Geographies of commodity chains [electronic resource] / edited by Alex Hughes and Suzanne Reimer.
Contributor(s): Hughes, Alex (Alex Louise) | Reimer, Suzanne | ebrary, Inc.
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BookSeries: Routledge studies in human geography: 10.Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2004Description: x, 276 p. : ill., map.Subject(s): Commercial products | Commercial geography | Consumption (Economics) -- Moral and ethical aspects | Produce trade -- Environmental aspects | Physical distribution of goods | Production (Economic theory)Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306.3/4 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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