• Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers is a 2003 Swedish documentary film on consumerism and globalization, created by director Erik Gandini and editor...
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    Debray.[citation needed] Surplus: Terrorized into Being Consumers from 2003 is a film odyssey about the destructive sides of consumer culture, shot in Sweden...
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    in a judo throw. The image has since been turned into a stamp in Ukraine. Banksy was accused of being "inconsistent with honest practices" when trying...
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    the society of the spectacle, commodities rule the workers and consumers, instead of being ruled by them; in this way, individuals become passive subjects...
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    Corporation (2003), by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott, and Surplus: Terrorized into Being Consumers (2003), by Erik Gandini. Anti-consumerist beliefs are in...
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    with consumers since at least 1912 primarily in the domain of home improvement and maintenance activities. The phrase "do it yourself" had come into common...
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    Buy Nothing Day (category Consumer boycotts)
    holiday foothold". Toronto Observer. Retrieved October 6, 2023. "Group Asks Consumers to Buy Nothing". ABC News. November 27, 2002. Retrieved October 6, 2023...
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    all consumers. The not-so-wealthy consumers can "purchase something new that will speak of their place in the tradition of affluence". A consumer can...
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    to disrupt the unconscious thought process that takes place when most consumers view a popular advertising and bring about a détournement. Activists that...
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    Decisions". Journal of Consumer Research. 37 (4): 584–598. doi:10.1086/653494. George, Babu; Gallayanee Yaoyuneyong (2010). "Young Consumers: Insight and Ideas...
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  • to commodities that consumers are unable to be fully aware of; fully informed decisions are almost impossible to make. Consumers see the images that sellers...
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  • purposely tries to make its older products obsolete in order to coax consumers into buying new ones." As of January 2018, 32 class action lawsuits had been...
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  • down-shifting point to consumerism as a primary source of stress and dissatisfaction because it creates a society of individualistic consumers who measure both...
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  • held in some cities in Canada) promoting "taste education" educating consumers about the risks of fast food educating citizens about the drawbacks of...
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  • of affluence and influenza, and is used most commonly by critics of consumerism. Some psychologists consider it to be a pseudo-scientific term, however...
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  • characteristics of hyperconsumerism is the constant pursuit of novelty, encouraging consumers to buy new and discard the old, seen particularly in fashion, where the...
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    Conspicuous consumption (category Consumerism)
    consumption is being incorporated into social media platforms which is impacting consumer behaviour. During periods of economic downturn, consumers tend to turn...
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  • readers to regain control of culture, encouraging them to ask "Are we consumers and citizens?" Since Adbusters concludes that advertising conditions people...
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  • sold in the EU (and not used predominantly in wet conditions) so that consumers can easily remove and replace batteries themselves. The ultimate examples...
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  • Sustainable consumer behavior is the sub-discipline of consumer behavior that studies why and how consumers do or do not incorporate sustainability priorities...
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  • adulthood, it is often recognized as a problem later in life. Unlike normal consumers and hoarders, who derive excitement and focus on the items purchased,...
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  • from various U.N. councils. More broadly, many Americans have a feeling of being forgotten or swept up by globalization and its lasting effects, according...
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    supplies in times of crisis. While initially driven majorly by automotive consumers protection agencies and the automotive after sales service industry, the...
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    Local food (or locavore) movements aim to connect food producers and consumers in the same geographic region, to develop more self-reliant and resilient...
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    strategies as it targets a certain type of consumers. Unlike fast fashion consumers, slow fashion consumers expect classic and timeless pieces of clothes...
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  • organization encouraged consumers to dispose waste in designated areas. There is a growing recognition that human well-being is interwoven with the natural...
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    [citation needed] Key themes are technology, time, individuation, consumerism, consumer capitalism, technological convergence, digitization, Americanization...
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    Philosophies group seeking a "philosophical revolution". This brought them into contact with the Surrealists, Dadaists, and other groups, before they moved...
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    Throw-away society (category Consumerism)
    (2003). A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America. Whiteley, Nigel (1987). "Toward a Throw-Away Culture. Consumerism, 'Style...
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