13, 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,, Retrieved August 14, 2014 that describe certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected as natural and legal rights in municipal and international law.
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Ideology
An Ideology is a collection of normative beliefs and values that an individual or group holds for other than purely epistemic reasons.
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Immorality
Immorality is the violation of moral laws, norms or standards.
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Individuation
The principle of individuation, or principium individuationis, describes the manner in which a thing is identified as distinguished from other things.
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Influence of mass media
In media studies, media psychology, communication theory and sociology, media influence and media effects are topics relating to mass media and media culture effects on individual or audience thought, attitudes and behavior.
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Intentional community
An intentional community is a planned residential community designed from the start to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork.
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James B. Twitchell
James B. Twitchell is an author and former professor of English.
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Jennifer Abbott
Jennifer Abbott is a Canadian director and editor, who specializes in social justice and environmental documentaries.
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Jewellery
Jewellery (British English) or jewelry (American English)see American and British spelling differences consists of small decorative items worn for personal adornment, such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks.
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Jorge Majfud
Jorge Majfud (born 1969) is a Uruguayan American writer.
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Joseph Heath
Joseph Heath (born 1967) is a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto, where he was formerly the director of the Centre for Ethics.
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Kashless.org
Kashless.org was a Seattle, Washington-based web marketplace where everything was free.
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Keeping up with the Joneses
Keeping up with the Joneses is an idiom in many parts of the English-speaking world referring to the comparison to one's neighbor as a benchmark for social class or the accumulation of material goods.
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Ken Saro-Wiwa
Kenule Beeson "Ken" Saro-Wiwa (10 October 1941 – 10 November 1995) was a Nigerian writer, television producer, environmental activist, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goldman Environmental Prize.
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Keynesian economics
Keynesian economics (sometimes called Keynesianism) are the various macroeconomic theories about how in the short run – and especially during recessions – economic output is strongly influenced by aggregate demand (total demand in the economy).
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Libertarianism
Libertarianism (from libertas, meaning "freedom") is a collection of political philosophies and movements that uphold liberty as a core principle.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian activist who was the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule.
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Malaise
Malaise is a feeling of general discomfort, uneasiness or pain, often the first indication of an infection or other disease.
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Mark Achbar
Mark Achbar (born in Ottawa in 1955) is a Canadian filmmaker, best known for directing The Corporation and Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media.
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Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.
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Marxism
Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis that views class relations and social conflict using a materialist interpretation of historical development and takes a dialectical view of social transformation.
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Media culture
In cultural studies, media culture refers to the current Western capitalist society that emerged and developed from the 20th century, under the influence of mass media.
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Modernity
Modernity, a topic in the humanities and social sciences, is both a historical period (the modern era), as well as the ensemble of particular socio-cultural norms, attitudes and practices that arose in the wake of Renaissance, in the "Age of Reason" of 17th-century thought and the 18th-century "Enlightenment".
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Mottainai
Mottainai is a term of Japanese origin that has been used by environmentalists.
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Mr. Money Mustache
Mr.
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Mr. Robot
Mr.
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Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein (born May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization and of capitalism.
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Nation state
A nation state (or nation-state), in the most specific sense, is a country where a distinct cultural or ethnic group (a "nation" or "people") inhabits a territory and have formed a state (often a sovereign state) that they predominantly govern.
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Natural environment
The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial.
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New Scientist
New Scientist, first published on 22 November 1956, is a weekly, English-language magazine that covers all aspects of science and technology.
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No Logo
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies is a book by the Canadian author Naomi Klein.
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One-Dimensional Man
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society is a 1964 book by the philosopher Herbert Marcuse, in which the author offers a wide-ranging critique of both contemporary capitalism and the Communist society of the Soviet Union, documenting the parallel rise of new forms of social repression in both these societies, as well as the decline of revolutionary potential in the West.
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Oswald Spengler
Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler (29 May 1880 – 8 May 1936) was a German historian and philosopher of history whose interests included mathematics, science, and art.
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Overconsumption
Overconsumption is a situation where resource use has outpaced the sustainable capacity of the ecosystem.
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Philanthropy
Philanthropy means the love of humanity.
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Philosophy of futility
Philosophy of futility is a phrase coined in 1928 by Columbia University marketing professor Paul Nystrom to describe an increasingly prevalent outlook which, he believed, induced a greater demand for fashionable products.
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Planned obsolescence
Planned obsolescence, or built-in obsolescence, in industrial design and economics is a policy of planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life, so it will become obsolete (that is, unfashionable or no longer functional) after a certain period of time.
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Political sociology
Political sociology is concerned with the sociological analysis of political phenomena ranging from the State, to civil society, to the family, investigating topics such as citizenship, social movements, and the sources of social power.
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Pollution
Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change.
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Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI (Benedictus XVI; Benedetto XVI; Benedikt XVI; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger;; 16 April 1927) served as Pope and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2005 until his resignation in 2013.
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Position of trust
A position of trust is any position that requires its holder to enjoy the trust of those who elected or chose the holder.
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Post-consumerism
Post-consumerism is often suggesting that there is a growing willingness to assert that well-being, as distinct from material success, is the aim of life.
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Poverty
Poverty is the scarcity or the lack of a certain (variant) amount of material possessions or money.
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Privacy
Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves, or information about themselves, and thereby express themselves selectively.
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Producerism
Producerism is an ideology which holds that those members of society engaged in the production of tangible wealth are of greater benefit to society than, for example, aristocrats who inherit their wealth and station.
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Product placement
Product placement, also known as embedded marketing, is a marketing technique in which references to specific brands or products are incorporated into another work, such as a film or television program, with specific promotional intent.
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Productivism
Productivism or growthism is the belief that measurable economic productivity and growth are the purpose of human organization (e.g., work), and that "more production is necessarily good".
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Rationalization (psychology)
In psychology and logic, rationalization or rationalisation (also known as making excuses) is a defense mechanism in which controversial behaviors or feelings are justified and explained in a seemingly rational or logical manner to avoid the true explanation, and are made consciously tolerable—or even admirable and superior—by plausible means.
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Reason (magazine)
Reason is an American libertarian monthly magazine published by the Reason Foundation.
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Religion
Religion may be defined as a cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, world views, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements.
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Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
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Shareholder
A shareholder or stockholder is an individual or institution (including a corporation) that legally owns one or more shares of stock in a public or private corporation.
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Simple living
Simple living encompasses a number of different voluntary practices to simplify one's lifestyle.
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Social stratification
Social stratification is a kind of social differentiation whereby a society groups people into socioeconomic strata, based upon their occupation and income, wealth and social status, or derived power (social and political).
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Society
A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations.
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Spamming
Electronic spamming is the use of electronic messaging systems to send an unsolicited message (spam), especially advertising, as well as sending messages repeatedly on the same site.
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Status symbol
A status symbol is a perceived visible, external denotation of one's social position and perceived indicator of economic or social status.
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Steady-state economy
A steady-state economy is an economy consisting of a constant stock of physical wealth (capital) and a constant population size.
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Sut Jhally
Sut Jhally (born 1955) is a professor of communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, whose work focuses on cultural studies, advertising, media, and consumption.
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Telemarketing
Telemarketing (sometimes known as inside sales, or telesales in the UK and Ireland) is a method of direct marketing in which a salesperson solicits prospective customers to buy products or services, either over the phone or through a subsequent face to face or Web conferencing appointment scheduled during the call.
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Thames & Hudson
Thames & Hudson (also Thames and Hudson and sometimes T&H for brevity) is a publisher of illustrated books on art, architecture, design, and visual culture.
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The Corporation (2003 film)
The Corporation is a 2003 Canadian documentary film written by University of British Columbia law professor Joel Bakan, and directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott.
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The Theory of the Leisure Class
The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (1899), by Thorstein Veblen, is a treatise on economics and a detailed, social critique of conspicuous consumption, as a function of social class and of consumerism, derived from the social stratification of people and the division of labour, which are the social institutions of the feudal period (9th – 15th centuries) that have continued to the modern era.
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The Zeitgeist Movement
The Zeitgeist Movement is a non-profit organization established in the United States in 2008 by Peter Joseph.
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This Magazine
This Magazine is an independent alternative Canadian political magazine.
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Thomas Aquinas
Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church.
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Thorstein Veblen
Thorstein Bunde Veblen (born Torsten Bunde Veblen; July 30, 1857 – August 3, 1929), a Norwegian-American economist and sociologist, became famous as a witty critic of capitalism.
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Trade union
A trade union or trades union, also called a labour union (Canada) or labor union (US), is an organization of workers who have come together to achieve many common goals; such as protecting the integrity of its trade, improving safety standards, and attaining better wages, benefits (such as vacation, health care, and retirement), and working conditions through the increased bargaining power wielded by the creation of a monopoly of the workers.
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UN Chronicle
The UN Chronicle (formerly the UN Monthly Chronicle) is a quarterly publication of the Outreach Division of the United Nations Department of Public Information, reporting on issues such as human rights, economic development, peacekeeping, health, refugees, programs and activities of the UN and regional issues.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public research university with campuses in Vancouver and Kelowna, British Columbia.
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University of Colorado Boulder
The University of Colorado Boulder (commonly referred to as CU or Colorado) is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado, United States.
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University of Florida
The University of Florida (commonly referred to as Florida or UF) is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university on a campus in Gainesville, Florida.
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Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism is an ethical theory that states that the best action is the one that maximizes utility.
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Vaporwave
Vaporwave is a microgenre of electronic music and an Internet <!--- Multiple sources refer to it as an Internet meme, please discuss on talk before changing ---> meme that emerged in the early 2010s.
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War
War is a state of armed conflict between states, societies and informal groups, such as insurgents and militias.
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Warren Hern
Warren Martin Hern, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. (born 1938) is an American physician best known for performing late-term abortions.
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Waste picker
A waste picker is a person who salvages reusable or recyclable materials thrown away by others to sell or for personal consumption.
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What Would Jesus Buy?
What Would Jesus Buy? is a 2007 documentary film produced by Morgan Spurlock and directed by Rob VanAlkemade.
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William E. Rees
William Rees, FRSC (born December 18, 1943), is a professor at the University of British Columbia and former director of the School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) at UBC.
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William Rathje
William Laurens Rathje (July 1, 1945 – May 24, 2012) was an American archaeologist.
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Redirects here:
Anti consumerism, Anti-consumerist, Anticonsumerism, Enoughism.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-consumerism
