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Elias Canetti was born in 1905 in Bulgaria. After formal education in England and on the Continent, he settled in Vienna as a writer whose work – several plays and a novel – was noted for its mordant insight into the human condition.

Introduction

In Foucauldian organization studies, a shift of emphasis has taken place from the ‘hermeneutics of suspicion’ (Ricoeur, 2008) – uncovering modes of subjugation behind the smokescreen of individual freedom – towards the task of discovering potentials of agency, change and resistance (Raffnsøe et al., 2022; Randall and Munro, 2010; McKinlay and Taylor, 2014; Paulsson, 2011).

Introduction

From protecting consumer rights to promoting environmental justice, consumer activism has become an important source of protest. Consumer activism[1] here does not so much speak of a specific, organised movement, but of consumption practices as a locus of struggles for environmental sustainability and global equity (Bost