Geographies of Commodity Chains (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Hughes, Alex; Reimer, Suzanne

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Not only do the case study examples included in this volume transcend older understandings of production and consumption, they also explicitly tap into wider public debate about the meanings, origins, and biographies of commodities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134301942
• Artikelnr.: 47884761

Autorenporträt

Alex Hughes, Suzanne Reimer

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Part 1: Commodity Chains, Networks and Filières 1. From
Farm to Supermarket: The Trade in Fresh Horticultural Produce from
Sub-Saharan Africa to the United Kingdom 2. Are Hogs like Chickens?
Enclosure and Mechanization in Two 'White Meat' Filières 3. Spilling the
Beans on a Tough Nut: Liberalisation and Local Supply System Changes in
Ghana's Cocoa and Shea Chains Part 2: Commodity Chains and Cultural
Connections 4. New Geographies of Agro-Food Production: An Analysis of UK
Quality Assurance Schemes 5. Culinary Networks and Cultural Connections: A
Conventions Perspective 6. Initiating the Commodity Chain: South Asian
Women and Fashion in the Diaspora Part 3: Commodities, Representations and
the Politics of the Producer-Consumer Relation 7. Geographical Knowledges
in the Ecuadorian Flower Industry 8. Citrus, Apartheid and the Struggle to
(Re)present Outspan Oranges 9. Tropics of Consumption: 'Getting with the
Fetish' of 'Exotic' Fruit? Part 4: Ethical Commodity Chains and the
Politics of Consumption 10. Unravelling Fashion's Commodity Chains 11.
Accounting for Ethical Trade: Global Commodity Networks, Virtualism and the
Audit Economy 12. The 'Organic Commodity' and Other Anomalies in the
Politics of Consumption 13. Knowledge, Ethics and Power in the Home
Furnishings Commodity Chain