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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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Market Mediators and the Tradeoffs of Legitimacy-Seeking Behaviors in a Nascent Category
TL;DR: The authors explored how one standards-based certification organization -the California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF) sought to balance efforts to legitimate a nascent market category with retaining a shared, distinctive identity among its members, and found that legitimacy-seeking behaviors undertaken by the standards organization diluted the initial collective identity and founding ethos of its membership.
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Semi‐subsistence Producers and Biosecurity in the Slovenian Alps
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the encounter between biosecurity and semi-subsistence producers in the Slovenian Alps and explore the interplay of economic, cultural and symbolic influences that have resulted in suspicion of the logic of state regulation.
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From seed to smoke: The re-making of the tobacco market in Turkey
TL;DR: From Seed to Smoke: The Re-Making of the Tobacco Market in Turkey by Ebru Kayaalp as discussed by the authors utilizes an ethnographic investigation to understand how globally standardized economic ideas, policies and institutions are put into practice in developing countries.
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From Fishery to Fork: Food Safety and Sustainability in the ‘Virtual’ Knowledge-Based Bio-Economy (KBBE)
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that some aspects of KBBE actually constitute failures of performativity, and that the appearance of having a system in place which functions "as if" it followed regulation on food safety is what counts for good performance when systems are evaluated for conformity with EU rules.
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The Multidimensional Definition of Quality
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the change in market structures and governance regimes in the agrofood sector, meaning the ways of competition and of coordination within economic actors, entrepreneurs, professions, civil organizations, the states, and local governments.
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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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