Volume 20 Issue 1 (2013)
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Special Issue
PRIVATE AGRI-FOOD STANDARDS – PART 1: CONTESTATION, HYBRIDITY AND THE POLITICS OF STANDARDS
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Editorial Introduction
Private Agri-food Standards: Contestation, Hybridity and the Politics of Standards 1-10
Carmen Bain, Elizabeth Ransom and Vaughan Higgins
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Articles
Standards as Hybrid Forum: Comparison of the Post-Fukushima Radiation Standards 11-29
by a Consumer Cooperative, the Private Sector, and the Japanese Government
Aya Hirata Kimura
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Pushing the Boundaries of the Social:
Private Agri-food Standards and the Governance of Fair Trade in European Public Procurement 31-49
Eleanor Fisher and Hannah Sheppard
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Competing Logics in the Further Standardization of Fair Trade:
ISEAL and the Símbolo de Pequeños Productores 51-68
Marie-Christine Renard and Allison Loconto
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Make It What Way? The Impact of Multiple Standards Regimes 69-89
Danielle Berman
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Entangled Standardizing Networks: The Case of GLOBALGAP and Fairtrade in St Vincent’s Banana Industry 91-108
Haakon Aasprong
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Inferring the Unknown: Enacting Organic Standards through Certification 109-125
Maarten van der Kamp
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The Negotiation of Quality Standards:
Social Interactionist Approach to Fruit and Vegetable Distribution in Argentina 127-146
Maria Laura Viteri and Alberto Arce
International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Published by Michigan State University
Official publication of the Research Committee on Sociology of Agriculture and Food (RC-40)
of the International Sociological Association (ISA)
Editors: Raymond Jussaume, Claire Marris and Katerina Psarikidou
Frequency: 3 issues per year
ISSN: 0798-1759