Add to ORKGThis paper critically compares radical and reformist global commodity chain analysis with two other traditions: Canadian staples analysis and the analysis of filieres. It considers what each can contribute to a critical analysis of essentially linear production and exchange complexes, particularly for the extraction and export of raw materials and semiprocessed goods. The article offers elements of a schematic model for such 'staple chains' and for the effective exercise of power through them. The article understands staple chains as media of power (Innis, [1930] 1970; 1936; 1954; McLuhan, [1964] 1965) and a problem of governance for environmentalists, fair-trade advocates and staple-chain stakeholders.media; power; staple chains; global co...
This article examines the evolution of the contemporary staples state. There are two forms of compet...
Increased awareness of ‘telecouplings’ between distant producer and consumer systems, through new fo...
Although fields such as industrial ecology have advanced our understanding of how cleaner technologi...
perspective Over the course of the last decade, the commodity chain construct has informed many stud...
This dissertation examines the impacts of globalization and neoliberal reforms through a political e...
Buyer-driven and producer-driven commodity chain governance typologies are helpful in characterizing...
The purpose of this paper is propose two vastly different approaches to studying the role of commodi...
The purpose of this paper is propose two vastly different approaches to studying the role of commodi...
Summaries Value?chain and traditional trade policy analysis are complementary: each throws light on...
This thesis analyzes the emergence in the 1990s and 2000s of novel forms of ‘green goods’ or ‘sustai...
International Trade has become an all encompassing feature of the modern world. Trade across nationa...
Since the early 1990s the concept of supply chains has been used widely in academic research on glob...
Analysis of commodity chains has provided important insights on how power, resource and market acces...
Individuals, consumer groups, nation states and supra-national bodies increasingly have interrogated...
Global commons refer to resource domains or areas that lie outside the physical or political reach o...
This article examines the evolution of the contemporary staples state. There are two forms of compet...
Increased awareness of ‘telecouplings’ between distant producer and consumer systems, through new fo...
Although fields such as industrial ecology have advanced our understanding of how cleaner technologi...
perspective Over the course of the last decade, the commodity chain construct has informed many stud...
This dissertation examines the impacts of globalization and neoliberal reforms through a political e...
Buyer-driven and producer-driven commodity chain governance typologies are helpful in characterizing...
The purpose of this paper is propose two vastly different approaches to studying the role of commodi...
The purpose of this paper is propose two vastly different approaches to studying the role of commodi...
Summaries Value?chain and traditional trade policy analysis are complementary: each throws light on...
This thesis analyzes the emergence in the 1990s and 2000s of novel forms of ‘green goods’ or ‘sustai...
International Trade has become an all encompassing feature of the modern world. Trade across nationa...
Since the early 1990s the concept of supply chains has been used widely in academic research on glob...
Analysis of commodity chains has provided important insights on how power, resource and market acces...
Individuals, consumer groups, nation states and supra-national bodies increasingly have interrogated...
Global commons refer to resource domains or areas that lie outside the physical or political reach o...
This article examines the evolution of the contemporary staples state. There are two forms of compet...
Increased awareness of ‘telecouplings’ between distant producer and consumer systems, through new fo...
Although fields such as industrial ecology have advanced our understanding of how cleaner technologi...