The aim of this study was to identify whether there is a difference in the environmentally-conscious consumer behavior (ECCB) of a region directly impacted by an environmental tragedy, as compared to ...the ECCB of non-impacted regions. We empirically tested the main argument of the protection motivation theory, through the design of a structural model, based on the literature, that was estimated with cross-sectional data, which allowed us to distinguish the effects of both green behavior and perceived consumer effectiveness on the ECCB from both regions. Our model also considers the antecedents of both green behavior and perceived consumer effectiveness, thereby attempting to accurately model the complex process of forming the ECCB in a context of environmental tragedy. Using a sample of 420 individuals from an impacted region, and 394 individuals from non-impacted regions, results show that perceived consumer effectiveness affects the ECCB only in the impacted region. In this region, perceived consumer effectiveness is strongly influenced by ecological attitudes compared to environmental concern and external motivators. Conversely, green behavior affects the ECCB more in the non-impacted regions. Our evidence suggests that, after experiencing an environmental tragedy, consumers began to reflect on the effects of their consumption, which in turn influenced the ECCB. However, the effect of their green actions on their consumption behavior seems to decrease in the impacted region relative to the non-impacted regions.
The world’s oceans face total ecological collapse by 2048 if the fishing industries’ extraction is not reined in. At the helm of the ocean crisis have been fisheries management regimes built upon the ...logic of the tragedy of the commons, which interpret resource depletion as being driven by human self-interest, and then propose market-based policy solutions. This comparative case study tests the generalizability of the tragedy of the commodity, a political economic theory of fishery collapse that challenges the tragedy of the commons by applying it to the case of the 1992 Newfoundland cod fishery collapse. A model for incorporating a distinct analysis of state structures, actions, and interests is then proposed.
The lurker in the object Rose, Alexander S
Consumption, markets and culture,
06/2020, Letnik:
23, Številka:
3
Journal Article
Recenzirano
A peculiar note from a neighbor of a consumer culture theorist stationed at Miskatonic University who has gone missing arrives for you. The Arkham police have tasked the neighbor with sorting out ...some seemingly-incoherent academic notes left behind by the professor. In particular, they have tasked him with reaching out to you in order to determine the meaning of a peculiar phrase, “the lurker waits in the object” scrawled into the missing professor's desk. The notes concern several topics, but seem, in the neighbor's opinion, to revolve around object-oriented ontology, horror reality, genre horror, and information by allusion. The neighbor emphasizes that the missing professor may have suffered some mental illness or other tragedy, but has no other viable leads aside from the phrase and notes and begs your expert advice on the topic.
Dans la Médée de Pierre Corneille, la figure de Médée, mère infanticide, a déjà fait l’objet de nombreux commentaires qui permettent de mieux comprendre la première tragédie de cet auteur. Toutefois, ...le personnage de Jason, encore souvent sous-estimé, me paraît également essentiel pour saisir la signification de cette pièce. C’est pourquoi cet article vise à aborder, sous l’angle de l’Argonaute, l’oeuvre qui porte le nom de son épouse, Médée, en se posant, entre autres, les questions suivantes: Qui est le héros tragique de cette pièce? Quel est le rôle de Jason dans la progression dramatique? Comment Corneille se réapproprie-t-il ce sujet déjà traité par Euripide et Sénèque? Cette tragédie n’interroge-t-elle pas d’abord l’humanité de Jason avant la monstruosité de Médée ? Voici autant de pistes auxquelles nous allons tenter de répondre par une relecture de la pièce doublée d’outils de recherche logométrique. Abstract In Pierre Corneille’s Medea, the figure of Medea, the infanticidal mother, has already been the subject of numerous comments that help us to better understand this author’s first tragedy. However, the character of Jason, still often underestimated, also seems to me essential to grasp the meaning of this play. This is why this article aims to approach, from the perspective of the Argonaut, the work that bears his wife's name, Medea, by asking the following questions, among others: Who is the tragic hero of this play? What is Jason’s role in the dramatic progression? How does Cornelius reappropriate this subject, already dealt with by Euripides and Seneca? Doesn’t this tragedy first question Jason’s humanity before Medea’s monstrosity? Here are some of the questions we will try to answer by rereading the play and using logometric research tools.
With close readings of suppliant dramas by each of the major playwrights, this book explores how Greek tragedy used tales of foreign supplicants to promote, question, and negotiate the imperial ...ideology of Athens as a benevolent and moral ruling city.
This book further develops Professor Seaford's innovative work on the study of ritual and money in the developing Greek polis. It employs the concept of the chronotope, which refers to the phenomenon ...whereby the spatial and temporal frameworks explicit or implicit in a text have the same structure, and uncovers various such chronotopes in Homer, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Presocratic philosophy and in particular the tragedies of Aeschylus. Mikhail Bakhtin's pioneering use of the chronotope was in literary analysis. This study by contrast derives the variety of chronotopes manifest in Greek texts from the variety of socially integrative practices in the developing polis - notably reciprocity, collective ritual and monetised exchange. In particular, the Oresteia of Aeschylus embodies the reassuring absorption of the new and threatening monetised chronotope into the traditional chronotope that arises from collective ritual with its aetiological myth. This argument includes the first ever demonstration of the profound affinities between Aeschylus and the (Presocratic) philosophy of his time.
•Intergenerational discounting is a serious obstacle to climate action.•We examine discounting tendencies in a climate change cooperation game.•Discounting reduced peoples willingness to cooperate ...with future generations.•Activating peoples drive to leave a positive legacy reduced discounting tendencies.•Legacy promoting instruments should be used to facilitate climate action.
Climate change will have dangerous impacts on future generations. Accordingly, people in the present have an obligation to make sacrifices for the benefit of future others. However, research on temporal and social discounting shows that people are short-sighted and selfish—they prefer immediate over delayed benefits, and they prefer benefits for themselves over others. Discounting over long-term time horizons is known as intergenerational discounting, and is a major obstacle to climate action. Here, we examine whether persuasive messages that activate the legacy motive—the desire to build a positive legacy—can increase the willingness of current actors to make sacrifices for future generations. Using a climate change public goods game, we find that when the benefits of cooperation accrue to decision makers in the present, high levels of cooperation are sustained, whereas when the benefits accrue to future generations, intergenerational discounting makes cooperation elusive. Crucially, when the legacy motive is activated—by promoting death awareness, feelings of power asymmetry, and intergenerational reciprocity—intergenerational discounting is attenuated, and cooperation is restored. Our results suggest climate action can be fostered by framing climate change as an intergenerational dilemma, and by crafting persuasive messages that activate people’s drive to leave a positive legacy.
How can consumers be encouraged to take better care of public goods? Across four studies, including two experiments in the field and three documenting actual behaviors, the authors demonstrate that ...increasing consumers’ individual psychological ownership facilitates stewardship of public goods. This effect occurs because feelings of ownership increase consumers’ perceived responsibility, which then leads to active behavior to care for the good. Evidence from a variety of contexts, including a public lake with kayakers, a state park with skiers, and a public walking path, suggests that increasing psychological ownership enhances both effortful stewardship, such as picking up trash from a lake, and financial stewardship, such as donating money. This work further demonstrates that the relationship between psychological ownership and resulting stewardship behavior is attenuated when there are cues, such as an attendance sign, which diffuse responsibility among many people. This work offers implications for consumers, practitioners, and policy makers with simple interventions that can encourage consumers to be better stewards of public goods.
Pompey’s character in Lucan’s Bellum Civile provokes the same emotions as the tragic hero. Like an Aristotelian tragic hero, Pompey is condemned by fate but also exhibits certain defects which lead ...to his defeat and murder. Lucan focuses on the flaws of indecision and ambition which contribute to the general’s fall from his illustrious position. Although Pompey is intellectually and morally imperfect after the Battle of Pharsalus, he shows signs of improvement in both respects. At his assassination, moreover, Pompey accepts his place within fate, faces death magnanimously, and carries on the resistance against Caesar even after death.
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