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Fairtrade towns: place(ing) responsibility

Samuel, Anthony ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4483-4600 and Emanuel, Louise 2012. Fairtrade towns: place(ing) responsibility. Space and Flows: an International Journal of Urban & ExtraUrban Studies 2 (2) , pp. 191-202.

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Abstract

This paper discusses the nature of place within the context of the Fair Trade Movement, and examines notions of responsibility and authenticity as key factors in the emergence of contemporary places. Fairtrade Towns are considered as the embodiment of socially constructed places that reflect a search for the authentic, combined with an extended responsibility which transcends space and encompasses what authors such as Barnett et al. (2005) and Massey (2005) have suggested to be ‘place beyond place.’ The Fairtrade Town, through its aim to influence patterns and processes of consumption, is consequently considered as a mechanism for place(ing) responsibility, for in effect enabling global citizenship to become part of the fabric of places and for enabling the authentic to return to the place of the here and now, rather than the other and then.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Business (Including Economics)
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General)
H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Fair Trade, Fairtrade Towns, Responsibility, Citizenship, Place, Ethical Consumer, Consumption, Space, Socially Constructed
Publisher: CGPublisher
ISSN: 2154-8676
Last Modified: 02 Nov 2022 10:16
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/98029

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