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Just bananas? A Fair Trade alternative for small-scale producers in the Dominican Republic.

机译：只是香蕉？多米尼加共和国针对小规模生产者的公平贸易替代方案。

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The Fair Trade movement is one of a growing number of contemporary social movements that have emerged to contest the neoliberal, capitalist, and corporate driven process of globalization. The movement seeks to draw from a rising consumer consciousness in the North to improve agricultural conditions in the South by altering exploitative trade relations that govern global exchange. This dissertation questions the extent to which Fair Trade may be a powerful force for overcoming inequitable trade relations, or whether it presents yet another empty promise of capitalist penetration of producer/consumer relations.; The study draws on field work in the Azua Valley of the Dominican Republic and focuses on the level of production to better understand the implications of Fair Trade initiatives. Primary data includes interviews with a random sample of the Fair Trade banana producers in the region (n = 115), participant and non-participant observations, and in-depth field interviews with a range of actors involved in the Fair Trade banana initiative.; In addition to examining the implications of Fair Trade for producers involved, I also consider the potential these initiatives might hold for achieving the movement's more ambitious goal of altering the current system of international trade. I argue that the Fair Trade movement is a counter-hegemonic social movement which can be understood as part of a broader, Gramscian “war of position.” However, while it successfully redistributes material resources to small-scale commodity producers, the movement's transformative potential is limited in important ways, notably by its reproduction of the historical power asymmetry between North and South. My analysis proceeds from an assumption that many Fair Trade advocates seek substantive, qualitative, and transformative change in the political economy of food and agriculture. But, given the present limitations for Fair Trade initiatives to bring about this kind of change, I argue they need to revisit the way Fair Trade is conducted today. In order to take advantage of its possibilities, the Fair Trade movement must engage in a critical reflection to re-conceptualize what underlies the notion of Fair Trade.
机译：公平贸易运动是为对抗新自由主义，资本主义和公司驱动的全球化进程而出现的越来越多的当代社会运动之一。该运动试图通过改变北部地区不断增长的消费者意识，通过改变支配全球贸易的剥削性贸易关系来改善南部的农业条件。本文质疑公平贸易在多大程度上可以成为克服不平等贸易关系的强大力量，或者它是否提供了资本主义渗透生产者/消费者关系的又一个空洞的希望。该研究借鉴了多米尼加共和国阿苏阿河谷的野外工作，并着重于生产水平，以更好地了解公平贸易倡议的含义。主要数据包括对区域内公平贸易香蕉生产者的随机抽样采访（n = 115），参与者和非参与者的观察，以及对参与公平贸易香蕉计划的一系列参与者的深入访谈。除了研究公平贸易对相关生产者的影响外，我还认为这些举措对于实现该运动更雄心勃勃的改变现有国际贸易体系的目标可能具有的潜力。我认为公平贸易运动是一种反霸权的社会运动，可以理解为是更广泛的葛兰西式“地位战争”的一部分。然而，尽管该运动成功地将物质资源重新分配给了小规模商品生产者，但该运动的变革潜力在重要方面受到了限制，尤其是它再现了南北之间历史力量的不对称性。我的分析基于这样一个假设，即许多公平贸易的拥护者都在寻求粮食和农业政治经济的实质性，质性和变革性变化。但是，鉴于实现这种变化的公平贸易倡议目前存在局限性，我认为他们需要重新审视当今公平贸易的开展方式。为了利用其可能性，公平贸易运动必须进行批判性反思，以重新概念化构成公平贸易概念的基础。

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    Shreck, Aimee.;

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    Colorado State University.;

  • 授予单位 Colorado State University.;
  • 学科 Sociology Social Structure and Development.; Agriculture General.; Economics Commerce-Business.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2002
  • 页码 213 p.
  • 总页数 213
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 社会结构和社会关系;农学（农艺学）;贸易经济;
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