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Market, Morality and (Just) Price: The Case of the Recycling Economy in Turkey

In: The Politics and Ethics of the Just Price

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  • Demet Ş. Dinler

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By drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted amongst waste-pickers and recycling traders in the waste paper, plastic and scrap metal sectors, and engaging with literature from economic anthropology and history, as well as archival sources, this paper documents changing perceptions of just price, morality and fairness in the Turkish recycling market. The paper suggests that multiple markets imply multiple prices, which are contingent and contested. When dealing with price mechanisms largely outside their control, actors tend to associate a fair price with the going market price, rather than factors such as state regulation. Approaches to morality and assessments of fairness become more ambiguous when prices are mediated by actors’ own practices. These range from gift relations to paternalism, envy and deception.

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  • Demet Ş. Dinler, 2019. "Market, Morality and (Just) Price: The Case of the Recycling Economy in Turkey," Research in Economic Anthropology, in: The Politics and Ethics of the Just Price, volume 39, pages 27-47, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:reanzz:s0190-128120190000039002
    DOI: 10.1108/S0190-128120190000039002
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