Kim Humphery

Karin M Ekström and Kay Glans (eds), Beyond the Consumption Bubble

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 03-2015

DOI: 10.1177/1469540514526802

Art-Based Social Enterprise, Young Creatives and the Forces of Marginalisation

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Date: 2022

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-10925-6

Everyday life after downshifting: Consumption, thrift, and inequality

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 29-05-2020

DOI: 10.1111/1745-5871.12396

Ethics and Morality in Consumption

Publisher: Routledge

Date: 14-04-2016

DOI: 10.4324/9781315764320

Ambivalent entrepreneurs: arts-based social enterprise in a neoliberal world

Publisher: Emerald

Date: 30-03-2020

DOI: 10.1108/SEJ-03-2019-0015

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to consider the social turn in contemporary capitalism and contemporary art through the lens of art-based social enterprises (ASEs) that aim to create positive social benefits for young people experiencing forms of marginalisation, and which trade creative products or services to help fulfil that mission. A growth in ASEs demonstrates a growing interest in how the arts can support social and economic development, and the ways new economic models can generate employment for in iduals excluded from the labour market extend opportunities for more people to participate in art markets and challenge dominant market models of cultural production and consumption. This paper considers a number of challenges and complexities faced by ASEs that embrace a co-dependence of three goals, which are often in tension and competition – artistic practice, social purpose and economic activity. It does so by analysing interviews from staff working with 12 ASE organisation’s across Australia. While the external forces that shape ASEs – including government policy, markets, investors and philanthropy – are interested in the “self-sufficient” economic potential of ASEs, those working in ASEs tend to prioritise social values and ethical business over large financial returns and are often ambivalent about their roles as entrepreneurs. This ambivalence is symptomatic of a position that is simultaneously critical and affirmative, of the conditions of contemporary capitalism and neoliberalism. This paper addresses a gap in social enterprise literature presenting empirical research focussing on the lived experience of those managing and leading ASEs in Australia.

Affluence, Anti-Consumerism, and the Politics of Consumption

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Date: 11-12-2018

DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780190695583.013.33

Abstract: This chapter explores “anti-consumerist” critique and practice as articulated in a range of Western nations over the last two decades. It surveys the rise of a twenty-first-century consumption politics, identifying how it has coalesced around opposition to consumerism and overconsumption, while remaining elusive in the extent to which it advocates substantive social and economic change and in the degree to which it rejects or embraces consumption as an arena of agency. The chapter explores this ambiguity through discussion of two interconnected forms of recent consumption politics—“responsible” consumer choice and “alternative” enterprise—outlining the fractured and tenuous ways in which these practices speak of contestation and of the emancipatory in relation to consumption and consumer economies. The chapter concludes by recognizing the conceptual and ideological limits of contemporary consumption politics, while insisting also that it has significantly expanded the political and ethical sensibilities through which we understand the commodity and its impact.

Downshifting to care: The role of gender and care in reducing working hours and consumption

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 08-2020

DOI: 10.1016/J.GEOFORUM.2020.06.003

RMIT University

Location: Australia

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Charles Darwin University

Location: Australia

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Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0349045

Start Date: 08-2003

End Date: 07-2006

Amount: $315,636.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0450469

Start Date: 02-2004

End Date: 06-2007

Amount: $72,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP130100813

Start Date: 2013

End Date: 12-2019

Amount: $326,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP170100547

Start Date: 02-2017

End Date: 11-2021

Amount: $337,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

(The Rise Of Ethical Consumption In Australia: From The Margins To The Mainstream)

Start Date: 2013

End Date: 2015

Funder: Australian Research Council