The Interstices of Globalization
The Example of Fair Coffee
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4445853 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marie‐christine Renard (Chapingo Autonomous University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 484-500 |
| Publication date | 1999-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociologia Ruralis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0199 • E-ISSN: 1467-9523 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9523.00120 |
| OpenAlex | W2001889765 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 72 |
This paper analyses the process of globalization of agriculture and food. Its aim is to demonstrate that, inside of the homogeneous mainstream tendencies of this process dominated by transnational interests, interstices appear that open the way for small producers and middlemen developing certain products on the basis of specific qualities. Those interstices are made possible by the emergence of new patterns of consumption based on new socially shared values. The paper illustrates the argumentation with the case of the fair trade coffee network, which links producers from the 'South' with consumers in the 'North' around the values of solidarity and fairness. Because the network introduces the fair trade coffee into the large marketing channels in some European countries, it is built on the convergence of various interests among the agents involved in the filière. The paper analyses the ambivalence of the strategy that responds to market logic although it is also based on ethical principles. It finally raises questions about strategies based on specific qualities in the post-Fordist era
Ambivalence · Argumentation theory · Business · Convergence (economics) · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Epistemology · Fair trade · Globalization · Homogeneous · International trade · Mainstream · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Process (computing) · Sociology · Solidarity · Computer Science · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Law · Mathematics · Organic Food and Agriculture · Social Psychology
Food and Globalization
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"The "Coffee Doctors
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Networks, Ethics, and Economic Values
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Matsutake mushroom and Tibetans
Fair Trade USA coffee plantation certification
Changing women’s lives? Empowerment and aspirations of fair trade workers in South India
Is Fair Trade-Organic Coffee Sustainable in the Face of Migration? Evidence from a Oaxacan Community
Who Really Benefits from Fairtrade? An Analysis of Value Distribution in Fairtrade Coffee
Fair Trade, Free Trade and the State
Keeping trade fair
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Agencing an innovative territorial trade scheme between crop and livestock farming
No alternative? The politics and history of non-GMO certification
Some are more fair than others”
Fairtrade, certification, and labor
Resistance, redistribution, and power in the Fair Trade banana initiative
The political economy of alternative trade
Quality certification, regulation and power in fair trade
A Fair Trade approach to community forest certification? A framework for discussion
The interpersonal world of direct marketing
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Environmental certification of forests
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The besieged body
Taking the absurd seriously
Mainstreaming Fair Trade Coffee
In the Market But Not of It
Consuming Ethics
La calidad en el sistema agroalimentario globalizado
Confronting the Coffee Crisis
Fair Trade
Bringing the 'Moral Charge' Home
Fair trade gold’
Delivering the Goods
Weak Coffee
Adaptation in a multi-stressor environment
Towards a theory of values-based labeling
Gender, health, labor, and inequities
Fair trade slippages and Vietnam gaps
The Polanyian Way? Voluntary Food Labels as Neoliberal Governance
Environmental Certification of Forests in Mexico
Trade Justice and Individual Consumption Choices
Towards Sustainable Agriculture
Reading fair trade
Ethical agro-food networks in global peripheries, Part I
Cleaning up down South
Para uma sociologia das ausências e uma sociologia das emergências
Alternative Strategies in the UK Agro-Food System
The Mexican Coffee Crisis
Fair Trade and Neoliberalism
The Gift that Keeps on Giving
Allowing for the Projective Dimension of Agency in Analysing Alternative Food Networks
Ethical Trading and Socioeconomic Transformation
Understanding Alternative Food Networks
The Number is the Beast
Seduced or Sceptical Consumers? Organised Action and the Case of Fair Trade Coffee
Health as an emerging value in the construction of quality of berries in Huelva (Spain)
Reframing 'Crisis' in Fair Trade Coffee Production
Justice at a Price
Agriculture and Rurality
Consuming the Campesino
Struggles for autonomyfromandwithinthe market of southeast Mexico's small coffee producers
Class dynamics and ideological construction in the struggle over fairness
| Unique citing works | 72 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,77 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2026 (27) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 63 |