Anti-politics movement

Newhouse, Kara D.

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“…Critics of the Fair Trade logic have pointed to three main issues: (1) It offers Northerners a way to reconcile their recognition of possessing disproportionate wealth in the global economic system with their uncertainty of how to create structural change in that system (Newhouse, 2011); (2) It is a scandal because 'Fair Trade is but the most recent example of another sophisticated "scam" by the "invisible hand" of the free market. This noble endeavour for the salvation of the free market was tamed and domesticated by the very forces it wanted to fight' (Sylla, 2014); and (3) benefits to smallholders and communities are very poorly connected to wider societal struggles through which we can see a wider conception of 'fairness'.…”

Section: Embedding Fair Trade In South African Civil Society and Wide...mentioning

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Debating the role of Fair Trade in the context of socio-economic transformation in South Africa

Ngcwangu¹

2021

Journal of Fair Trade

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The notion of Fair Trade is a unique idea conceptualised historically in Northern countries to advance equitable and just trading processes that could provide an alternative to the mainstream trading system in the world. Northern activists working with producers, labourers and other impoverished sectors of the Global South are using market-based strategies to mobilise consumer awareness in order to bolster incomes and empower Southern producers and workers (Murray & Raynolds, 2007, p. 4). Fair Trade as a system is seen as a progressive attempt to transform the global exchange of products in a way that ensures ethical and socially just methods of production. Barrientos, Conroy and Jones (2007, p. 54) point out that in the United States Fair Trade's dramatic growth has accentuated underlying differences in the movement and tensions between the movement-based Alternative Trade Organisations (ATO)-led Fair Trade, and certified Fair Trade in mainstream outlets. The limits of the project of Fair Trade are well documented and critiqued by scholars with an appreciation of its limitations. The South African context of Fair Trade needs to align to the social conditions within which agricultural production takes place and the politics of social justice, equity and empowerment. For a South African product to be considered ‘fair’ while the social formation of the country and practices in various sectors still resemble historical inequalities – reflective of South Africa's colonial and apartheid history – should be seen as contradictory. The Fair Trade system is not as yet well entrenched in South Africa's political and social culture. For it to be embraced by a wider section of constituencies it needs to go beyond a business-driven process to one that reaches out to civil society. In this article I illustrate what the missing questions are in the South African context of Fair Trade and issues that need serious consideration for Fair Trade to have a wider impact.

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Section: Embedding Fair Trade In South African Civil Society and Wide...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Debating the role of Fair Trade in the context of socio-economic transformation in South Africa

Ngcwangu¹

2021

Journal of Fair Trade

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“Some are more fair than others”: fair trade certification, development, and North–South subjects

Naylor

2013

Agric Hum Values

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La red que crece: Platform Politics and Social Struggle in Neoliberal Guatemala

Sippert¹

2022

Latin American Perspectives

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Free-trade policies have opened the Guatemalan economy to international forces and sparked massive internal and international migration, creating new forms of social struggle produced by and engaging with these processes. A review of the 2008 advent of a grassroots organization in Western Highland Guatemala involved in binational United States–Guatemalan fair trade and migrant and solidarity organizing uses the concept of the platform instead of the network to highlight continuities and ruptures between past and present struggles. This perspective disrupts the vertical/horizontal dichotomy in social movement studies and sheds light on the effects of technological change on grassroots resistance to neoliberalism. Las políticas de libre comercio han abierto la economía guatemalteca a las pujanzas internacionales y provocado una migración masiva tanto interna como internacional, creando nuevas formas de lucha social producidas por y comprometidas con estos procesos. Este repaso del advenimiento, en 2008, de una organización de base en las Tierras Altas Occidentales de Guatemala involucrada en promover el comercio justo binacional entre Estados Unidos y Guatemala, así como la organización migrante y los nexos de solidaridad, utiliza el concepto de la plataforma en lugar de la red para resaltar las continuidades y rupturas entre luchas pasadas y presentes. Esta perspectiva irrumpe en la dicotomía vertical/horizontal subyacente a los estudios de movimientos sociales y nos brinda una perspectiva sobre los efectos del cambio tecnológico en las resistencias de base al neoliberalismo.

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Anti-politics movement

Abstract: Does fair trade operate as economic development for farmers and artisans of the Global South, or is it a social movement that speaks to neo-liberal political subjectivities of the Global North? Fisher's (Cult Agric 29(2):78-88, 2007

Cited by 4 publications

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Debating the role of Fair Trade in the context of socio-economic transformation in South Africa

Debating the role of Fair Trade in the context of socio-economic transformation in South Africa

“Some are more fair than others”: fair trade certification, development, and North–South subjects

La red que crece: Platform Politics and Social Struggle in Neoliberal Guatemala

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