Lindsay Naylor: Who does "fair trade" really serve and benefit?
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Who does “fair trade” as a certification program speaking to conscious consumers really serve? How might it fall short of what it promises—supporting farmers and producers from falling into the deepest pits of poverty while paradoxically also keeping them at a certain level? What does the process of rebuilding power entail for communities who are grappling with local inequalities within a larger global corporate agricultural chain?
In this episode, we converse with author and geography Lindsay Naylor as she delves into the daily acts of resistance and agricultural practices by the campesinos/as of Chiapas, Mexico, in their pursuit of dignified livelihoods and self-declared autonomous communities. Drawing from her fieldwork, Naylor explores interaction with fair trade markets and state violence within the context of the radical history of coffee production.
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| 0:00.0 | I have a quick but important ask. As you're probably aware, Green Dreamer is an independent |
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| 0:54.5 | One of the more important things for me to think about was, |
| 0:58.4 | how are these people trying to live well? |
| 1:00.5 | Like, what are the strategies that they're putting into place? |
| 1:02.8 | Not necessarily to have power over other folks, |
| 1:05.5 | but to distribute the power relations in the community |
| 1:10.0 | so that everybody is working towards what they |
| 1:13.7 | call dignified livelihoods while they're still in resistance. |
| 1:16.5 | And that is incredibly important. |
| 1:24.5 | You're listening to Green Dreamer, and I'm your host, Kamehashane. |
| 1:29.0 | Today we are speaking with Lindsay Naylor, who uses climate change, food, and agricultural |
| 1:34.2 | production as a lens to explore human environment interactions and geopolitical conditions of |
| 1:40.3 | development. As a feminist political geographer, she's primarily interested in investigating |
| 1:46.5 | the multi-sided geo of geopolitics and examining how it is written unevenly across space, place, |
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