New Directions in Commodity Chain Analysis of Global Development Processes
New Directions in the Sociology of Global Development
ISBN: 978-0-76231-250-4, eISBN: 978-1-84950-373-0
Publication date: 17 November 2005
Abstract
While some researchers have considered commodity chain analysis to be a tool or method that is “innocent of theory,” or can be combined with any theory, this paper argues that it has a specific set of theoretical investments. It argues that commodity chain analysis emerged in response to criticisms of the determinism, economism, and western bias in earlier development paradigms. Drawing on recent scholarship, it argues that researchers have turned to the study of commodity chains to provide situated and contingent accounts of global political economy that are historically specific, sensitive to culture and meaning, and attentive to subaltern perspectives.
Citation
Collins, J.L. (2005), "New Directions in Commodity Chain Analysis of Global Development Processes", Buttel, F.H. and McMichael, P. (Ed.) New Directions in the Sociology of Global Development (Research in Rural Sociology and Development, Vol. 11), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1057-1922(05)11001-4
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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