Consumption of ecological products and social inequalities. The Tunisian case

The study demonstrates the Tunisian public's ignorance that ecological products exist on the local market as well as the public's willingness to consume them. This preference results from a growing awareness of ecological issues as well as a perceived need to get involved vis-a-vis the environment and the community. It is also depending on the individual's financial and cultural capitals. The question is whether ecological products remain a luxury and a privilege restricted to the affluent social class. Despite its noble cause, the environmentalist issue can escape neither from class categorization nor from the reproduction of social injustices. As a result, traditional conceptions and relations between the economic and social spaces and the environmental space need to be reconsidered.