The moral economy of grades and standards
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...…at using convention theory to enrich other approaches have been carried out in relation to global value chains (Daviron and Gibbon 2002; Daviron and Ponte forthcoming) and agro-food networks (Barham 2002; Busch 2000; Busch and Tanaka 1996; Freidberg 2003; Murdoch and Miele 1999; Murdoch et al ....
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...Marx’s analysis of capitalism examined the standardization of conditions for economic activity in a capitalist market, as well as the spread of the commodity as a standard mode of economic exchange (Marx 1867 [1977]; see also Busch 2000)....
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...Yet it is hard to see how standards can be purely good while standardization is wholly bad, given that standardization presumes the existence of standards, whereas standards cannot endure with any potency unless they are standardized across social domains (Busch 2000)....
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...To standardize transportation is inevitably to standardize the perceptions and tastes of travelers (Schivelbusch 1977); to standardize policies is to standardize those administered by them (Busch 2000)....
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...On the one hand, the social studies of science has been much in#uenced through the Actor Network Theory developed by Latour (1987, 1993) and Callon (Callon, 1991; Callon and Latour, 1992; Callon et al., 1986) among others (e.g., Law, 1994)....
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...On the one hand, the social studies of science has been much in#uenced through the Actor Network Theory developed by Latour (1987, 1993) and Callon (Callon, 1991; Callon and Latour, 1992; Callon et al., 1986) among others (e....
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...The result was that agricultural practice was forced to become more tightly coupled and arti"cially complex, since the natural complexity that had allowed the system to be more loosely coupled had been destroyed in order to apply the knowledge developed in experimental studies (Rouse, 1987, p. 233)....
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...…earlier work of Edmund Stone: Mathematical Instruments are the means by which those noble sciences, geometry and philosophy, are render'd 8As both Rouse (1987) and Latour (1987) have noted, the illusion of universality is constructed by a set of speci"c events and actions that are always local…...
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...The literature on the contemporary transformations of agriculture is voluminous (e.g., Bonanno et al., 1994; Busch et al., 1991; Buttel and Newby, 1980; Friedland et al., 1991; Goodman et al., 1987; Goodman and Watts, 1997; McMichael, 1995)....
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