Traditional beneficiaries: trade bans, exemptions, and morality embodied in diets
Abstract Research on the nutrition transition often treats dietary changes as an outcome of increased trade and urban living. The Northern Food Crisis presents a puzzle since it involves hunger and changing diets, but coincides with a European ban on trade in seal products. I look to insights from e...
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ftrepec:oai:RePEc:spr:agrhuv:v:35:y:2018:i:2:d:10.1007_s10460-017-9846-0 2023-05-15T16:54:44+02:00 Traditional beneficiaries: trade bans, exemptions, and morality embodied in diets Kristie O’Neill http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10460-017-9846-0 unknown http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10460-017-9846-0 article ftrepec 2020-12-04T13:30:38Z Abstract Research on the nutrition transition often treats dietary changes as an outcome of increased trade and urban living. The Northern Food Crisis presents a puzzle since it involves hunger and changing diets, but coincides with a European ban on trade in seal products. I look to insights from economic sociology and decolonizing scholarship to make sense of the ban on seal products and its impacts. I examine how trade arrangements enact power imbalances in ways that are not always obvious. I explain how the ban’s exemption for Inuit-produced seal goods explicitly aims to protect Inuit from the harshness of capitalism and preserve their traditions. In this respect, the Northern Food Crisis is an embodiment of European visions of who Inuit are expected to be and how they are supposed to act in the global economy. Food, Trade, Nutrition transition, Economic sociology, Seal Article in Journal/Newspaper inuit RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) |
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Abstract Research on the nutrition transition often treats dietary changes as an outcome of increased trade and urban living. The Northern Food Crisis presents a puzzle since it involves hunger and changing diets, but coincides with a European ban on trade in seal products. I look to insights from economic sociology and decolonizing scholarship to make sense of the ban on seal products and its impacts. I examine how trade arrangements enact power imbalances in ways that are not always obvious. I explain how the ban’s exemption for Inuit-produced seal goods explicitly aims to protect Inuit from the harshness of capitalism and preserve their traditions. In this respect, the Northern Food Crisis is an embodiment of European visions of who Inuit are expected to be and how they are supposed to act in the global economy. Food, Trade, Nutrition transition, Economic sociology, Seal |
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