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Fair trade : humanitarianism in the age of postcolonial globalization / Peter van Dam.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dam, Peter van, 1981- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anti-globalization movement--History.
- Anti-globalization movement.
- International trade--Social aspects.
- International trade.
- Postcolonialism--Economic aspects.
- Postcolonialism.
- Humanitarianism--Economic aspects.
- Humanitarianism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 255 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- The fair trade movement has been one of the most enduring and successful civic initiatives to come out of the 1960s. In the first transnational history of the movement, Peter van Dam charts its ascendance and highlights how activists attempted to transform the global market in the aftermath of decolonization. Through original archival research into the trade of handicrafts, sugar, paper, coffee and clothes, van Dam demonstrates how the everyday, material aspects of fair trade activism connected the international politics of decolonization with the daily realities of people across the globe. He explores the different scales at which activists operated and the instruments they employed in the pursuit of more equitable economic relations between the global South and North. Through careful analysis of a now ubiquitous global movement, van Dam provides a vital new lens through which to view the history of humanitarianism in the age of postcolonial globalization.
- Contents:
- Introduction. Shaping postcolonial globalization from below
- Handicrafts : humanitarianism after empire
- Sugar : goodbye to grand politics
- Paper : the politics of everyday life
- Coffee : turning towards the market
- Clothes : activism in a network society
- Conclusion. Humanitarianism in the era of postcolonial globalization.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 May 2025).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-009-58623-8
- 1-009-58627-0
- 1-009-58628-9
- OCLC:
- 1517896923
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