Results 61 to 70 of about 16,237 (224)

Just Doing It. The Imaginary, the Symbolic and the Real in Nike's Commodity Fetish [PDF]

, 2008
Since the mid-1990s Nike has been in the 'bad books' of left-leaning commentators, anti-capitalist movements and other protesters and academics alike because of its production practices in 'third world' sweatshops. The term ?sweatshop?
Batta, Aanka, Boehm, Steffen
core  

Vine to Wine: An Analysis of Value Construction or Destruction at the Point of Production [PDF]

, 2016
. Due to topographic circumstances, the Finger Lakes Region of New York is capable of producing wine; albeit the region is limited by the climate and soil types of this region.
DHAMEETH, Gehan S.
core   +2 more sources

The spatiality of performative authenticity on social media: A geographical understanding of young African fashion microcelebrities

Geographical Research, Volume 64, Issue 1, February 2026.
On social media, authenticity is not only performed but also performative through socio‐spatial practices. African fashion microcelebrities’ practices of branding, locating, and peopling illustrate the spatiality in enacting performative authenticity. ‘Peopling’ is not merely to popularise the discursive space as showed; it compels microcelebrities to ...
Allen Hai Xiao, Qingyi Yan
wiley   +1 more source

Was the Inca Economy Based on “Protomoney”? Or, Why Accounting Systems Should Not Be Conflated With Concepts of Exchange Value

Economic Anthropology, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT The khipu knotted string records in the ancient Andes were accounting systems, but they did not indicate any concepts of commensurability or exchange value. They were not incipient money; instead, monetized commerce appears to have predated the economic organization of the Inca society. The article begins by tracing the emergence of coinage in
Alf Hornborg
wiley   +1 more source

'SUPERCARGO', the Art of Peter Moosgaard

Journal of Extreme Anthropology, 2017
A student essay for the Special Student Issue of the Journal of Extreme Anthropology accompanying the art exhibition 'Artist's Waste, Wasted Artists', which opened in Vienna on the 19th of September 2017 and was curated by the students of social ...
Martin Ochsenhofer
doaj   +1 more source

Generations, Genesis, and Genetically Engineered Plants: Fall and Salvation Narratives that Question The Goodness of Creation [PDF]

, 2012
As salvation and fall narratives predominate the arenas of both theology and biotechnology, the author presents here an exploration of the ethical and ecological implications of such narratives as they aim to moderate the relationship of human beings to ...
Roskos, Nicole
core   +1 more source

Social Entrepreneurship: Metaphysics of Entrepreneurship in Practice [PDF]

, 2016
Contemporary capitalism is in such a condition that the recent objectives of enterprises’ actions neither ensure that the owners of enterprises have any mode of justification nor guarantee legitimization by civil communities, which leads to destructive ...
Baryshev, Aleksey Andreevich, Barysheva, Galina Anzelmovna   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Small‐Scale Village Farmers, Farming Imaginaries and Enrichment Value Creation in Ankara, Turkey

Journal of Agrarian Change, Volume 26, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT How are we to understand the continuing importance of small‐scale village farming in a country like Turkey, which is undergoing an expanding process of industrialization and commodification in agriculture? There are two sides to this question: One concerns land use reconfiguration for commercial purposes, contraction of small‐scale farmland ...
Yıldız Atasoy
wiley   +1 more source

Between fetishism and survival : is the scientific article an academic commodity? [PDF]

, 2007
This article discusses the possible meanings of the intense prevailing concern in academic circles over the notion of research productivity, as reflected in an excess number of articles published in various scientific journals.
Castiel, Luis D., Sanz-Valero, Javier
core  

Olakwa Ndani? commodity fetishism and resistance in Evison Matafale’s reggae music

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
This paper examines the relevance of Karl Marx’s theory of commodity fetishism in African postcolonial contexts, using Malawian reggae artist Evison Matafale’s 1999 song, “Olakwa Ndani?” (“Who is to Blame?”) as a case study.
Jimmy Kainja
doaj   +1 more source