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Fair Trade and justice: a comment on Walton and Deneulin

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  • Jérôme Ballet
  • Delphine Pouchain

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In this article we first point out that the different conceptualisations of Fair Trade, which are sometimes analytically contradictory, actually form a coordinated set. Understanding the Fair Trade project is impossible without taking these interlinked conceptualisations into consideration. Second, this set basically forms a mechanism of structural, institutional and moral reforms that guide actions. In this way Fair Trade sets out to produce less injustice than is usually the case with the structures and institutions that govern conventional trade. Nevertheless, it does not try to define what a just society is or even to perfectly define ‘fair trade’. This implies the adoption of a comparative justice angle. It is precisely by linking comparative individual situations with the structures that produce these situations that relative justice can find its strength and purpose.

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  • Jérôme Ballet & Delphine Pouchain, 2015. "Fair Trade and justice: a comment on Walton and Deneulin," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(8), pages 1421-1436, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:36:y:2015:i:8:p:1421-1436
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2015.1042968
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    1. Anne Marchais-Roubelat & Lahcen Benbihi, 2019. "Démocratie et gouvernance dans la certification commerce équitable : le cas des coopératives féminines de production d’huile d’argan au Maroc," Post-Print hal-02367154, HAL.

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