Peter G. Luetchford is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sussex and has carried out field research in Costa Rica and Spain. He has published on ethics and the economy, including Fair Trade and a Global Commodity: Coffee in Costa Rica (Pluto Press, 2008) and he is co-editor of Hidden Hands in the Market: Ethnographies of Fair Trade, Ethical Consumption and Corporate Social Responsibility (Research in Economic Anthropology 2008).

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Preface

Introduction
James G. Carrier

Section I: Producers and Consumers

Section Introduction

Chapter 1. Good chocolate? An examination of ethical consumption in cocoa
Amanda Berlan

Chapter 2. Consuming producers: fair trade and small farmers
Peter G. Luetchford

Chapter 3. 'Trade, not aid': imagining ethical economy
Lill Vramo

Chapter 4. 'Today, one can farm organic without living organic': Belgian farmers and recent changes in organic farming
Audrey Vankeerberghen

Section II: Ethical Consumption Contexts

Section Introduction

Chapter 5. Narratives of concern: beyond the 'official' discourse of ethical consumption in Hungary
Tamás Dombos

Chapter 6. Critical consumption in Palermo: imagined society, class and fractured locality
Giovanni Orlando

Chapter 7. On the challenges of signalling ethics without the stuff: tales of conspicuous green anti-consumption
Cindy Isenhour

Chapter 8. Ethical consumption as religious testimony: The Quaker case
Peter Collins

Chapter 9. Re-inventing food: the ethics of developing local food
Cristina Grasseni

Conclusion
James G. Carrier and Richard Wilk

About the contributors

Bibliography

Index