Consumer in the world-systems: understanding narratives on environmental and social impacts of consumption from Melbourne, Australia.
In this thesis I set to examine, through the lenses of world-systems and ecological unequal exchange theories, stories of how individuals relate to their consumption and its environmental and social impacts. I will examine how people relate to these issues through a particular perspective of a consumer identity. I could observe, from various statistical data, that the metropolises of Australia bea
