1,000 words or more of narrative text; no maximum word count.
Double-sp, 12-point Times New Roman font; in-text citations; references section;
Chicago, MLA, or APA format.
Global Commodity Chains & Negative Externalities
The worldwide network of social relations and labor activities involved in the creation, distribution, consumption, and disposal of a commodity
Social relations: labor, capitalists, nation-states, and consumers; society/nature
Labor activities: product design and financing; capture/extraction/cultivation of raw materials; processing; transportation; distribution/sale; purchase/consumption; and disposal
Impacts: socioeconomic, political, environmental
Questions
Global culture of capitalism/global commodity chains
Karl Polanyi’s Paradox
Negative externalities
Internalizing negative externalities
Example: “The coffee commodity chainis the linked sequence of activities involved in growing coffee, processing it, shipping it, roasting it, … selling it to consumers” (John Talbot) and disposing it.
Video example: Coffee https://u.osu.edu/commoditychain2015/ (Links to an external site.)
Scroll down for more examples of global commodity chains and for negative
externalities.
Assignment
Choose either a specific commodity or some aspect of a commodity chain (such as its labor and/or ownership/control conditions; social, economic, environmental, and/or health consequences; political violence/wars; etc.).
Emphasize relationships and activities of labor, capitalists, nation-states, consumers, and the natural environment.
Culture of capitalist/global commodity chains
Karl Polanyi’s Paradox
Negative externalities
Challenges of internalizing externalities (= “sustainability”)
Approximately 750-1000 words of narrative text; college standards of writing; enforcement of penalties for plagiarism
Double-sp 11 or 12-point Times New Roman font; in-text citations; references section; Chicago, MLA, or APA format.
Due via turnitin.com on Canvas by the date and time listed on syllabus. Late papers will not be accepted
If you want to focus on Covid-19 (or any other “signature” disease):
What is the global culture of capitalism? What is “Karl Polanyi’s Paradox”? What are “global commodity chains”? What are “negative externalities”? What are examples of each within the global culture of capitalism?
What are the basic questions to ask about patterns of disease at any point in time and space?
Describe the relationships between (1) culture and disease; (2) cities and disease; (3) environmental change and disease; and (4) human ecology and disease.
What defines a “signature disease” of a specific historical time and pattern of geographic connections? How is Covid-19 an example of a signature disease?
What are arguments–including the relevance of “Karl Polanyi’s Paradox”, “global commodity chains,” and “negative externalities”– for healthcare as a global public good (and as a human right), as opposed to healthcare as an individual, commodified choice?
Global Commodity Chain Examples (see also course syllabus)
“The Palm Oil Effect”
https://www.vogue.com/projects/13535833/palm-oil-controversy-beauty-products-ingredient-sourcing-deforestation-climate-change/ (Links to an external site.)
“Commodifying Nature”
http://www.uky.edu/~tmute2/nature-society/password-protect/ENS201-2015-lecture-PDFs/ENS201-commodification-CCs-shrimp.pdf (Links to an external site.)
“’Food Chains’ Looks at The Real Cost of Your Cheap Tomatoes”
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/11/food-chains-film-sanjay-rawal-tomatoes-immokalee/ (Links to an external site.)
“Migrant Workers in U.S. Seafood Industry”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/08/us-seafood-workers-abuse-immgration-temporary-labor (Links to an external site.)
“Factory Farms: Animal Cruelty, Labor Exploitation”
https://sraproject.org/factory-farms-abuse-animals/ (Links to an external site.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/05/11/i-had-to-wear-pampers-many-poultry-industry-workers-allegedly-cant-even-take-bathroom-breaks/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5535e7aaa7c1 (Links to an external site.)
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/news-blog/the-suburban-lawn-enemy-of-lakes-oc-2009-08-19/ (Links to an external site.)
“Exploited Indian Child Cotton Workers”
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-16639391 (Links to an external site.)
“Bangladesh Factory Fire and Workers”
http://theconversation.com/five-years-after-deadly-factory-fire-bangladeshs-garment-workers-are-still-vulnerable-88027 (Links to an external site.)
“Ugly Beautiful? Counting the Cost of the Global Fashion Industry”
http://geography.org.uk/download/GA_GeogCrewe.pdf (Links to an external site.)
“Domestic Workers Abuse/Exploitation”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAl-ckZRDME (Links to an external site.)
“Janitorial Workers Abuse/Exploitation”
https://corporate.univision.com/corporate/press/2015/06/18/univision-exposes-sexual-abuse-of-women-working-in-the-janitorial-industry-rape-on-the-night-shift-violacion-de-un-sueno-jornada-nocturna-airs-saturday-june-20-2015/ (Links to an external site.)
“The World’s Trash Crisis, and Why Americans Are Oblivious”
http://www.latimes.com/world/global-development/la-fg-global-trash-20160422-20160421-snap-htmlstory.html (Links to an external site.)
The Concept of Externalities
Overview
Internalizing negative externalities
https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/basics/external.htm (Links to an external site.)
https://www.quora.com/What-does-internalizing-the-externality-mean (Links to an external site.)
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Internalising-externalities-continuum_fig1_325565534 (Links to an external site.)
Cost internalization = (more or less) sustainablity
https://www.sustain.ucla.edu/about-us/what-is-sustainability/ (Links to an external site.)
Negative externalities
Vehicles/driving
https://ideas.4brad.com/calculating-all-externalities-driving (Links to an external site.)
Garbage
https://welkerswikinomics.com/blog/2011/02/07/the-most-expensive-garbage-in-the-world/ (Links to an external site.)
Internalizing externalities: The case of garbage
https://welkerswikinomics.com/blog/2011/02/07/the-most-expensive-garbage-in-the-world/ (Links to an external site.)
Suburban lawns
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/news-blog/the-suburban-lawn-enemy-of-lakes-oc-2009-08-19/ (Links to an external site.)
Chemical industries
https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/knowledge/economics/negative-externalities/ (Links to an external site.)
Fracking
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/poor-communities-bear-greatest-burden-from-fracking/ (Links to an external site.)
Palm oil
https://www.fix.com/blog/how-palm-oil-affects-the-environment/ (Links to an external site.)
Industrial agriculture
https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/hidden-costs-industrial-agriculture (Links to an external site.)
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