عنوان

Geographies of commodity chains /

(Number (ISBN

0203448693

(Number (ISBN

0415339103

(Number (ISBN

9780203448694

(Number (ISBN

9780415339100

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b798558

Title Proper

Geographies of commodity chains /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Alex Hughes and Suzanne Reimer

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Routledge,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2004

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2004

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (x, 276 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations

Series Title

Routledge studies in human geography ;

Volume Designation

10

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

Introduction / Alex Hughes and Suzanne Reimer -- From farm to supermarket : the trade in fresh horticultural produce from Sub-Saharan Africa to the United Kingdom / Hazel R. Barrett, Angela W. Browne, and Brian W. Ilbery -- Are hogs like chickens? : enclosure and mechanization in two 'white meat' filières / Michael J. Watts -- Spilling the beans on a tough nut : liberalization and local supply system changes in Ghana's cocoa and shea chains / Niels Fold -- New geographies of agro-food chains : an analysis of UK quality assurance schemes / Carol Morris and Craig Young -- Culinary networks and cultural connections : a conventions perspective / Jon Murdoch and Mara Miele -- Initiating the commodity chain : South Asian women and fashion in the diaspora / Parvati Raghuram -- Geographical knowledges in the Ecuadorian flower industry / Justine Coulson -- Citrus, apartheid, and the struggle to (re)present outspan oranges / Charles Mather and Petrina Rowcroft -- Tropics of consumption : 'getting with the fetish' of 'exotic' fruit? / Ian Cook, Philip Crang, and Mark Thorpe -- Unravelling fashion's commodity chains / Louise Crewe -- Accounting for ethical trade : global commodity networks, virtualism and the audit economy / Alex Hughes -- The 'organic commodity' and other anomalies in the politics of consumption / Julie Guthman -- Knowledge, ethics and power in the home furnishings commodity chain / Suzanne Reimer and Deborah Leslie

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Individuals, consumer groups, nation states and supra-national bodies increasingly have interrogated the ethics of particular production and consumption relations such as GM foods. Flowing from and bound up with these political concerns is the growing interest in the mutual dependence of sites of (for example) production, distribution, retailing, design, advertising, marketing and final consumption. This timely volume draws together contributions concerned with the production, circulation and consumption of commodities. Not only do these case study examples seek to transcend older understandings of production and consumption, but they also explicitly tap into wider public debate about the meanings, origins and biographies of commodities. Taking a geographical approach to the analysis of links between producers and consumers, the book focuses upon the ways in which these ties increasingly are stretched across spaces and places. Critical engagements with the ways in which these spaces and places affect the economies, cultures and politics of the connections between producers and consumers are skilfully threaded through each section

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eBook Library

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EBL200715

Title

Geographies of commodity chains.

International Standard Book Number

0415339103

Commercial geography.

Commercial products.

Consumption (Economics)-- Moral and ethical aspects.

Physical distribution of goods.

Produce trade-- Environmental aspects.

Production (Economic theory)

Consommation (Économie politique)-- Aspect moral.

Distribution (Économie politique)

Géographie commerciale.

Production.

Produits agricoles-- Commerce.

Produits commerciaux.

Commercial geography.

Commercial products.

Consumption (Economics)-- Moral and ethical aspects.

Physical distribution of goods.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.

Produce trade-- Environmental aspects.

Production (Economic theory)

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Popular Culture.

POL-- 038000

SOC-- 002010

SOC-- 022000

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Hughes, Alex, (Alex Louise)

Reimer, Suzanne

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20201207110622.0

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