Title
Fair Trade and Social Justice : Global Ethnographies / Mark Moberg; ed. by Sarah Lyon.
ISBN
9780814765005
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2010]
Copyright
©2010
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.18574/nyu/9780814796207.001.0001 doi
Call Number
HF1379 .F342 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
382.3
Summary
By 2008, total Fair Trade purchases in the developed world reached nearly $3 billion, a five-fold increase in four years. Consumers pay a "fair price" for Fair Trade items, which are meant to generate greater earnings for family farmers, cover the costs of production, and support socially just and environmentally sound practices. Yet constrained by existing markets and the entities that dominate them, Fair Trade often delivers material improvements for producers that are much more modest than the profound social transformations the movement claims to support.There has been scant real-world assessment of Fair Trade's effectiveness. Drawing upon fine-grained anthropological studies of a variety of regions and commodity systems including Darjeeling tea, coffee, crafts, and cut flowers, the chapters in Fair Trade and Social Justice represent the first works to use ethnographic case studies to assess whether the Fair Trade Movement is actually achieving its goals.Contributors: Julia Smith, Mark Moberg, Catherine Ziegler , Sarah Besky, Sarah M. Lyon, Catherine S. Dolan, Patrick C. Wilson, Faidra Papavasiliou, Molly Doane, Kathy M'Closkey, Jane Henrici
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 What's Fair?
PART I : GLOBAL MARKETS AND LOCAL REALITIES
2 Fair Trade and the Specialty Coffee Market
3 A New World?
4 Fair Flowers
5 Colonial Pasts and Fair Trade Futures
PART II : NEGOTIATING DIFFERENCE AND IDENTITY IN FAIR TRADE MARKETS
6 A Market of Our Own
7 Fractured Ties
8 Fair Trade Craft Production and Indigenous Economies
PART III : RELATIONSHIPS AND CONSUMPTION IN FAIR TRADE MARKETS AND ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIES
9 Fair Money, Fair Trade
10 Relationship Coffees
11 Novica, Navajo Knock-Offs, and the 'Net
12 Naming Rights
About the Contributors
Index
