Fair Trade Rebels

Fair Trade Rebels

Author: Lindsay Naylor

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2019-12-10

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1452962472

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Reassessing interpretations of development with a new approach to fair trade Is fair trade really fair? Who is it for, and who gets to decide? Fair Trade Rebels addresses such questions in a new way by shifting the focus from the abstract concept of fair trade—and whether it is “working”—to the perspectives of small farmers. It examines the everyday experiences of resistance and agricultural practice among the campesinos/as of Chiapas, Mexico, who struggle for dignified livelihoods in self-declared autonomous communities in the highlands, confronting inequalities locally in what is really a global corporate agricultural chain. Based on extensive fieldwork, Fair Trade Rebels draws on stories from Chiapas that have emerged from the farmers’ interaction with both the fair-trade–certified marketplace and state violence. Here Lindsay Naylor discusses the racialized and historical backdrop of coffee production and rebel autonomy in the highlands, underscores the divergence of movements for fairer trade and the so-called alternative certified market, traces the network of such movements from the highlands and into the United States, and evaluates existing food sovereignty and diverse economic exchanges. Putting decolonial thinking in conversation with diverse economies theory, Fair Trade Rebels evaluates fair trade not by the measure of its success or failure but through a unique, place-based approach that expands our understanding of the relationship between fair trade, autonomy, and economic development.


Fair Trade Rebels

Fair Trade Rebels

Author: Lindsay Naylor

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781517905774

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"Fair Trade Rebels is based on extensive fieldwork among rural coffee and corn farmers in Chiapas, Mexico. Examining these farmers' everyday experiences of resistance and daily practice as they seek to address inequalities locally in what is really a global corporate agricultural chain, Naylor is interested in how these fair trade struggles are part of broader efforts on the part of local agricultural actors to create dignified livelihoods"--


Rebel Mechanics

Rebel Mechanics

Author: Shanna Swendson

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2015-07-14

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0374300097

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In 1888 New York City, sixteen-year-old governess Verity Newton agrees to become a spy, whatever the risk, after learning that the man for whom she has feelings sympathizes with rebels developing non-magical sources of power, via steam engines, in hopes of gaining freedom from British rule.


Rebel Spirits

Rebel Spirits

Author: Lois Ruby

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2013-05-28

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0545540208

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Haunted by history. Bound by mystery. Lori Chase doesn't know what to think about ghosts. She may have seen a few in the past, but those were just childish imaginings . . . right? Only now that she is living in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, spirits seem to be on everyone's mind. The town is obsessed with its bloody Civil War history, and the old inn that Lori's parent run is supposedly haunted by the souls of dead soldiers. Then Lori meets one such soldier -- the devastatingly handsome Nathaniel Pierce. Nathaniel's soul cannot rest, and he desperately needs Lori's help. Because Nathaniel was not killed in the famous battle. He was murdered. Lori begins to investigate the age-old mystery, stumbling upon shocking clues and secrets. At the same time, she can't help falling for Nathaniel, just as he is falling for her . . . .


Rebel Hearts

Rebel Hearts

Author: Kevin Toolis

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2015-07-07

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 1250088739

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For ten years Kevin Toolis investigated the lives of the IRA soldiers who wage a secret battle against the British State. His journeys took him from the back kitchens of Belfast, where men joked while making two-thousand-pound bombs, to prisons for interviews with men serving life sentences, and to the graveyards where mourners weep. Each chapter explores a world where history, faith, and human savagery determine life and death. At once moving and harrowing,Rebel Hearts is the most authoritative and insightful book ever written on the IRA.


Food Rebels, Guerrilla Gardeners, and Smart-Cookin' Mamas

Food Rebels, Guerrilla Gardeners, and Smart-Cookin' Mamas

Author: Mark Winne

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2010-10-12

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 0807047341

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In an age of uncertainty about how climate change may affect the global food supply, industrial agribusiness promises to keep the world fed. Through the use of factory “farms,” genetic engineering, and the widespread application of chemicals, they put their trust in technology and ask consumers to put our trust in them. However, a look behind the curtain reveals practices that put our soil, water, and health at risk. What are the alternatives? And can they too feed the world? The rapidly growing alternative food system is made up of people reclaiming their connections to their food and their health. A forty-year veteran of this movement, Mark Winne introduces us to innovative “local doers” leading the charge to bring nutritious, sustainable, and affordable food to all. Heeding Emerson’s call to embrace that great American virtue of self-reliance, these leaders in communities all across the country are defying the authority of the food conglomerates and taking matters into their own hands. They are turning urban wastelands into farms, creating local dairy collectives, preserving farmland, and refusing to use genetically modified seed. They are not only bringing food education to children in elementary schools, but also offering cooking classes to adults in diabetes-prone neighborhoods—and taking the message to college campuses as well. Such efforts promote food democracy and empower communities to create local food-policy councils, build a neighborhood grocery store in the midst of a food desert, or demand healthier school lunches for their kids. Winne’s hope is that all of these programs, scaled up and adopted more widely, will ultimately allow the alternative food system to dethrone the industrial. Food Rebels, Guerrilla Gardeners, and Smart-Cookin’ Mamas challenges us to go beyond eating local to become part of a larger solution, demanding a system that sustains body and soul.


Tales for Little Rebels

Tales for Little Rebels

Author: Julia L. Mickenberg

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2008-11

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 0814757200

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A rarely discussed aspect of children's literature--the politics behind a book's creation--has been thoroughly explored in this intelligent, enlightening, and fascinating account.


Bye Bye, Miss American Empire

Bye Bye, Miss American Empire

Author: Bill Kauffman

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing

Published: 2010-07-10

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1933392800

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This book "traces the historical roots of the secessionist spirit, and introduces us to the often radical, sometimes quixotic, and highly charged movements that want to decentralize and re-localize power"--P. [4] of cover.


Bury the Chains

Bury the Chains

Author: Adam Hochschild

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9780618619078

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This is the story of a handful of men, led by Thomas Clarkson, who defied the slave trade and ignited the first great human rights movement. Beginning in 1788, a group of Abolitionists moved the cause of anti-slavery from the floor of Parliament to the homes of 300,000 people boycotting Caribbean sugar, and gave a platform to freed slaves.


Rebels in Paradise

Rebels in Paradise

Author: Hunter Drohojowska-Philp

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company

Published: 2011-07-19

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780805088366

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The extraordinary story of the artists who propelled themselves to international fame in 1960s Los Angeles Los Angeles, 1960: There was no modern art museum and there were few galleries, which is exactly what a number of daring young artists liked about it, among them Ed Ruscha, David Hockney, Robert Irwin, Bruce Nauman, Judy Chicago and John Baldessari. Freedom from an established way of seeing, making, and marketing art fueled their creativity, which in turn inspired the city. Today Los Angeles has four museums dedicated to contemporary art, around one hundred galleries, and thousands of artists. Here, at last, is the book that tells the saga of how the scene came into being, why a prevailing Los Angeles permissiveness, 1960s-style, spawned countless innovations, including Andy Warhol's first exhibition, Marcel Duchamp's first retrospective, Frank Gehry's mind-bending architecture, Rudi Gernreich's topless bathing suit, Dennis Hopper's Easy Rider, even the Beach Boys, the Byrds, the Doors, and other purveyors of a California style. In the 1960s, Los Angeles was the epicenter of cool.