Screen LibraryGeographies of commodity chains
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2004. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge studies in human geography ; 10 |
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| Carrier Form: | x, 276 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0415339103 (Hardback : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | F7 |
| CLC: |
F7-05 F119.9 |
| Call Number: | F7-05/G345 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction : geographies of commodity chains / Alex Hughes and Suzanne Reimer -- From farm to supermarket : the trade in fresh horticultural produce from Sub-Saharan Africa to the UK / 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 : liberalisation 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 / Jon 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. |