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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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Serve and Certify: Paradoxes of Service Work in Organic-Coffee Certification
TL;DR: In this article, certified-organic inspection agents play a key role in reworking transnational organic-product certification standards to the unique conditions found within Mexican (Oaxacan) organic-coffee producer villages.
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Developing a Vertical Dimension to Chronic Poverty Research: Some Lessons from Global Value Chain Analysis
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study on wine, cut flowers, sustainable coffee and fish shows that the integration of people or areas into global value chains and trading relationships will exacerbate chronic poverty if the normal functioning of these chains is left unchecked.
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All talk, no action?: the global diffusion and clinical implementation of the international classification of functioning, disability, and health.
TL;DR: The diffusion of the ICF as a mere term and concept in the area of rehabilitation is successful, however, the implementation in clinical rehabilitation practice is highly idiosyncratic and rarely evaluated appropriately.
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State-centered versus nonstate-driven organic food standardization: A comparison of the US and Sweden
Magnus Boström,Mikael Klintman +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine why standardization has followed different patterns in the two settings and analyze context factors (i.e., political culture, pre-regulatory arrangements, and organizational structures) and process factors (e.g., framing and organizing).
Integrating poverty, gender and environmental concerns into value chain analysis
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a method to solve the problem of "uniformity" in the following manner, i.i.d., "uncertainty" (i.e.,
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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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