ABSTRACT
Chapter 5 locates the Slow Movement – especially slow food and tourism – within the larger practice of ethical consumption. In doing so it looks at shopping and consumption from both political and ethical standpoints. Politically slow food and slow tourism both act to perform alternative practices that challenge dominant patterns of global food and tourism consumption. In that manner they amount to an act of personal politics and life-making. From an ethical standpoint, however, slow food and tourism remain problematic in that rather than amounting to a cosmopolitan ethic of care, they cannot escape the more dominant neoliberal ethic of choice.
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