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The moral economy of grades and standards
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In this article, it is argued that grades and standards are part of the moral economy of the modern world, and that they both set norms for behavior and standardize (create uniformity).About:
This article is published in Journal of Rural Studies.The article was published on 2000-07-01. It has received 313 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Generally Accepted Auditing Standards & Standardization.read more
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Introduction to the symposium
Emmanuelle Cheyns,Lone Riisgaard +1 more
TL;DR: A number of multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) and commodity roundtables have been created since the 1990s to respond to the growing criticism of agriculture's environmental and social impacts as discussed by the authors.
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Projects of scale-making: new perspectives for the anthropology of tourism
Patrick Neveling,Carsten Wergin +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that central shortcomings of the globalisation debate, such as a teleologically-minded futurism, euphemistic notions of economic circulation and conflations of mundane and scientific debates, shape both the tourism industry and too many anthropological studies on tourism.
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Searching for (un)sustainabilty in pangasius aquaculture: A political economy of quality in European retail
Simon R. Bush,Marjolein Duijf +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the main sources of uncertainty over the environmental sustainability of Vietnamese pangasius catfish in European markets and how retailers subsequently respond to these uncertainties are investigated, drawing on a political economy of food quality.
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Private Agri-Food Standards: Contestation, Hybridity and the Politics of Standards
TL;DR: The first issue of the IJSAF Private Agri-food Standards special issue as discussed by the authors focused on the contestation, hybridity and the politics of standards, and several articles investigated and complicated the divide between so-called public versus private standards.
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Seed laws, certification and standardization: outlawing informal seed systems in the Global South
TL;DR: A series of relatively new seed laws are becoming novel mechanisms of accumulation by dispossession in agriculture as discussed by the authors, and they are becoming an additional threat to an already waning agro-biodiversity, with direct consequences for farmers' livelihoods.
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present La Volonté de Savoir, the methodological introduction of a projected five-volume history of sexuality, which seems to have a special fascination for Foucault: the gradual emergence of medicine as an institution, the birth of political economy, demography and linguistics as human sciences, the invention of incarceration and confinement for the control of the "other" in society (the mad, the libertine, the criminal) and that special violence that lurks beneath the power to control discourse.
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We Have Never Been Modern
TL;DR: This article argued that we are modern as long as we split our political process in two - between politics proper, and science and technology, which allowed the formidable expansion of the Western empires.
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Science in action : how to follow scientists and engineers through society
TL;DR: In this article, the quandary of the fact-builder is explored in the context of science and technology in a laboratory setting, and the model of diffusion versus translation is discussed.
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Capitalism and Freedom
TL;DR: In the classic bestseller, Capitalism and Freedom, Friedman presents his view of the proper role of competitive capitalism as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom as mentioned in this paper.
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