Geographies of Commodity Chains

by Alex Hughes (Editor), Suzanne Reimer (Editor)

Overview

Broad geographical coverage including case-studies from North American, European and developing studies contexts

Timely, in view of increased popular and policy interest in the international origins of the commodities we buy and the often hidden environmental and social impacts of their production

All chapters make an explicit and clear contribution to theorisations of the commodity chain

Covers a wide range of products including food, flowers, home furnishings and clothing

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134301942
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/31/2004
Series:	Routledge Studies in Human Geography
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Alex Hughes, Suzanne Reimer

Table of Contents

1. Introduction Part 1: Commodity Chains, Networks and Filières 1. From Farm to Supermarket: The Trade in Fresh Horticultural Produce from Sub-Saharan Africa to the United Kingdom 2. Are Hogs like Chickens? Enclosure and Mechanization in Two 'White Meat' Filières 3. Spilling the Beans on a Tough Nut: Liberalisation and Local Supply System Changes in Ghana's Cocoa and Shea Chains Part 2: Commodity Chains and Cultural Connections 4. New Geographies of Agro-Food Production: An Analysis of UK Quality Assurance Schemes 5. Culinary Networks and Cultural Connections: A Conventions Perspective 6. Initiating the Commodity Chain: South Asian Women and Fashion in the Diaspora Part 3: Commodities, Representations and the Politics of the Producer-Consumer Relation 7. Geographical Knowledges in the Ecuadorian Flower Industry 8. Citrus, Apartheid and the Struggle to (Re)present Outspan Oranges 9. Tropics of Consumption: 'Getting with the Fetish' of 'Exotic' Fruit? Part 4: Ethical Commodity Chains and the Politics of Consumption 10. Unravelling Fashion's Commodity Chains 11. Accounting for Ethical Trade: Global Commodity Networks, Virtualism and the Audit Economy 12. The 'Organic Commodity' and Other Anomalies in the Politics of Consumption 13. Knowledge, Ethics and Power in the Home Furnishings Commodity Chain