Commodified meanings, meaningful commodities: Re-thinking production-consumption links through the organic system of provision

By J. Guthman. 2002

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Geography, Planning and Development, Plant Science

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Conversion to organic farming: a multidimensional research object at the crossroads of agricultural and social sciences. A review (2011, background): “…the analysis of some recent developments in agro-food systems, and specifically the study of alternative food networks centred on organic but also local production (Murdoch and Miele, 1999; Marsden, 2000; Goodman, 2002, 2003; Goodman and DuPuis, 2002; Guthman, 2002; Lamine, 2005; Moore, 2006).”
Participatory organic certification in Mexico: an alternative approach to maintaining the integrity of the organic label (2010, background): “The critiques levied against mainstream organic certification echo the concerns of those who suggest that, as it has grown in scale, the organic sector has become increasingly ‘‘conventionalized’’ and that it has, in becoming a full-fledged industry, lost its connection to the holistic ideals of the”
Co-producing Transition: Innovation Processes in Farms Adhering to Solidarity-based Purchase Groups (GAS) in Tuscany, Italy (2011, background): “…– belonging to different spheres of social and economic life – that come together to build new systems of meaning and new systems of food provision (Guthman, 2002; Roep and Wiskerke, 2005); c. new livelihood strategies for farmers (Renting et al., 2003; Goodman and Goodman, 2007) based on the…”
Reading fair trade: political ecological imaginary and the moral economy of fair trade foods (2004, background): “These discourses build on an ‘‘aesthetics of taste’’ (Guthman, 2002) that provides consumers with a rather voyeuristic type of knowledge of who is growing fair trade commodities, how they go about it, and what participating in these networks does for their communities.”
Growing local food: scale and local food systems governance (2012, background): “Research on certification shows that similar issues arise with ethical commodities, where the product comes to symbolize the practices or principles that are – in theory – adding value to the exchange (Eden et al. 2008; Mutersbaugh and Lyon 2010; Guthman 2002).”
The quality of sustainability: Agroecological partnerships and the geographic branding of California winegrapes (2007, background): “Scholars now describe this as the commodification of sustainability (Allen and Kovach, 2000; Guthman, 2002).”
You Are What You Eat: The Social Economy of the Slow Food Movement (2004, background): “…upper-income or highly educated individuals conveys elitism and an aesthetic sensibility that privileges symbolic use value over material use value (Guthman 2002: 300); (2) the pleasure of the table abstracts from the gendered division of household labor; (3) the quest for artisan-produced,…”
Making reconnections in agro-food geography: alternative systems of food provision (2005, background): “…are potentially reactionary (e.g., white, bourgeois and harking back to a rural idyll23) and may promote social and spatial exclusivity (Holloway and Kneafsey, 2000: 294–95; Guthman, 2002: 299; Hendrickson and Heffernan, 2002: 365–66; Allen et al., 2003: 63; Hinrichs, 2003: 41; Winter, 2003b: 301).”
Greener than Thou: The Political Economy of Fish Ecolabeling and Its Local Manifestations in South Africa (2008, background): “In both cases, however, these “radical” challenges seem to be on the wane in the name of commercial success (Guthman, 2002; Raynolds, 2004; Raynolds, Murray & Taylor, 2004; Mutersbaugh, 2005b).”
Embodying Neoliberalism: Economy, Culture, and the Politics of Fat (2006, background): “…(Fine et al, 1996; Friedland, 1984; Hopkins and Wallerstein, 1994) was an attempt to address these sorts of lacunae but their top-down verticality still privileges production or distribution capitals, at the expense of insights into consumption (Goodman and DuPuis, 2002; Guthman, 2002).”
Certified organic agriculture in Mexico: Market connections and certification practices in large and small producers (2005, background): “In the early years of global organic agriculture, commercial relations were based on direct agreements between producers and consumers, relationships of trust, and a shared knowledge of local level technical and social production (Guthman, 2002; Gonzalez and Nigh, 2005).”
The Trouble with ‘Organic Lite’ in California: a Rejoinder to the ‘Conventionalisation’ Debate (2004, background): “As I have argued elsewhere at length (Guthman 2002; Guthman 2004b), a regulatory structure that only attempts to support a price premium is exactly what contributes to the erosion of organic practices, either through rampant competition and/or the more stultifying inscription of monopoly rents into…”
Who decides what is fair in fair trade? The agri-environmental governance of standards, access, and price (2010, background): “…et al. 2009), sociocultural relationships (Nigh 1998, Bray et al. 2002), contradictions inherent in a certification-based strategy for broader scale environmental conservation (Guthman 2002, Jaffee 2007), and persistent tensions about governance and standards (Guthman 2004, DuPuis and Gillon 2009).”
Place, Taste, or Face-to-Face? Understanding Producer–Consumer Networks in “Local” Food Systems in Washington State (2005, background): “Some of this ‘‘bridging’’ work considers consumer constructions of value in organic production (Guthman, 2002), in ‘‘values based’’ food labeling schemes (Barham, 2002), and in the potential of ‘‘Fair Trade’’ networks to link producers to socially and environmentally conscious consumers (Raynolds, 2”