1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459737203321

Autore

Smith Toby M.

Titolo

The myth of green marketing : tending our goats at the edge of apocalypse / / Toby M. Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, Ontario ; ; Buffalo, New York ; ; London, England : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1998

©1998

ISBN

1-4426-5742-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 p.)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

658.802

Soggetti

Green marketing

Consumption (Economics) - Environmental aspects

Industrialization - Environmental aspects

Environmental degradation

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- 1. Theoretical Considerations -- 2. Resignification of 'Consume' -- 3. The Environmental Movement and Consumerism -- 4. Green Consumerism -- 5. Analysis of Examples -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

In this groundbreaking study, Toby Smith analyses the role that social myths such as green marketing play in public understanding of the environmental crisis. This book introduces the concept of hegemony into environmental politics, using the concept to elucidate the political, economic, and social alliance that sustains our belief in industrial expansionism. The ecological crisis of the late twentieth century presents a challenge to the very foundations of this alliance. The hegemonic system reacts to a threat to its structure by producing social myths that provide a common sense understanding of the threat. Smith examines one such social myth, the contemporary phenomenon known as green marketing, and how it came to reinforce, rather than challenge, the ethics of productivism. By analysing green marketing as



it relates primarily to the early 1990s corporate campaigns of companies such as McDonald's, Shell Chemicals, and Mobil Chemical Co., Smith demonstrates how these voices weave together an understanding of green consumerism using familiar language from economic and liberal democratic discourses. The Myth of Green Marketing is an original and important contribution to the field of environmental studies. As the first book on green marketing, it is sure to raise controversy with its unique discussion of the cultural and social aspects of environmental issues.

2.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00179065

Titolo

Mercanti scrittori : ricordi nella Firenze tra Medioevo e Rinascimento. Paolo D a Certaldo, Giovanni Morelli, Bonaccorso Pitti e Domenico Lenzi, Donato Velluti,  Goro Dati, Francesco Datini, Lapo Niccolini, Bernardo Machiavelli / a cura di V ittore Branca

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano, : Rusconi, 1986 - LXXXIII, 603 p. ; 21 cm

ISBN

88-18-12033-6

Soggetti

CULTURA - Storia - Medioevo

FIRENZE - Storia - Sec. 13.-16

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia