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Replacing actual political activism with ethical shopping: The case of Oatly
Department of Culture and Learning, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Örebro University, School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences. Department of Media and Communication.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3295-3602
2020 (English)In: Discourse, Context & Media, ISSN 2211-6958, E-ISSN 2211-6966, Vol. 34, article id 100344Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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There has been an increase of food products marketed through buzzwords like organic, 'local', 'recyclable', 'Fair-trade'. These have been described as part of a newer kind of ethical or emotional capitalism, where consumers can align with political issues through acts of shopping. The problem is that such acts replace or shape what we know about, and how we act towards, actual socio-political matters. In this paper, we look at one example of such a product: Oatly, a milk alternative, which brands itself as sustainable and anti-corporate. Taking a Multimodal Critical Discourse Analytical approach, we want to learn more about how such brands do not actually state details of the socio-political issue alongside which they align (its causes, process, solutions) yet successfully communicate a compelling sense that buying the product is a form of social activism in a way which cleverly implicates consumers to internalize its values and give them a powerful sense of being part of a political moral order. And this is a form of activism which is fun, chic and rather easy.

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Elsevier, 2020. Vol. 34, article id 100344
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-81807DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2019.100344ISI: 000528519300003Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85073076824OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-81807DiVA, id: diva2:1429643
Available from: 2020-05-12 Created: 2020-05-12 Last updated: 2020-05-12Bibliographically approved

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