Geographies of commodity chains / edited by Alex Hughes and Suzanne Reimer.

• Superior document: Routledge studies in human geography ; 10
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Hughes, Alex; Reimer, Suzanne.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge studies in human geography ; 10.
• Physical Description: x, 276 p. :; ill., map.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Alex Hughes and Suzanne Reimer -- From farm to supermarket : the trade in fresh horticultural produce from Sub-Saharan Africa to the United Kingdom / Hazel R. Barrett, Angela W. Browne, and Brian Wilbery -- Are hogs like chickens? : enclosure and mechanization in two 'white meat' fileres / Michael J. Watts -- Spilling the beans on a tough nut : liberalization and local supply system changes in Ghana's cocoa and shea chains / Niels Fold -- New geographies of agro-food production : an analysis of UK quality assurance schemes / Carol Morris and Craig Young -- Culinary networks and cultural connections : a conventions perspective / Jonathan Murdoch and Mara Miele -- Initiating the commodity chain : South Asian women and fashion in the diaspora / Parvati Raghuram -- Geographical knowledges in the Ecuadorian flower industry / Justine Coulson -- Citrus, apartheid, and the struggle to (re)present outspan oranges / Charles Mather and Petrina Rowcroft -- Tropics of consumption : getting with the fetish of 'exotic' fruit? / Ian Cook, Philip Crang, and Mark Thorpe -- Unravelling fashion's commodity chains / Louise Crewe -- Accounting for ethical trade : global commodity networks and the audit economy / Alex Hughes -- The 'organic commodity' and other anomalies in the politics of consumption / Julie Guthman -- Knowledge, ethics, and power in the home furnishings commodity chain / Suzanne Reimer and Deborah Leslie.