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Fair trade articles in Mexico, particularly in Oaxaca.
Transnational Social Movements, Solidarity Values and the Grassroots: The Fair Trade Movement, Mexican Coffee Producers and a European NGO Coalition
Publicado el 31 de Mayo 2005 | Leer artículo
This paper explores the points of convergence and digression of the Trade Justice Movement and the Fair Trade Market in Northern countries and the Mexican peasant project, through the framework of transnational social movements. It concerns the way solidarity relations between northern social movements and southern social movements are carried out, the extent they can ...
Transnational Social Movements, Solidarity Values and the Grassroots: Introduction
Publicado el 31 de Mayo 2005 | Leer artículo
This paper explores the points of convergence and digression of the Trade Justice Movement and the Fair Trade Market in Northern countries and the Mexican peasant project, through the framework of transnational social movements. It concerns the way solidarity relations between northern social movements and southern social movements are carried out, the extent they can ...
Transnational Solidarity Movements and the Intangible Strategies
Publicado el 31 de Mayo 2005 | Leer artículo
The two main theories concerning Transnational Social Movements are the Resource Mobilization Theory (RMT) and to a less extent the New Social Movements (NSM’s) Theory. It seems that both the RM and NSMs theories appear to have been made to suit specific types of social mobilisation. NSMs theory, which attempts to supersede class based analysis, ...
The Role of Values in Transnational Social Movements
Publicado el 31 de Mayo 2005 | Leer artículo
A central concern of this paper is the role of values as a target and as key symbolic element of movements strategies. Values are a factor not only in transnational movements, but also in the domestic environment of movements, this section focuses on an aspect of values that is rarely conceptualised in depth, or considered ...
The Norm Implementation Role of Transnational Social Movements
Publicado el 31 de Mayo 2005 | Leer artículo
Among the multiple definitions of a social movements, some categorize the manifestations and general aims that move activism. A short review follows of some of the different classifications of social movements, principally transnational ones. R. Cohen, using an early model from Aberle and Wilson, suggests four kinds of social movements, namely ‘transformative’, reformative, redemptive and ...
Fair Trade as a Movement
Publicado el 31 de Mayo 2005 | Leer artículo
At the present time neo-liberal values, whose beginning some situate in the Bretton Woods conference, are spreading and starting to prevail in the world political economy, in governments’ and multilateral agencies’ policies. However this happens mostly around policies and not necessarily in peoples’ projects and the so-called civil society. One example is world trade. There ...
Some considerations about the trajectory of the Fair Trade Market
Publicado el 31 de Mayo 2005 | Leer artículo
As L. Waridel (2002: 93) points out, it is not easy to say when the Fair Trade movement started or whether it is situated exclusively in the North. None of the literature reviewed about Fair Trade mentions such initiatives within any country from the South. Through the relatively little material published about the history of ...
Fair Trade Labelling Organizations International (FLO Int)
Publicado el 31 de Mayo 2005 | Leer artículo
In 1997, the three certification initiatives TransFair, Max Havelaar, and the Fair Trade Foundation, along with Swedish and a Finnish labelling organisations with their own satellite organisations across Europe, America, and Asia, came together to build up an umbrella called Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO-International) in order to standardise the certification process (Waridel, 2002:96). The ...
Symbolic values and the symbolic power of values
Publicado el 31 de Mayo 2005 | Leer artículo
Any consumer that has read a Fair Trade leaflet about how the system works, is aware that he or she is paying a higher price than for conventional products, as one of the FT mechanisms that enable the ‘third world’ producers to make a better deal. This over-price is justified through the set of symbolic ...
Peasant movements struggles for the appropriation of the production process
Publicado el 31 de Mayo 2005 | Leer artículo
This section will not review in depth the concept of peasantry and the categorizations associated with it, but develop a set of starting points to frame in broad terms this approach to the productive character of Mexican peasantry. It will show through some examples, the way the Mexican peasantry have organised in official or independent ...
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