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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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Seasonality as value(s) in organic farming: On the conflict on heating greenhouses in France
TL;DR: In this article , a polemic on the use of heating systems in greenhouse organic farming for tomato production is presented, which illustrates an existing conflict within organic agriculture between symbolic and economic values, and identifies critical junctures that shaped the division in organic agriculture toward differing conception of seasonality.
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Public–private inquiries: Institutional intermediaries and the transparency nexus in global resource development
Deanna Kemp,John R. Owen +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that there is a certain independence or autonomy associated with these inquiries, justifying their analytical separation from internal corporate governance, and that these inquiries provide opportunities for scholars of global environmental politics to consolidate their activist roots and connect local realities to global debates.
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Farmer’s Freedom in the Productive World Order: Standard Takers, Contesters and Negotiators, or Dissenters?
TL;DR: The authors analyzed qualitative data from Finland along the theoretical axes of farmers' interest in socio-economic achievement and willingness to comply with standards and found that farmers' freedom has the character of a social force to modify food chains.
A EMERGÊNCIA DE STANDARDS FLORESTAIS: mecanismos de implementação de práticas sustentáveis
TL;DR: In this article, the authors characterize the emergence of forest standards as mechanisms for implementing sustainable practices within the emerging academic field of Social Studies of Science and Technology (SSST), and address the social construction of the concept of standard in their complexes relationships with the triad formed by environment, forests and sustainable development.
Qualities of Quality Standards? : The likelihood of compliance with sustainability standards in retail
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined 30 standards that are relevant to global agri-food retail chains, in terms of their sustainability scope and compliance likelihood, and found that, on average, the likelihood of compliance remains low.
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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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