Connecting at the edge: Cycles of commodification and labour control within food delivery platform work in Belgium.
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Indigenous Meanings of Provenance in the Context of Alternative Food Movements and Supply-Chain Traceability: A Review
This article reviews the concept of provenance from both contemporary and traditional aspects. The incorporation of indigenous meanings and conceptualizations of belonging into provenance are explored. First, we consider how the gradual transformation of marketplaces into market and consumer activism catalyzed the need for provenance. Guided by thi...
Geographies of Gender: Social Politics of the Partner Dance Venue
The typical partner dance venue will have a standardised layout conducive to the space’s function as a marketplace in which attendees can display their own bodies as commodities. Dancers in the venue will have invested time and money in training, clothing, and grooming to demonstrate the value of their bodies according to the dance’s typically hete...
(Re-)Defining Permaculture: Perspectives of Permaculture Teachers and Practitioners across the United States
The solutions-based design framework of permaculture exhibits transformative potential, working to holistically integrate natural and human systems toward a more just society. The term can be defined and applied in a breadth of ways, contributing to both strengths and weaknesses for its capacity toward change. To explore the tension of breadth as s...
Transnational Religious Tourism in Modern China and the Transformation of the Cult of Mazu
This article explores transformations in the worship of popular goddess Mazu as a result of (religious) tourism. In particular, it focuses on the role of transnational tourism in the invention of tradition, folklorization, and commodification of the Mazu cult. Support from the central and local governments and the impact of economic globalization h...
Jewish Heritage Tourism in Krakow. Authenticity and Commodification Issues
Tourism destinations located within rich and complex cultural contexts tend to offer a wide range of different experiences to visitors, spanning from standardized to more alternative ones. The quest for authenticity is central in the construction of tourism image and business, but easily raises questions related to appropriation, commercialization ...
From Patañjali to the “Gospel of Sweat”: Yoga’s Remarkable Transformation from a Sacred Movement into a Thriving Global ...
Movements seeking to infuse markets with moral values often end up utilizing the market mechanism and support from mainstream actors to scale up, even if it comes at the cost of diluting their founding ethos. But this process can be particularly challenging for movements that are explicitly opposed to using a market mechanism as a means of scaling ...
The Swedish bilberry industry : a case study on food commodification and spatial irrationalities
Fragmentation, commodification and responsibilisation in the governing of flood risk mitigation in Sweden
The purpose of this paper is to increase our understanding of the governing of flood risk mitigation in advanced liberal society, through an in-depth Swedish case study. By combining social network analysis and genealogy, this paper investigates who is involved, how they organise, their modes of thinking, how they mitigate flood risk, as well as ho...
La concurrence dans le secteur social et médico-social : un levier pour le progrès ou un pas risqué vers une société dom...
Les associations du secteur social et médico-social se trouvent de plus en plus plongées dans un contexte nouveau marqué par une mise en concurrence croissante. Cette évolution résulte d’un ensemble de facteurs qui ont influencé l’histoire de l’action sanitaire et sociale. Celle-ci s’est accélérée avec la conversion de l’appareil d’État au nouveau ...
