The Cultural And Political Intersection Of Fair Trade And Justice: Managing A Global Industry Hardcover

India

Tamara L. Stenn

The Cultural and Political Intersection of Fair Trade and Justice is an ethnographic study of the effects of Fair Trade on indigenous women, as reported by the women themselves, and seeks to develop a deeper understanding of Fair Trade, globalization, culture, and policy in building justice.

1137335270

9781137335272

English

Palgrave MacMillan

08 Oct 2013

262

Tamara L. Stenn is an Adjunct Professor in the Integrative Studies Program at Keene State College, Keene, USA. She is also the Founder and Director of Ayllu, Inc., a non-profit (501c3) that creates educational programs and intercultural projects which support place-based and indigenous knowledge, practices, and peoples in the spirit of reciprocity and KUSIKUY Clothing Company, a Fair Trade, handmade, natural fiber knitting business with production in South America's Andes Mountains. She has spent the last 15 years traveling to South America to research and work with indigenous artisans involved in Fair Trade.

Establishing more just economic exchange is at the heart of building an equitable world. Tamara Stenn does an admirable job of addressing this topic in a comprehensive study of Fair Trade that does not shy away from either its inherent complexities or contradictions, but rather draws on social science theories to illuminate them. Situating Fair Trade within its cultural context in this case the Bolivian Andes and local concepts of living well demonstrates that what it brings particularly to women goes far beyond the strictly economic. Innovative and creative exercises at the end of each chapter are an added bonus. -Linda Farthing, author, From the Mines to the Streets: A Bolivian Activist's Life and Bolivia on Balance: Evo and the Process of Change (forthcoming)