The Polanyian Way? Voluntary Food Labels as Neoliberal Governance

By J. Guthman. 2007

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Subfields: Food Science, Plant Science, Strategy and Management

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Governance of global value chains in response to food safety and certification standards: the case of shrimp from Vietnam (2013, background): “However, agri-food chain studies also have drawn attention to other actors who play important roles in driving agri-food chains including international traders (Gibbon, 2001), the state (Gellert, 2003), private certification networks (Busch & Bain, 2004; Raynolds, 2004), and NGOs (Guthman, 2007; Ray”
Weak Coffee: Certification and Co-Optation in the Fair Trade Movement (2012, background): “Julie Guthman (2007), on the other hand, charges that voluntary product labels are “typical of neoliberal regulation” because they shift regulatory responsibility from the state to consumers: “not only do these labels concede the market as the locus of regulation . . . but they employ tools…”
The growth of halal meat markets in Europe: An exploration of the supply side theory of religion (2012, background): “8 The paper contributes to the debate about the role of food standards and the increasing importance of third party certification (TPC) (Busch, 2000, 2011; Eden et al., 2008; Guthman, 2007; Miele et al., 2005; Goodman, 2004) by looking at the growth and development of the halal meat market across Eu”
Who decides what is fair in fair trade? The agri-environmental governance of standards, access, and price (2010, background): “certifications, including Fair Trade and organic coffee, are the early phases of another double movement (Raynolds 2000, Bacon 2005a, Jaffee 2007) or a case of second phase neoliberal environmental governance (Guthman 2007).”
Standardizing sustainable development? The Forest Stewardship Council's plantation policy review process as neoliberal environmental governance. (2010, background): “…as they theorize certification systems as instruments of social movements attempting to re-regulate commodity networks in order to protect labor and environmental attributes endangered by neoliberalization (Barham, 2002; Barnett et al., 2005; Mutersbaugh, 2005; Klooster, 2006; Guthman, 2007).”
Moving the Field of Food Justice Forward Through the Lens of Urban Political Ecology (2014, background): “As Guthman (2007) observed, “labels not only concede the market as the locus of regulation, but in keeping with neoliberalism’s fetish of market mechanisms, they employ tools designed to create markets where none previously existed” (p.456).”
The Handbook of Neoliberalism (2016, background): “tuna (Baird and Quastel 2011) to organic vegetables (Guthman 2007), have clear neoliberal”
From Short Food Supply Chains to Sustainable Agriculture in Urban Food Systems: Food Democracy as a Vector of Transition (2016, background): “in order to facilitate a debate on what kinds of labels can support the emergence of a ‘food democracy’ and in what way, as well as—or instead of—neoliberal governance [71].”
Embedding Local Places in Global Spaces: Geographical Indications as a Territorial Development Strategy (2010, background): “Struggles over definitions shape market access and the distribution of profits, privileging certain actors while excluding others (Guthman 2007; Renard 2005; Valceschini and Nicolas 1995).”
The mirror of consumption: Celebritization, developmental consumption and the shifting cultural politics of fair trade (2010, background): “For me—and I would guess for Guthman (2007) —in the desire to develop more collective politicized subjects in the consumers of fair trade and Northern consumers more generally, it really is the means that matter just as much as the ends when considering the specific practices and processes of how, ”
Impacts of Fair Trade certification on coffee farmers, cooperatives, and laborers in Nicaragua (2010, background): “According to several researchers, this may impair Fair Trade’s ability to empower marginalized producers and to transform the power asymmetries prevalent in conventional coffee trade (Daviron and Ponte 2005; Guthman 2007; Renard 2005; Taylor 2005).”
Organizations, Regulation, and Economic Behavior: Regulatory Dynamics and Forms from the Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century (2008, background): “But it is in the past two decades, after experiments with organic certification in the 1970s (Guthman 2007), that certification has become a prominent mode of social and environmental regulation.”
Empowering Coffee Traders? The Coffee Value Chain from Nicaraguan Fair Trade Farmers to Finnish Consumers (2010, background): “First, Fair Trade production has a barrier to entry - certification - with a restricted number of producer organizations being certified (Guthman, 2007).”