Peter Oakley
Biographic Data
| ID | 672886 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Oakley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Oakley |
| SIGNATURE | OAKLEY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal College of Art |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7876-8402 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Searching for pure gold
This paper explains the history of the first ethical gold certification programme: Fairtrade and Fairmined Gold, launched in February 2011, and its two successors. By presenting an overview of the key events that occurred in the UK and Switzerland relating to these three leading certification schemes, it outlines the trajectory and relevance of ethical gold in both countries up to the present day. This material is then used to explain why ethical…
Introducing Fairtrade and Fairmined gold
This chapter considers the multifaceted social identity of a particular substance gold - and how this identity is defended by groups, institutions and existing material culture in the face of challenges to its validity. This will be done through a case study of the rise and demise of a 'new material', Fairtrade and Fairmined (FT/FM) gold, created in an attempt to challenge the status quo. Campaigners' concerted attempts to increase the multivalen…
After mining
L’Invention du Luxe
Is Gold Jewelry Money
This article explores the extent to which gold jewelry, an object type conventionally looked on as a means of display, should also be seen as a type of money. Drawing on historical evidence and ethnographic research, the analysis considers the ways in which two examples—the Renaissance money chain and the modern jewelry collection—exhibit characteristics fundamental to money: liquidity, partibility, and recursive divisibility. As a result, this s…
Ticking Boxes
Today the high-price mechanical wristwatch is recognized as a luxury object redolent with notions of adventure, sporting achievement, elevated social status, and technical precision. Through an examination of the segmentation of the current luxury wristwatch market and key moments in the historical development of the wristwatch, this article will explain why these connotations exist. In particular, the article will explain the role that the early…
Women's work in third world agriculture
After mining
Searching for pure gold
This paper explains the history of the first ethical gold certification programme: Fairtrade and Fairmined Gold, launched in February 2011, and its two successors. By presenting an overview of the key events that occurred in the UK and Switzerland relating to these three leading certification schemes, it outlines the trajectory and relevance of ethical gold in both countries up to the present day. This material is then used to explain why ethical…
Ticking Boxes
Today the high-price mechanical wristwatch is recognized as a luxury object redolent with notions of adventure, sporting achievement, elevated social status, and technical precision. Through an examination of the segmentation of the current luxury wristwatch market and key moments in the historical development of the wristwatch, this article will explain why these connotations exist. In particular, the article will explain the role that the early…
Women's work in third world agriculture
Ticking Boxes
Today the high-price mechanical wristwatch is recognized as a luxury object redolent with notions of adventure, sporting achievement, elevated social status, and technical precision. Through an examination of the segmentation of the current luxury wristwatch market and key moments in the historical development of the wristwatch, this article will explain why these connotations exist. In particular, the article will explain the role that the early…
Is Gold Jewelry Money
This article explores the extent to which gold jewelry, an object type conventionally looked on as a means of display, should also be seen as a type of money. Drawing on historical evidence and ethnographic research, the analysis considers the ways in which two examples—the Renaissance money chain and the modern jewelry collection—exhibit characteristics fundamental to money: liquidity, partibility, and recursive divisibility. As a result, this s…
After mining
L’Invention du Luxe
Introducing Fairtrade and Fairmined gold
This chapter considers the multifaceted social identity of a particular substance gold - and how this identity is defended by groups, institutions and existing material culture in the face of challenges to its validity. This will be done through a case study of the rise and demise of a 'new material', Fairtrade and Fairmined (FT/FM) gold, created in an attempt to challenge the status quo. Campaigners' concerted attempts to increase the multivalen…
Searching for pure gold
This paper explains the history of the first ethical gold certification programme: Fairtrade and Fairmined Gold, launched in February 2011, and its two successors. By presenting an overview of the key events that occurred in the UK and Switzerland relating to these three leading certification schemes, it outlines the trajectory and relevance of ethical gold in both countries up to the present day. This material is then used to explain why ethical…
Art (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (2 works)