Abstract
How we feel about our behaviour is central to our identity. Using Brouwer and Houser-Marko's (2017) theorisation of the “self-as-doer”, this study aims to provide a contextualised account of how tourists’ emotions influence their ethically motivated self-enactment practices (doings and saying). In doing so, we elucidate the performative and governing roles emotions play in framing, maintaining, and promoting ethically motivated consumption practices that are deemed reflective of one’s ethical identity position. We demonstrate how identity claims (sayings) convert into doings (practices), which helps address the attitude-behaviour gap evident in ethical studies. In this chapter, we propose that it is only through an analysis of tourists’ self-enactment practices that we can begin to understand the link between emotions, action and ethically motivated identity positions.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Research Handbook on Ethical Consumption |
Subtitle of host publication | Contemporary Research in Responsible and Sustainable Consumer Behaviour |
Editors | Marylyn Carrigan, Victoria Wells, Karolos Papadas |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. |
Chapter | 3 |
Pages | 33-50 |
Number of pages | 18 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781802202021 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781802202014 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 11 May 2023 |
Keywords
- Tourism
- Ethical consumption
- Identity
- Emotions
- Self-enactment
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Social Sciences
- General Environmental Science
- General Energy
- General Business,Management and Accounting