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Titolo: Geographies of commodity chains / / edited by Alex Hughes and Suzanne Reimer Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (293 p.)
Disciplina: 306.3/4
Soggetto topico: Commercial products
Commercial geography
Consumption (Economics) - Moral and ethical aspects
Produce trade - Environmental aspects
Physical distribution of goods
Production (Economic theory)
Altri autori: HughesAlex (Alex Louise)  
ReimerSuzanne  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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 und
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ISBN: 1-134-30194-4
1-134-30195-2
0-203-69197-0
1-280-07729-8
0-203-44869-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910783714303321
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Serie: Routledge studies in human geography ; ; 10.