Fair trade in Oaxaca

Abstract 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 … [Leer más...] acerca de Fair Trade Movement, Mexican Coffee Producers and a European NGO Coalition: Abstract

Abstract 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 … [Leer más...] acerca de Transnational Social Movements, Solidarity Values and the Grassroots: Introduction

Current theorisations of Transnational Social Movements 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 … [Leer más...] acerca de Transnational Solidarity Movements and the Intangible Strategies

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 … [Leer más...] acerca de The Role of Values in Transnational Social Movements

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 … [Leer más...] acerca de The Norm Implementation Role of Transnational Social Movements

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’ … [Leer más...] acerca de Fair Trade as a Movement

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 … [Leer más...] acerca de Some considerations about the trajectory of the Fair Trade Market

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[i], came together to build up an umbrella called Fairtrade Labelling Organizations … [Leer más...] acerca de Fair Trade Labelling Organizations International (FLO Int)

Symbolic values and Fair Trade 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 … [Leer más...] acerca de Symbolic values and the symbolic power of values

An approach to the concepts. 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 … [Leer más...] acerca de Peasant movements struggles for the appropriation of the production process

This section does not try to make a summary, but stresses three key moments that contributed to shape the character and development of the peasantry as a social, economical and political actor in the 20th century. To understand the dynamic of agricultural producers, it is convenient, first, to be situated in the … [Leer más...] acerca de Some basic factors introducing the peasantry in Mexico

At the end of the 1970 the first attempts began for the coordination of a national peasant movement, and from this decade onwards the peasant struggles, previously isolated by regions or levels of strength, became of national character. The fight for land and the formation of the big independent peasant centrals were … [Leer más...] acerca de Some actors in the independent peasant movement