Assembling Flowers And Cultivating Homes

Author : Greta Friedemann-Sánchez
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0739109790

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Assembling Flowers and Cultivating Homes by Greta Friedemann-Sánchez Pdf

This ethnographic study explores the links between agro-industrial employment in the context of economic adjustment programs and the individual experience of employment and economic change at the household level. Author Greta Friedemann-Sánchez's challenges the current academic consensus that transnational assembly line industries reinforce patriarchal ideologies of reproduction and the exploitation of women.

Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : New York (State)
ISBN : UIUC:30112105559881

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Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly Pdf

Author : Catherine Ziegler
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0822340267

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Favored Flowers by Catherine Ziegler Pdf

DIVCultural history of the flower trade in New York City and the transformation of the cut-flower industry into a global commodity system./div

Author : Amy Stewart
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781565126459

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Flower Confidential by Amy Stewart Pdf

Award-winning author Amy Stewart takes readers on an around-the-world, behind-the-scenes look at the flower industry and how it has sought—for better or worse—to achieve perfection. She tracks down the hybridizers, geneticists, farmers, and florists working to invent, manufacture, and sell flowers that are bigger, brighter, and sturdier than anything nature can provide. There's a scientist intent on developing the first genetically modified blue rose; an eccentric horitcultural legend who created the most popular lily; a breeder of gerberas of every color imaginable; and an Ecuadorean farmer growing exquisite roses, the floral equivalent of a Tiffany diamond. And, at every turn she discovers the startling intersection of nature and technology, of sentiment and commerce.

Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3000405

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Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly Pdf

Author : Gerda Kuiper
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030180461

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Agro-industrial Labour in Kenya by Gerda Kuiper Pdf

This ethnography analyses labour relations within the export-oriented cut flower industry at Lake Naivasha in Kenya. Though this agro-industry has attracted critical attention from journalists and non-governmental organizations, this book is the first comprehensive, social scientific analysis of the industry’s labour arrangements and production processes. Gerda Kuiper here interprets the work on the farms as ‘agro-industrial labour’: a labour system characterized by high levels of discipline and a strict rhythm of work, due to the demands posed by a highly perishable agricultural product. This framework enables the author to draw on insights from a wide range of anthropological and sociological studies on (agro-)industrial wage labour around the globe. This mixed-methods approach, deployed alongside rich ethnographic detail, allows the author to center the flower farm workers in her analysis.

Author : Missouri. General Assembly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1946 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112109849163

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Appendix to the House and Senate Journals of the ... General Assembly of the State of Missouri by Missouri. General Assembly Pdf

Author : Mark Moberg,Sarah Lyon
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814796221

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Fair Trade and Social Justice by Mark Moberg,Sarah Lyon Pdf

By 2008, total Fair Trade purchases in the developed world reached nearly $3 billion, a five-fold increase in four years. Consumers pay a “fair price” for Fair Trade items, which are meant to generate greater earnings for family farmers, cover the costs of production, and support socially just and environmentally sound practices. Yet constrained by existing markets and the entities that dominate them, Fair Trade often delivers material improvements for producers that are much more modest than the profound social transformations the movement claims to support. There has been scant real-world assessment of Fair Trade’s effectiveness. Drawing upon fine-grained anthropological studies of a variety of regions and commodity systems including Darjeeling tea, coffee, crafts, and cut flowers, the chapters in Fair Trade and Social Justice represent the first works to use ethnographic case studies to assess whether the Fair Trade Movement is actually achieving its goals. Contributors: Julia Smith, Mark Moberg, Catherine Ziegler , Sarah Besky, Sarah M. Lyon, Catherine S. Dolan, Patrick C. Wilson, Faidra Papavasiliou, Molly Doane, Kathy M’Closkey, Jane Henrici

Author : Megan A. Styles
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295746524

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Roses from Kenya by Megan A. Styles Pdf

Kenya supplies more than 35 percent of the fresh-cut roses and other flowers sold annually in the European Union. This industry—which employs at least 90,000 workers, most of whom are women—is lucrative but enduringly controversial. More than half the flowers are grown near the shores of Lake Naivasha, a freshwater lake northwest of Nairobi recognized as a Ramsar site, a wetland of international importance. Critics decry the environmental side effects of floriculture, and human rights activists demand better wages and living conditions for workers. In this rich portrait of Kenyan floriculture, Megan Styles presents the point of view of local workers and investigates how the industry shapes Kenyan livelihoods, landscapes, and politics. She investigates the experiences and perspectives of low-wage farmworkers and the more elite actors whose lives revolve around floriculture, including farm managers and owners, Kenyan officials, and the human rights and environmental activists advocating for reform. By exploring these perspectives together, Styles reveals the complex and contradictory ways that rose farming shapes contemporary Kenya. She also shows how the rose industry connects Kenya to the world, and how Kenyan actors perceive these connections. As a key space of encounter, Lake Naivasha is a synergistic center where many actors seek to solve broader Kenyan social and environmental problems using the global flows of people, information, and money generated by floriculture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004695429

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Agricultural Intensification, Environmental Conservation, Conflict and Co-Existence at Lake Naivasha, Kenya by Anonim Pdf

This interdisciplinary volume provides a comprehensive and rich analysis of the century-long socio-ecological transformation of Lake Naivasha, Kenya. Major globalised processes of agricultural intensification, biodiversity conservation efforts, and natural-resource extraction have simultaneously manifested themselves in this one location. These processes have roots in the colonial period and have intensified in the past decades, after the establishment of the cut-flower industry and the geothermal-energy industry. The chapters in this volume exemplify the multiple, intertwined socio-environmental crises that consequently have played out in Naivasha in the past and the present, and that continue to shape its future.

Author : Randy Malamud
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781789144215

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Strange Bright Blooms by Randy Malamud Pdf

Virginia Woolf famously began one of her greatest novels: “Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.” Of course she would: why would anyone surrender the best part of the day to someone else? Flowers grace our lives at moments of celebration and despair. “We eat, drink, sing, dance, and flirt with them,” writes Kakuzo Okakura. Flowers brighten our homes, our parties, and our rituals with incomparable notes of natural beauty, but the “nature” in these displays is tamed and conscribed. Randy Malamud seeks to understand the transplanted nature of cut flowers—of our relationship with them and the careful curation of their very existence. It is a picaresque, unpredictable ramble through the world of flowers, but also the world itself, exploring painting, murals, fashion, public art, glass flowers, pressed flowers, flowery church hats, weaponized flowers, deconstructed flowers, flower power, and much more.

Author : Kate Bedford
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780816665396

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Developing Partnerships by Kate Bedford Pdf

A nuanced critique of how the World Bank encourages gender norms through its policies, Developing Partnerships argues that financial institutions are key players in the global enforcement of gender and family expectations. By combining analysis of documents produced and sponsored by the World Bank with interviews of World Bank staffers and case studies, Kate Bedford presents a detailed examination of gender and sexuality in the policies of the world's largest and most influential development institution. Looking concurrently at economic and gender policy, Bedford connects reform of markets to reform of masculinities, loan agreements for export promotion to pamphlets for indigenous adolescents advising daily genital bathing, and attempts to strengthen institutions after the Washington Consensus to efforts to promote loving couplehood in response to economic crisis. In doing so, she reveals the shifting relationships between development and sexuality and the ways in which gender policy impacts debates about the future of neoliberalism. Providing a multilayered account of how gender-aware policies are conceived and implemented by the World Bank, Developing Partnerships demonstrates as well how institutional practices shape development.

Author : Nancy Folbre
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786632920

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The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems by Nancy Folbre Pdf

Why do patriarchal systems survive? In this groundbreaking work of feminist theory, Nancy Folbre examines the contradictory effects of capitalist development. She explains why the work of caring for others is under-valued and under-rewarded in today's global economy, calling attention to the organisation of childrearing, the care of other dependants, and the inheritance of assets. Upending conventional definitions of the economy based only on the market, Folbre emphasizes the production of human capabilities in families and communities and the social reproduction of group solidarities. Highlighting the complexity of hierarchical systems and their implications for political coalitions, The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems sets a new feminist agenda for the twenty-first century.

Author : Erynn Masi de Casanova
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292744707

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Making Up the Difference by Erynn Masi de Casanova Pdf

Globalization and economic restructuring have decimated formal jobs in developing countries, pushing many women into informal employment such as direct selling of cosmetics, perfume, and other personal care products as a way to "make up the difference" between household income and expenses. In Ecuador, with its persistent economic crisis and few opportunities for financially and personally rewarding work, women increasingly choose direct selling as a way to earn income by activating their social networks. While few women earn the cars and trips that are iconic prizes in the direct selling organization, many use direct selling as part of a set of household survival strategies. In this first in-depth study of a cosmetics direct selling organization in Latin America, Erynn Masi de Casanova explores women's identities as workers, including their juggling of paid work and domestic responsibilities, their ideas about professional appearance, and their strategies for collecting money from customers. Focusing on women who work for the country's leading direct selling organization, she offers fascinating portraits of the everyday lives of women selling personal care products in Ecuador's largest city, Guayaquil. Addressing gender relations (including a look at men's direct and indirect involvement), the importance of image, and the social and economic context of direct selling, Casanova challenges assumptions that this kind of flexible employment resolves women's work/home conflicts and offers an important new perspective on women's work in developing countries.

Author : John Hartigan Jr.
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452955490

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Care of the Species by John Hartigan Jr. Pdf

Across the globe, an expanding circle of care is encompassing a growing number of species through efforts targeting biodiversity, profoundly revising the line between humans and nonhumans. Care of the Species examines infrastructures of care—labs and gardens in Spain and Mexico—where plant scientists grapple with the complexities of evolution and domestication. John Hartigan Jr. uses ethnography to access the expertise of botanists and others engaged with cultivating biodiversity, providing various entry points for understanding plants in the world around us. He begins by tracing the historical emergence of race through practices of care on nonhumans, showing how this history informs current thinking about conservation. With geneticists working on maize, Hartigan deploys Foucault’s concept of care of the self to analyze how domesticated species are augmented by an afterlife of data. In the botanical gardens of Spain, Care of the Species explores seed banks, herbariums, and living collections, depicting the range of ways people interact with botanical knowledge. This culminates in Hartigan’s effort to engage plants as ethnographic subjects through a series of imaginative “interview” techniques. Care of the Species contributes to debates about the concept of species through vivid ethnography, developing a cultural perspective on evolutionary dynamics while using ethnography to theorize species. In tackling the racial dimension of efforts to go “beyond the human,” this book reveals a far greater stratum of sameness than commonly assumed.