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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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Actors in private food governance: the legitimacy of retail standards and multistakeholder initiatives with civil society participation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use the criteria of participation, transparency and accountability to evaluate the democratic legitimacy of private food retail governance institutions against the background of their ambivalent impact on the sustainability of the global agrifood system.
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Greener than Thou: The Political Economy of Fish Ecolabeling and Its Local Manifestations in South Africa
TL;DR: In this article, the analysis of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) label shows that developing country fisheries, and small-scale ones in particular, have been marginalized, and that ecolabeling is sought in the context of competitive pressures and specific political economies, not simply on the basis of value-free science and systemic management.
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The interpersonal world of direct marketing: Examining conventions of quality at UK farmers’ markets
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess how producers and consumers coordinate their mutual expectations in order to circumvent the uniform standards of ‘conventionally' produced food and create new production-consumption spaces.
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Fighting Standards with Standards: Harmonization, Rents, and Social Accountability in Certified Agrofood Networks
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the remaking of globalized standards through harmonization, and its impact upon certified-organic and fair-trade agrofood networks, and discuss four shifts associated with globalised standards (an increased importance of multilateral institutions, changes to standards language, displacement of network-specific standards, and a shift away from relational standards).
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Towards a theory of values-based labeling
TL;DR: In this article, a review of some basic premises of embeddedness theories derived from the work of Karl Polanyi reveals their connection toparticular values-based labeling efforts, and the conclusion emphasizes the need for moreresearch in this area and suggests how it could be furthered.
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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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