1. Introduction Part 1: Commodity Chains, Networks and Filières 1. From Farm to Supermarket: The Trade in Fresh Horticultural Produce from Sub-Saharan Africa to the United Kingdom 2. Are Hogs like Chickens? Enclosure and Mechanization in Two 'White Meat' Filières 3. Spilling the Beans on a Tough Nut: Liberalisation and Local Supply System Changes in Ghana's Cocoa and Shea Chains Part 2: Commodity Chains and Cultural Connections 4. New Geographies of Agro-Food Production: An Analysis of UK Quality Assurance Schemes 5. Culinary Networks and Cultural Connections: A Conventions Perspective 6. Initiating the Commodity Chain: South Asian Women and Fashion in the Diaspora Part 3: Commodities, Representations and the Politics of the Producer-Consumer Relation 7. Geographical Knowledges in the Ecuadorian Flower Industry 8. Citrus, Apartheid and the Struggle to (Re)present Outspan Oranges 9. Tropics of Consumption: 'Getting with the Fetish' of 'Exotic' Fruit? Part 4: Ethical Commodity Chains and the Politics of Consumption 10. Unravelling Fashion's Commodity Chains 11. Accounting for Ethical Trade: Global Commodity Networks, Virtualism and the Audit Economy 12. The 'Organic Commodity' and Other Anomalies in the Politics of Consumption 13. Knowledge, Ethics and Power in the Home Furnishings Commodity Chain
Biography
Alex Hughes, Suzanne Reimer
This book offers a rich variety of empirical case studies to illustrate both the achievements of commodity chain approaches, and the new avenues down which research may head. Jennifer Jones, University of Liverpool
