Environmentalism, Ethical Trade, and Commodification - Technologies of Value and the Forest Stewardship Council in Chile

Informationen zum Autor Adam Henne is Assistant Professor of International Studies & Anthropology at the University of Wyoming. Klappentext This ethnographic study documents the competing ideas about how to manage a forest - or even what a forest is - and considers the role of ethical trade initiatives in creating sustainable, survivable global futures. Through a case study of the global connections between Chilean landscapes and Northern consumers embodied in the Forest Services Council, the book explores what knowledges and values are expressed or silenced when sustainability is defined and pursued through market mechanisms. Zusammenfassung This book explores the global connections between Chilean landscapes and Northern consumers embodied by the Forest Stewardship Council logo! the green seal of approval for certified sustainably-produced "good wood." How do we decide what makes good forestry? What knowledges and values are expressed or silenced when "good" is defined with a market mechanism like certification? Henne's ethnographic study documents the new forms of labor and the new expectations about sustainability and responsibility that certification generates! in the context of the competing ideas about how to manage a forest - or even what a forest is - that constitute forest certification in Chile. A critical analysis of certification's practices helps understand the role of ethical trade initiatives in creating sustainable! survivable global futures. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: Knowledge and Nature 1. Introduction: Good Wood 2. Making Wood and Making Persons 3. Putting Knowledge to Work 4. Green Lungs 5. Certification and the Politics of Scale 6. Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Adam Henne, Adam (University of Wyoming Henne, Henne Adam
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780815346654
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-4665-4
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology; Routledge Studies in Anthropology
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Chile, Sustainability, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Business ethics & social responsibility, Science / Environmental Science, Social and cultural anthropology, Business ethics and social responsibility, Development Studies, Development economics and emerging economies, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Global South / Developing countries