Commodity Chains draws together contributions concerned with the production, circulation, and consumption of commodities.
Author(s): Alex Hughes
Edition: 1
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 288
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of illustrations......Page 8
Notes on contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
Commodity chains, networks and filires......Page 30
From farm to supermarket: the trade in fresh horticultural produce from sub-Saharan Africa to the United Kingdom......Page 32
Are hogs like chickens? Enclosure and mechanization in two 'white meat' filires......Page 52
Spilling the beans on a tough nut: liberalization and local supply system changes in Ghana's cocoa and shea chains......Page 76
Commodity chains and cultural connections......Page 94
New geographies of agro-food chains: an analysis of UK quality assurance schemes......Page 96
Culinary networks and cultural connections: a conventions perspective......Page 115
Initiating the commodity chain: South Asian women and fashion in the diaspora......Page 133
Commodities, representations and the politics of the producer consumer relation......Page 150
Geographical knowledges in the Ecuadorian flower industry......Page 152
Citrus, apartheid and the struggle to (re)present Outspan oranges......Page 169
Tropics of consumption: 'getting with the fetish' of 'exotic' fruit?......Page 186
Ethical commodity chains and the politics of consumption......Page 206
Unravelling fashion's commodity chains......Page 208
Accounting for ethical trade: global commodity networks, virtualism and the audit economy......Page 228
The 'organic commodity' and other anomalies in the politics of consumption......Page 246
Knowledge, ethics and power in the home furnishings commodity chain......Page 263
Index......Page 283
