Through a global ethnography of the organic and FairTrade banana supply chain in the Dominican Republic, this research reveals how FairTrade as a “spatial fix” for capital and a “small farm imaginary” work to marginalize a particular class
of workers. It also reveals the unseen sociality of FairTrade standards in the systemic and structural assumptions in the small farm production model that FairTrade promotes. The study finds that smallhold workers are essential to sustaining the market
for FairTrade bananas in a form of functional dualism between smallholders and plantations. In a counterintuitive outcome of the workings of FairTrade, workers might be better off in the medium-scale plantation model unique to the Dominican Republic.
Getting there : tradefair participation and its importance for Korean machinery exporters
Export ; Fair ; Industry ; Participation ; Seoul ; South Korea
is necessary for the successful implementation of their products in exportmarkets.One way for producers to address this issue is to participate in tradefairs, which enables a physical presence of staff and machinery to be established. Evidence from a survey
of Korean machinery producers at a recent tradefair suggests that a physical presence is related to the importance that firms ascribe to exports and to the role of tradefairs in new sales.
The development of tradefair ecologies in China : case studies from Chengdu and Shanghai
Chengdu ; China ; Fair ; Firm ; Industry ; Information ; Knowledge ; Shanghai ; Sichuan ; Technology ; Urban economy
This paper explores the interaction and communication patterns of firms at Chinese tradefairs in Shanghai and Chengdu and investigates whether these events are similar to those in Europe and North America. It shows that process of tradefair
national/ international, sales-driven versus knowledge-driven, and privately organized versus state planned Chinese tradefairs with different goals.
The hidden dimension : European mobile trade. Statistical estimates and an attempt to classify various forms of market halls, markets, fairs and mobile trade
European Union ; Fair ; Itinerant trade ; Periodic market ; Retail trade ; Sweden
Justice for all ? Material and semiotic impacts of FairTrade craft certification
Alternative economy ; Andes ; Certification ; Ecuador ; Fairtrade ; Handicrafts ; Label ; Latin America ; Moral economy ; Network
with a craftswomen's cooperative in the Ecuadorian Andes, it argues that the material practice impedes artisan's attempts to join the formal Fairtrade network, while the semiotic practice limits the ability to lift the veil of the commodity fetish, one of the central
Trade disputes, dispute settlement mechanisms, and local development
Canada ; Competition ; Development ; European Union ; Industrial sector ; International trade ; Local development ; Steel ; Trade agreement ; United States of America
that have addressed the mandate and rationale of the WTO's formal and legalistic DSM, paying especial attention to the realist perspective on international trade, the issue of fairness, and implications of asymmetric power relations for local development
This article highlights the role of Dispute settlement mechanisms (DSMs) in free trade agreements, especially in relation to the World Trade Organization (WTO), and draws out some implications for local development. The study reviews literatures
. Economic geographers need to incorporate free trade institutional architectures in contemplations of local development.
Service : traded and untraded knowledge. Section 3
Cette section contient trois articles. 1. La combinaison des services et des industries : les villes à savoir-faire élevé et l'évolution des formes de production. 2. Les services à haute intensité de savoir-faire et l'innovation urbaine. 3. Le
patrimoine comme savoir-faire : capital ou culture ?
Economic environment ; Economic geography ; Economic theory ; Firm strategy ; High-tech industry ; International trade ; Model ; Opportunity cost ; Research ; Trade policy
L'A. essaie de faire la synthèse des principales publications sur le commerce international depuis le début des années 1980. Il apporte des précisions sur les éléments à intégrer dans une vue d'ensemble théorique. Il convient de modifier la théorie
La RSFSR vient de faire paraître le premier recueil statistique concernant son commerce extérieur. Outre ses commentaires, l'A. présente 3 tableaux de chiffres récents relatifs : à la production par république en (1988), au commerce extérieur de la
Fair ; Hungary ; Local market ; Periodic market ; Town ; Trade
This a geographical study of exhibitions and fairs in three major cities of NE Hungary, Miskolc, Debrecen and Nyíregyháza. According to the author fairs and exhibitions constitute an important element of city marketing today and they enhance
Fairness and ethicality in their place : the regional dynamics of fairtrade and ethical sourcing agendas in the plantation districts of South India : Ethical foodscapes?: premises, promises, and possibilities
Agriculture ; Cultivated plants ; Ethics ; Fairtrade ; Globalization ; India ; Karnataka ; Kerala ; Peasantry ; Plantation ; Rural economy ; Tamil Nadu ; Traditional agriculture
Canada ; Fair ; Industrial sector ; Industry ; Knowledge economy ; Local development ; Regional economy ; Regional policy ; Spatial distribution ; United States of America
Solidarity : student activism, affective labor, and the FairTrade Campaign in the United States
Activism ; Commodification ; Consumer behaviour ; Consumption ; Empowerment ; Ethics ; Fairtrade ; Retail trade ; Social geography ; Students ; United States of America