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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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Being Fair about the Design of FAIR Data Standards
TL;DR: Questions to ask include how representation in standard setting communities is addressed; what infrastructures and resources these emergent standards are reliant on; and how standards dictate specific interpretations of “value” and “valuable data.”
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Governing 'spaces of interaction' for sustainable fisheries.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce the concept of "spaces of interaction" to determine how existing market-based governance tools improve participation and deliberation between actors along fish value chains.
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New challenges for the players in global agriculture and food.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore contexts of the relationships that link up producers, workers and consumers involved in the activities to globalize food, inspired by a novel and restructured agricultural site, localized in the Brazilian Northeast.
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Serving Magically Perfect Fruit Globally: Local nesting in translating multiple standards:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used insights from science and technology studies to study the translation of multiple standards in the Global Food Agreement (GFA) in the field of food production and exchange.
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Māori Women Promoting Food Sovereignty in Aotearoa (New Zealand)
TL;DR: A review of the literature on Indigenous Peoples, Food and the Environment and food security and its applications in the context of food insecurity and environmental protection.
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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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