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Small Product, Big Issues: Value Contestations and Cultural Identities in Cross‐border Commodity Networks

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  • Norman Long
  • Magdalena Villarreal

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This article follows the trajectory of maize husks from their production sites in rural Western Mexico to diverse consumption and commercialization locales both within the country and in the United States, showing how the uses and meanings of specific products are continuously reassembled and transformed within the livelihoods and social networks of Mexicans living in a transnational world. By highlighting the multiplicities and ambiguities of social value and cultural identities implicit in the workings of commodity chains and globalization processes, the study leads to a questioning of commodity‐chain analysis. It also challenges theories of cultural production and circulation based on a unified and hierarchical system of value.

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  • Norman Long & Magdalena Villarreal, 1998. "Small Product, Big Issues: Value Contestations and Cultural Identities in Cross‐border Commodity Networks," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 29(4), pages 725-750, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:devchg:v:29:y:1998:i:4:p:725-750
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-7660.00097
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    1. Annuska Derks & Sarah Turner & Ngô Thúy Hạnh, 2020. "Bastard Spice or Champagne of Cinnamon? Conflicting Value Creations along Cinnamon Commodity Chains in Northern Vietnam," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 51(3), pages 895-920, May.
    2. Hellin, Jon & Lundy, Mark & Meijer, Madelon, 2007. "Farmer organization, collective action and market access in Meso-America," CAPRi working papers 67, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    3. Beth Bee, 2014. "“Si no comemos tortilla, no vivimos:” women, climate change, and food security in central Mexico," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 31(4), pages 607-620, December.
    4. Villarreal, Magdalena, 2018. "The social fabric of a debt economy: Mexican immigrants in the 2008 mortgage crisis," economic sociology. perspectives and conversations, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, vol. 20(1), pages 11-17.
    5. Norman Long & Jinlong Liu, 2009. "The Centrality of Actors and Interfaces in the Understanding of New Ruralities: A Chinese Case Study," Journal of Current Chinese Affairs - China aktuell, Institute of Asian Studies, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, vol. 38(4), pages 63-84.

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