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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Commodity Chains"”.
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Imperial Splendor: Diamonds, Commodity Chains, and Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain
This work is based on a wide range of British newspapers and jewelry trade periodicals, particularly Jeweller and Metalworker, archival work done in the Birmingham City Archives on the Birmingham Jewellers' and Silversmiths' Association, the papers of Joseph Chamberlain (University of Birmingham) …
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Imperial splendor: Diamonds, commodity chains, and consumer culture in nineteenth-century Britain
… century and how Britain's involvement in diamond commodity chains across the century informed metropolitan consumers' conception of and desire for diamond jewelry. It argues that knowledge about the conditions of production in colonial spaces and supply to the metropole increased diamond …
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External actors, high value resources and threatened species: shark fin commodity chains of Northern Madagascar, interception for conservation
… decline. Yet despite this, the structure of the commodity chain from artisanal and traditional fisheries remains ambiguous. This study investigates the structureand operation of the shark fin trade in northern Madagascar in an attempt to generate locally relevant socio-economic information and …
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After the Aquaculture Bust: Impacts of the Globalized Food Chain on Poor Philippine Fishing Households
… aquaculture agenda. In reality, capitalist commodity chains of export-oriented aquaculture externalize to households and to nature much of the true cost of producers and of ecological degradation. As a result, malnourished and impoverished Philippine fishing households subsidize global …
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The Logistical Mode of Production: Logistics as a Total Way of Life
… Formerly confined to the governance of commodity chains, logistics’ influence has grown into a pervasive social rationality that promotes endless circulation and perpetual uncertainty as inextricable realities of contemporary life. Its ubiquity, I argue, is creating an altogether new …
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Managing nature, constructing the state: the material foundation of Soviet Empire in Tajikistan, 1917-1937
… required the establishment of transportation and commodity chains. These material implications of political and cultural projects are routinely left out of histories of Soviet power. My work instead illuminates the material and economic operations that fueled and sometimes confounded socialism, …
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Neoliberalism and NAFTA: A Case Study of the Coffee Commodity System and Huatusco, Veracruz, Mexico
… analysis is the theoretical outline. The global commodity chains approach is used to examine the coffee commodity system that links the United States and Mexico. This thesis includes qualitative and quantitative data that were developed from fieldwork research in Mexico and in the community. The …
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Mediating regional development : how metalworking firms forged lasting linkages with steel in Ciudad, Guayana, Venezuela
… poles, foreign direct investment, and global commodity chains, large firms can dynamize lagging economies by creating a market for inputs, which then stimulates and fortifies local suppliers. Yet in practice, many national and regional development efforts centered on attracting large firms …
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The Cocaine-Wildlife Connection: Crime Convergence in Central America
… examine the relationship between these illicit commodity networks. The result of the non-parametric statistical analysis demonstrates a positive, statistically significant correlation between cocaine seizures and wildlife flows from Guatemala and Costa Rica to the United States. Interview …
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Non-timber Forest Products, Gender, and Households in Nicaragua: A Commodity Chain Analysis
… product market. Based around the concept of commodity chain analysis, this research examines each stage in two non-timber forest products', straw brooms and coco baskets, life cycles from extraction to final sale. The first objective of this research is to contribute to the literature on …
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All That Is Air Turns Solid: The Creation of a Market for Sinks Under the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change
… <p>This dissertation analyzes this new commodity and how it works on the ground. It describes problems encountered by UN negotiators when they abstracted, isolated and quantified a process such as breathing, which takes place naturally everywhere, anyway. It details the UNFCCC …
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Organisationsstrukturen und Machtbeziehungen im marokkanischen Gebirgstourismus
… die mit einem Value Chain-Ansatz arbeiten. Value Chains beschreiben, kurz gefasst, den vollständigen Produktionsprozess eines Gutes und zeigen, wie hierbei einzelne Aktivitäten miteinander verbunden und koordiniert sind. Innerhalb der verschiedenen Value Chain-Ansätze verdient vor allem der …