Where? Spaces and Spheres
摘要
This chapter examines the spheres in which subjects deploy their efforts. For some this was limited to literal consumption—what they and their families eat—and for others ethical consumption expanded to every single type of consumption, from what they buy, where they live, how they travel, and what clothes they wear. The findings in this chapter make evident that both care as exhibited in feeding and provisioning work and care as demonstrated through efforts of ethical consumption, including bearing witness, are disproportionally performed by women. There is also an analysis of how ethical consumption—with bearing witness as one way of enacting ethical consumption—could be interpreted as care work. The sociological, economic, and even political significance of what have traditionally been women’s contributions within the household is evidenced by the marginalization of unpaid domestic labor in economic measures and by the paltry scholarly literature on provisioning work and care work as valid economic contributions.