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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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Governance and change in the British seafood supply chain 1950 to 2013
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the extent to which different sources of governance activity have both changed the supply, processing and consumption of seafood in Britain and achieved its sustainability, food safety and quality over the period 1950 to 2013.
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Club apples: a biology of markets built on the social life of variety
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use club apples as a case to demonstrate that varieties have shaped the development of the apple industry in ways that resist institutional pressures to commodify the biological features of the Apple.
Produce sections, town squares, and farm stands: comparing local food systems in community context *
TL;DR: This paper used the results from surveys of farmers' market consumers and case studies of local foods initiatives in parts of Illinois to answer these questions and applied the community capitals framework and convention theory to help categorize communities according to their acceptance of farmers markets.
Regulating Food Consumption : Studies of change and variation in Europe
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the role of the state in regulating food consumption in Norway and found that consumer choice has become a mode of regulation, which is not a question of societal or state vs individual responsibilities, but how choice as a form of consumer based involvement is institutionalised.
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Reconfiguring the city in the global South : rationalities, techniques and subjectivities in the local governance of energy
TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative study of two cities (Thane, in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, India, and Sao Paulo, in Brazil) was conducted to evaluate the way in which public and private stakeholders are implementing a new form of local energy generation through the use of domestic solar hot water (SHW) systems as a mechanism for reducing electricity consumption.
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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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