GEOG 361 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Peanut Butter, Free Trade
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The geography of breakfast: a haligonian breakfast. The complex global geography of production: commodities like the iphone materially and socially embody unbelievable complex geographies of production. Commodity fetishism: become obsessed with the commodity as a finished, final object. In that process, forgotten about the various processes (geographical process) involved in its production. Thi(cid:374)k of (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)odit(cid:455) as o(cid:374)l(cid:455) a thi(cid:374)g that(cid:859)s (cid:373)erged, read(cid:455) (cid:373)ade, i(cid:374) fi(cid:374)al for(cid:373) for our pleasure(no history, no geography) We have a moral and political responsibility to know where goods come from: (cid:862)to defetishize(cid:863) Disrupt commodity fetishism: make us realise to ask the question: where did the commodity come from, how were they made: hope to move us away from fetishism that clouds our views, a(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) to grasp to (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)odit(cid:455)(cid:859)s trails. Ian cook and commodity chains: defetishizes commodities by carrying out a commodity chain analysis, studying commodity chains allows you to see unambiguously where goods come from.
