04403nam 22007694a 450 991096194480332120251116175616.01-134-30194-41-134-30195-20-203-69197-01-280-07729-80-203-44869-310.4324/9780203448694 (CKB)1000000000250251(EBL)200715(OCoLC)86174699(SSID)ssj0000297379(PQKBManifestationID)11223671(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000297379(PQKBWorkID)10332716(PQKB)10422116(MiAaPQ)EBC200715(Au-PeEL)EBL200715(CaPaEBR)ebr10098974(CaONFJC)MIL7729(OCoLC)56550794(EXLCZ)99100000000025025120031114d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGeographies of commodity chains /edited by Alex Hughes and Suzanne Reimer1st ed.New York Routledge20041 online resource (293 p.)Routledge studies in human geography ;10Description based upon print version of record.0-415-51403-7 0-415-33910-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Wilbery -- Are hogs like chickens? : enclosure and mechanization in two 'white meat' fileres / 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 production : an analysis of UK quality assurance schemes / Carol Morris and Craig Young -- Culinary networks and cultural connections : a conventions perspective / Jonathan 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 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.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 undRoutledge studies in human geography ;10.Commercial productsCommercial geographyConsumption (Economics)Moral and ethical aspectsProduce tradeEnvironmental aspectsPhysical distribution of goodsProduction (Economic theory)Commercial products.Commercial geography.Consumption (Economics)Moral and ethical aspects.Produce tradeEnvironmental aspects.Physical distribution of goods.Production (Economic theory)306.3/4Hughes Alex(Alex Louise)146861Reimer Suzanne1873738MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910961944803321Geographies of commodity chains4483931UNINA