Emotion, action and tourists' ethically motivated self-identity enactment behaviours

Sheila Malone and Scott McCabe

Chapter 3 in Research Handbook on Ethical Consumption, 2023, pp 33-50 from Edward Elgar Publishing

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.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Environment; Geography; Sociology and Social Policy; Sustainable Development Goals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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