Supply‐Side Sushi: Commodity, Market, and the Global City

Bestor, Theodore C.

doi:10.1525/aa.2001.103.1.76

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“…In fact, however, the flow is never unidirectional (Appadurai 1990;Bestor 2001). This is made clear in Ethnicity Inc. in which John and Jean Comaroff (2009) show how, among others, native Americans, Shipibo of Peru, Catalonians of Spain and Agukuku of Kenya have appropriated some of the trappings of modernity-particularly those of the market place-to forge both viable commercial ventures (casinos, tourism) and new, revitalised identities.…”

Section: Global Flowsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Navigating the Future

Minnegal¹,

Dwyer²

2017

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Section: Global Flowsmentioning

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Navigating the Future

Minnegal¹,

Dwyer²

2017

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“…The strong ties that exist in some regions between fishing boat operators and those who buy their catches result in a dampened market where the forces of supply and demand are muted, and prices are volatile for consumers. On the other hand, where markets with arms length contracts between buyers and sellers exist, overfishing often results (Bestor, 2001;Rauch, 2001). Vertical integration of the process is not the answer either, as stability in fish supply and prices is best achieved only in the frozen fish market.…”

Section: The Consequences Of Connectivitymentioning

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17. Networks and Economic Life

Smith‐Doerr¹,

Powell²

2010

The Handbook of Economic Sociology, Second Edition

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interests include organization theory, economic sociology, gender and work, and science and technology studies. Smith-Doerr is combining these areas in a book manuscript, Life Chances/Life Sciences, that examines how organizational context shapes career opportunities for life scientists. Based on interviews and field work in universities, government labs and biotech firms, as well as analyses of career data, she illustrates the different sets of constraints faced by female scientists in these diverse settings, and the greater autonomy and flexibility that is afforded in commercial biotech. Walter W. Powell is Professor of Education and affiliated Professor of Sociology,Organizational Behavior, and Communication, and Director of the Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research at Stanford University. He is also an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute. Powell works in the areas of organization theory, economic sociology, and science and technology studies. He is currently engaged in research on the origins and development of the commercial field of the life sciences.With his collaborators Ken Koput and Doug White, he has authored a series of papers on the evolving network structure of the biotechnology industry. With Jason Owen-Smith, Powell is studying the role of universities in transferring basic science into commercial development by science-based companies, and the consequences for universities of their growing involvement in commercial activities. IntroductionSociologists and anthropologists have long been concerned with how individuals are linked to one another and how these bonds of affiliation serve as both a lubricant for getting things done and a glue that provides order and meaning to social life. The attention to networks of association, which began in earnest in the 1970s, provided welcome texture and dynamism to portraits of social life. This work stood in stark contrast to the reigning approaches in the social sciences. In contrast to deterministic cultural (oversocialized) accounts, network analysis afforded room for human agency, and in contrast to individualist, atomized (undersocialized) approaches, networks emphasized structure and constraint (Granovetter, 1985). Network studies offered a middle ground, a third way, even if no one was quite sure whether networks were a metaphor, a method, or a theory (Barnes 1979). But the sociologists and anthropologists who initially studied networks did not pay sustained attention to economic activity, although some industrial sociologists (Roy, 1954;Dalton, 1959) had long stressed the role of informal networks as an antidote to formal organization practices and structures.Over the past two decades, however, there has been an enormous upsurge of interest in the role of networks in the economy. This sea change has occurred in the worlds of both practice and theory. Across the social sciences, from anthropology to sociology to political science to economics, there is research on the role of networks in shaping such diverse phenomena as mig...

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“…Um dos pontos importantes apontados por Bestor (2001), que se diferencia da teoria do sistema-mundo, é que o entendimento GCC também pode ser útil para dar visibilidade ao "ator/comerciante intermediário". Ou seja, não apenas para os grandes produtores hegemônicos, mas como aponta Hughes (2001), para aqueles produtores cuja influência sobre o resto da cadeia não é tão direta no sentido de exercer pressão e dominação, mas que possuem importância capital no sistema de distribuição.…”

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Tratar as coisas como fatos sociais: metamorfoses nos estudos sobre cultura material

Leitão¹,

Pinheiro-Machado²

2010

Mediações - Rev. Cien. Soc.

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Procuramos analisar como a cultura material foi abordada na Antropologia, ao longo de alguns momentos de sua história. Discutimos igualmente propostas contemporâneas, surgidas, em sua maioria, nos estudos sobre consumo. Por último, sugerimos suas possíveis contribuições, discutindo em que medida a transformação na abordagem antropológica da cultura material traz inovações e provocações para que repensemos nossas práticas.

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Supply‐Side Sushi: Commodity, Market, and the Global City

Cited by 152 publications

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