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TY - JOUR
T1 - Mob Justice and ‘The Civilized Commodity’
AU - Neimark, Benjamin
AU - Osterhoudt, Sarah
AU - Blum, Lloyd
AU - Healy , Tim
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Peasant Studies on 10/12/2019, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03066150.2019.1680543
PY - 2021/6/30
Y1 - 2021/6/30
N2 - Our theory of ‘the civilized commodity' examines ‘mob violence' affecting high-value commodities, including the vanilla boom of Madagascar. We illustrate producers' labor under fraught conditions of violence and contradictory claims of ‘street justice.' Specifically we ask, what counts as justice and to whom? We highlights broader arguments around ‘moral hyper-proximity' of producer-consumer relations, and the strategies of state and market actors to circulate ‘civilized' visions for systemic and future governance over commodity landscapes. State and market calls for ‘law and order,' however, obscure the structural inequities faced by smallholders in their ‘everyday’ production of commodities under periodic crisis.
AB - Our theory of ‘the civilized commodity' examines ‘mob violence' affecting high-value commodities, including the vanilla boom of Madagascar. We illustrate producers' labor under fraught conditions of violence and contradictory claims of ‘street justice.' Specifically we ask, what counts as justice and to whom? We highlights broader arguments around ‘moral hyper-proximity' of producer-consumer relations, and the strategies of state and market actors to circulate ‘civilized' visions for systemic and future governance over commodity landscapes. State and market calls for ‘law and order,' however, obscure the structural inequities faced by smallholders in their ‘everyday’ production of commodities under periodic crisis.
KW - Commodities
KW - Moral economy
KW - Africa/Madagascar
KW - Political ecology
KW - State violence
KW - Street justice
U2 - 10.1080/03066150.2019.1680543
DO - 10.1080/03066150.2019.1680543
M3 - Journal article
VL - 48
SP - 734
EP - 753
JO - The Journal of Peasant Studies
JF - The Journal of Peasant Studies
SN - 0306-6150
IS - 4
ER -