Geographies of commodity chains / edited by Alex Hughes and Suzanne Reimer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hughes, Alex (Alex Louise)

Reimer, Suzanne.

Series:

Routledge studies in human geography ; 10.

Routledge studies in human geography ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commercial products.

Commercial geography.

Consumption (Economics)--Moral and ethical aspects.

Consumption (Economics).

Produce trade--Environmental aspects.

Produce trade.

Physical distribution of goods.

Production (Economic theory).

Physical Description:

x, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, [2004]

Summary:

"Geographies of Commodity Chains" 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. The book takes a geographical approach to the analysis of links between producers and consumers, focusing on 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 threaded through each section.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415339103

OCLC:

53443067