Sustainability in Art, Fashion and Wine: Critical Perspectives

The art, fashion and wine industries are currently at various stages in their efforts to embrace and transition towards sustainability. While sustainability commitments are a necessary condition for progress, they are not sufficient. Instead, there is a need for sweeping transformative change that includes giving serious consideration to indigenous worldviews without recolonizing them. Sustainability in Art, Fashion and Wine includes findings from recent research and contributes to a new understanding of familiar concepts such as sustainability, (de)colonization and corporate responsibility in the art, fashion and wine industries by adopting critical lenses and incorporating them with innovative perspectives on circular business models and digitalization. It endeavors to present remedies for effectively combating climate change and promoting social good. While discussing specific issues such as sub-contracted labor, safe working conditions, living wages, environmental degradation, mismanaged waste, and more, the book argues that recognizing the significant role western colonization has played - and continues to play - in the developing world in our current conception of capitalism is itself unsustainable. To understand the true meaning of sustainability - to fully recognize the looming deadlines we face in combating the climate crisis and instituting sustainability as a new normal - the acceptance of a new conception of capitalism, one antithetical to colonization and exploitation, is required. Contributors to this book address these issues by applying a critical studies approach to their respective chapters, allowing the book to set out what real sustainability could and should look like in the art, fashion and wine industries.

Annamma Joy is Professor of Marketing at the Faculty of Management, UBC. Her research spans the domains of art, fashion, and fine wines. She has won several awards for her research, the most recent being the Louis Vuitton and Singapore management university award (second place) for best paper at the Luxury brand conference in 2018. Her work has been published in the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Business Research, Consumption, Markets and Culture, Journal of Consumer Culture, Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, Tourism Recreation Research, Journal of Wine Research and Arts and the Market.
She has written several chapters in handbooks on consumption and marketing. She has published an edited book, The Future of Marketing, published by De Gruyter, in 2022 and another one New Directions in Art, Fashion and Wine, published by Lexington Books in 2023.