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Pop the bubble
Change consumer behaviour
Change corporate behaviour

Target the right brand
Show the violence
Embody exploitation
Include suffering kids
Juxtapose extremes
Bring managers into view
Blame, shame & guilt
Hold ’em accountable
Suggest concrete action
Encourage a boycott

Wow 💥 WTF?
Capitalism is sh*t
I’m so angry
This is disgusting
I gotta do something
I won’t buy it
Oh shut up
Attack your critics
Liar! Fraud!
LOL capitalism
Who to believe?
There is no alternative
It could be worse

Now we’re talking
Activism is publicised
I shop differently now
Workers suffer
Can’t tell


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Bananas!*
Employee visualisation appendage
Ghosts
Girl model
Ilha das Flores
Maquilapolis
Mangetout
Primark – on the rack
The true cost
UDITA


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Show capitalist evils

IN BRIEF

What’s this page?

This is a placeholder intention page that, once finished, will explain this intention, illustrate it with reference to comments taken from relevant followthethings.com example pages, and will give a clickable sense of the tactics, responses and impacts that go with this intention.


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Lilie Chouliaraki (2010) Post-humanitarianism: humanitarian communication beyond a politics of pity. International journal of cultural studies 3(2), 107–126 

Ian Cook et al (2002) Commodities: the DNA of capitalism. https://followtheblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/commodities_dna.pdf (last accessed 3 June 2024)

Ian Cook & Tara Woodyer (2012) Lives of things. in Eric Sheppard, Trevor Barnes & Jamie Peck (eds) The Wiley Blackwell companion to economic geography. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 226-241

Stephen Duncombe (2012) It stands on its head: commodity fetishism, consumer activism, and the strategic use of fantasy. Culture & Organization 18(5), 359-375

Elaine Hartwick (2000) Towards a geographical politics of consumption Environment & planning A 32(7), 1177-92

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