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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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Postscript to the Special Issue: Governing Life by Standards A View from Engagements
TL;DR: This postscript discusses a variety of ways in which humans are committed to their environment — from public stances to the closest forms of proximity — and in pursuit of a kind of ‘good’.
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Product, Process and Place: An Examination of Food Marketing and Labelling Schemes in Europe and North America
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how "difference" is constructed by producers and other actors in the food supply chain by combining the attributes of "product, process and place" (PPP) in a range of marketing and labeling schemes.
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Back to the Land: The Paradox of Organic Food Standards
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how the rent-creating conventions that regulate organic food production undermine growers' abilities to farm in a less intensive manner, and they argue that these rents pass through to land values, contributing to a broader pattern of land valuation that pushes farmers to grow the most valuable crops in the most productive ways.
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Sustainable and responsible supply chain governance: challenges and opportunities
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the governance challenges that globalized supply chains and networks face in becoming sustainable and responsible, and identify opportunities for promoting sustainability and responsible governance, and draw on 16 articles published in this special volume of the Journal of Cleaner Production as well as upon the broader sustainable supply chain governance literature.
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The growth of halal meat markets in Europe: An exploration of the supply side theory of religion
John Lever,Mara Miele +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a comparative analysis of halal market trends and developments across four European countries is presented, based on research carried out during the EU funded Dialrel project, which draws attention to the ways in which EU legislation and WTO trade guidelines hinder attempts to standardize halal certification by giving equal weight to pre and non-stun halal slaughter practices emanating from different regional schools of thought within Sunni Islam.
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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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