I Want What I Want- Period! Our Consumption of Corporate Harms

Abstract

There is a relative bankruptcy of critical criminological scholarship that acknowledges the underpinnings of a hyper-consumer society and our willful and/or inadvertent legitimation of corporate power and subsequent harms. If we look deeper into our consumption and the mundane choices we make, our role in the faciliation of crimes of the powerful becomes frighteningly apparent. We argue here that in our everyday lives, our consumption of propaganda of fear and the hegomonic discourse of security, our technofetishism for the latest consumer electronic gadgets, our consumption of fashion and food, and a host of other actions and choices are done without thinking of how we are complicit in the perpetual cycle of harms and violence of corporations.