Sustainability in Art, Fashion and Wine
Critical Perspectives
(De Gruyter, 2024)
EME 2202
The art, fashion and wine industries are currently at various stages in their efforts to embrace and transition towards sustainability. While sustainability commitments are a necessary condition for progress, they are not sufficient. Instead, there is a need for sweeping transformative change that includes giving serious consideration to indigenous worldviews without recolonizing them.
Sustainability in Art, Fashion and Wine includes findings from recent research and contributes to a new understanding of familiar concepts such as sustainability, (de)colonization and corporate responsibility in the art, fashion and wine industries by adopting critical lenses and incorporating them with innovative perspectives on circular business models and digitalization. It endeavours to present remedies for effectively combating climate change and promoting social good.
While discussing specific issues such as sub-contracted labour, safe working conditions, living wages, environmental degradation, mismanaged waste, and more, the book argues that recognizing the significant role western colonization has played – and continues to play – in the developing world in our current conception of capitalism is itself unsustainable. To understand the true meaning of sustainability – to fully recognize the looming deadlines we face in combating the climate crisis and instituting sustainability as a new normal – the acceptance of a new conception of capitalism, one antithetical to colonization and exploitation, is required.
Contributors to this book address these issues by applying a critical studies approach to their respective chapters, allowing the book to set out what real sustainability could and should look like in the art, fashion and wine industries.
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Editor
Annamma Joy is the associate dean, Research and Professor of Marketing at UBC Okanagan. Before assuming her position in January 2008, she was a professor of Marketing at Concordia University in Montreal. She is an acknowledged expert on fashion, luxury brands, and art and some of her work has appeared in Financial Times 50 journals such as the Journal of Consumer Research and the Journal of Consumer Psychology.
Her research interests are primarily in the area of consumer behaviour and branding with a special focus on luxury brands, fashion brand experiences, wineries and wine tourism, consumer behaviour in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and aesthetic consumption. She has been a visiting scholar at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China-Europe International Business School, Shanghai, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, SDA Bocconi, Milan, the Helsinki School of Economics, and Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland.
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