Regimes of Ethical Value? Landscape, Race and Representation in the Canadian Diamond Industry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8069787 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kolson Schlosser (0000-0003-2729-6000, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 161-179 |
| Publication date | 2012-05-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Antipode (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0066-4812 • E-ISSN: 1467-8330 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.00996.x |
| OpenAlex | W1996573576 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 44 |
Canadian diamonds are marketed as “ethical” alternatives to notorious “blood diamonds”. This paper analyzes the specific matrices through which ethical consumption as a discourse is being mobilized to sell diamonds. I argue that consumption operates as a system of social signification in which consuming subjects are positioned as moral subjects. Moreover, I argue that historically accumulated symbolic power, in the form of imagined geographies of benevolent colonialism in the Canadian North versus the exploitation of “dark” Africa, pristine, “white” northern landscapes, modernization via commodity production, and national identity, creates the very field of meaning within which the consuming subject is positioned. The ethicalization of Canadian diamonds also has important normative implications both in terms of the cultural politics of ethical consumption and social and environmental justice in the Canadian North
Colonialism · Commodity · Consumption (sociology · Economics · Environmental ethics · Field (mathematics · Market economy · Normative · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Race (biology · Representation (politics · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics · White (mutation · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation · Gender Studies · Law
History, scale and the political ecology of ethical diamonds in Kugluktuk, Nunavut
Introduction
Problems of abstraction and extraction in cultural geography research
Resource geographies I
Colonial Continuities in Closure
Race, Space, and Nature
Contested diamond certification
Extending Extractivism
Place‐making at a national scale
Friction between Reticence and Narrative in Local and Global Interconnections along the Ethical Canadian Diamond Supply Chain
Ethical product havens in the global diamond trade
Inventing Canada
Brewing Justice
Neoliberal Environments
Distinction
Fair Trade
Hunting for Hydrocarbons
In Search of an Identity Canada Looks North
Introduction
Context and Method in Qualitative Research
American Commodities in an Age of Empire
The Origins of Advertising Discourse
An ethics of connection
Domestic Politics
The political economy of alternative trade
The Fictions of Autonomous Invention
Moral economies of food and geographies of responsibility
MTV
Transparency and democracy in certified ethical commodity networks
Tanzanite as conflict gem
The mirror of consumption
Diamond Wars? Conflict Diamonds and Geographies of Resource Wars
Ethnoscaping Canada's boreal forest
Consuming narratives
Consuming Ethics
Producing vertical territory
Globalising the consumer
From Ethical Consumerism to Political Consumption
Geographies of exchange and circulation
Commodity Cultures
De-centring White ruralities
The influence of betterment discourses on Canadian Aboriginal peoples in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Geographies of responsibility
The Consumer Society
Commodifying what nature
Reading fair trade
Environment, race and nation reconsidered
The White Geography of Lawren Stewart Harris
The geographical lives of commodities
The Shifting Middle Ground
Consumers and Consumption
Ethical consumption
Animal liberation and rights
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,85 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |