GEOG 2230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Marine Stewardship Council, Sustainable Seafood, Imagined Geographies
21 Oct 2017
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Commodity: a good or service that enters into the market and is available for purchase at a price. (longer-standing definition more specifically sees a commodity as a good or service that is non- differentiable in the market-place. Commodification: process through which new good or service becomes available for exchange in capitalist market(s). The use of imagined geographies to sell products. Many advertisements tend to emphasize certain personalized values and emotions that are asso(cid:272)iated (cid:449)ith the produ(cid:272)ts: lo(cid:448)e, passio(cid:374), ro(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e, (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)it(cid:373)e(cid:374)t . Missing the social and environmental relations and conditions of production. Where in the chain is value added and where is wealth retained? (are these different places?) Commodity chains as representative of the whole system of connections between different groups of people that have enabled the consumer to make a purchase. Global complexity enabled by improved transport, communications, and logistics. Dynamic and liable to rapid change (flexibility in source contracting especially important)
