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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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A social life for carbon? Commodification, markets and care
Michael K. Goodman,Emily Boyd +1 more
TL;DR: In the USA, Cap and trade was turned into shouts of ‘Cap and Tax!’ by the likes of Sarah Palin, her fellow Mama Grizzlies and other Tea Party minions, in conjunction with a rather compliant US media.
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Meat, metrics and market devices: Commensuration infrastructures and the assemblage of ‘the schedule’ in New Zealand's red meat sector
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the regular listing of prices for sheep and beef traditionally known as "the schedule" in New Zealand and trace the complex filigree of associations that are assembled to make it durable.
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Livestock welfare product claims: The emerging social context
TL;DR: A greater understanding is provided of how product claims about food animal welfare or well-being are made, their implications, and the challenges they present.
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Standards for Development: Food Safety and Sustainability in Wal-Mart's Honduran Produce Supply Chains†
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the inclusion of food safety standards in development projects leads to the conflation of food food safety and sustainability, without adequately interrogating which agroecological processes food safety rules include and exclude.
Fairness for Whom? Regulating Banana Production through Voluntary Certification and Labeling
TL;DR: Brown et al. as mentioned in this paper examined the role of Fairtrade certification and labeling in mediating the socio-ecological relations of banana production and concluded that, under certain conditions, Fairtrade can benefit some farmers and workers, but it fails to address the broader social and ecological conditions of the banana production.
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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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