Tracking Globalization: Commodities and Value in Motion

Foster, Robert J.

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“…Conceptually, there are parallels here between geographers' emphasis on the relational production of space and place (Massey, 1994) and the new imperial history with its emphasis that ideas and practices flow from colony to metropole as well as the other way around (Burton, 2003;Hall and Rose, 2006). For consumption, the process of 'globalization at the margins' has been especially illuminated by anthropologists and geographers (Wilk, 2006: 63; see also Foster, 2006;Miller 1995b;Miller 1998). In the case of British Honduras (Belize), it was the hunger of pirates, settlers and merchants for British foods that helped create a system where, instead of developing its own agriculture and food industry, the colony exported logs of mahogany and tortoise shell to import pickled Bristol tripe, smoked tongues, brandy and imperial citronade.…”

Section: Consuming Empires: Diversity Hybridity and Self-fashioningmentioning

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Trentmann

2009

Journal of Consumer Culture

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This article has two aims. First, it seeks to raise awareness about three competing frameworks that are currently dominating the debate about consumption and globalization: 18th-century global exchanges; Americanization; and consumerism. These have tended to operate in virtual isolation and ignorance from each other. Second, through a critical discussion of recent research, the article sets out to complicate conventional chronologies of tradition/modernity/late modernity that continue to underpin much research on consumer cultures. Instead of a linear progression from diversity to standardization, from gift-exchange to commodity-exchange, and from public engagement to privatized materialism, the article points to the dynamic interaction between these forms across time. An appreciation of these longer, deeper, and more variegated histories means that it is problematic to equate consumer culture with the `age of affluence' after the Second World War. In turn, it calls on critics of consumerism to adopt a more realistic and historically sensitive approach that engages with the longer evolution of consumer culture and avoids idealized images of a recent pre-consumerist past.

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Section: Consuming Empires: Diversity Hybridity and Self-fashioningmentioning

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Crossing Divides

Trentmann

2009

Journal of Consumer Culture

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“…-distributors looking to gain access to new markets, regional governments seeking to procure greater economic development, buyers looking for differentiated, exclusive products to extend their range of offerings, food writers and journalists planning to write on the new cultural cache of cheese, academics carving out new research spaces, an organization seeking to extend its legitimacy as a cultural economic actor -each with strategic interests and partial knowledge, and each actively engaged in the creation of value. The difference with Cheese!, and what makes it such a valuable site of study, is that each of these 'actors' who typically "encounter and construct a commodity at different moments in its circulation" are copresent (Foster 2006;288). Multiple locals, and the locales they represent, convene to give shape to the space of a transnational economy, and reveal the knowledge, interests, social relations, mutuality, interactions, devices, and instruments involved in configuring that space; shattering the notion of the defined, delineated and bounded 'local' that lies at the heart of Slow Food's organizational strategy and revealing it as a quality actively produced and attached to cheese in the simultaneous production of a transnational product space.…”

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The morality of cheese: A paradox of defensive localism in a transnational cultural economy

MacDonald

2013

Geoforum

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This paper uses the example of Slow Food International (SFI) and its promotion of artisanal cheese to examine how scale is produced around the defense of particular social relations of production. I argue that attempts by SFI to naturalize discursive configurations of rural/local/traditional express a particular politics tied to the anxiety of 'losing' imagined rural communities. However, SFI attempts to 'save' these communities are grounded not in planning or policy but in a kind of entrepreneurialism that locates the preferred mode of defense in the 'natural morality' of products like cheese, which is associated with the conditions of locale, the presence of communities willing and able to reproduce locale, and the historical processes of production acted out by those communities. This strategy is a paradox for Slow Food in that efforts to communicate the 'goodness' of local product rely on spatially extensive markets and memberships that support a defensive localism through consumption of what they read as (morally) good products. In its apparent defense of localism, Slow Food brings 'the local' into being and, much like the disciplinary writing of Geographical Indications (e.g., AOC), simultaneously 'displaces' it by situating the social relations of production in translocal circuits of regulation and consumption. It is reterritorializing the local in the space of its own regulatory operations, in the spaces of the institutions it is affiliated with, in its own entrepreneurial agency, and ultimately in the ideological domain of its loose network of parochial, yet transnational, members.

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“…Assim, seguindo a idéia do conjunto da coletânea sobre a importância de se percorrer "os caminhos" dos objetos, o autor lança mão da idéia de "biografia das coisas", a qual tem inspirado uma série de pesquisadores nas últimas décadas, estimulando-os a seguir objetos em contextos de circulação cotidiana (FOSTER, 2006). Miller (2007) reconheceu que, após 20 anos de influência marxista e ênfase na produção, e outros vinte anos de ampla difusão do consumo, está na hora de pensar a mercadoria sob um ponto de vista que congregue ambos os pólos.…”

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“…Appadurai (2006) fala-nos a respeito de uma "mercadoria ecumênica", ou seja, de um processo que une produtores, distribuidores e consumidores. Enquanto possibilidade de análise, isso pode ser entendido como uma espécie de "fetichismo metodológico" ou "fetichismo crítico", que, segundo Foster (2006), significa uma apreciação ou um fascínio pelo estudo da materialidade das coisas em movimento.…”

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“…Esse estudo começou com um forte vínculo com a teoria de sistemamundo, a qual definia esse processo enquanto uma rede global (centro-periferia) de trabalho e produção que terá como produto uma mercadoria. Segundo Foster (2006), foi Gary Geriffy o autor que estendeu a concepção de GCC para uma rede mais ampla, que abarca de produtores a consumidores. Bestor (2001, p. 80) entende a estrutura de uma commodity chain como "os links, os estágios, as fases e as mãos através dos quais um produto passa e é transformado, combinado, fabricado e distribuído entre produtores e consumidores".…”

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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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Tracking Globalization: Commodities and Value in Motion

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The morality of cheese: A paradox of defensive localism in a transnational cultural economy

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