Department of Sociology

Faculty

Daniel Jaffee

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison, 2006

 

Areas of Research Interest:

Environmental Sociology, Globalization; Development; Food and Agriculture; Rural Sociology; Political Economy; Social Movements

Current Research Interests:

My research examines the effects of economic globalization and neoliberal policies on social and environmental conditions for rural communities in the global South, particularly Latin America. I focus on fair trade as an alternative model of international economic exchange, examining the benefits and limitations of participation in fair trade markets for peasant commodity producers. I have conducted extensive field work in rural Mexico on certified organic and fair trade coffee production, and on indigenous community forestry management as a conservation/development strategy. Additional interests include social movements around sustainable agriculture and resource use in both North and South; the effect of global trade rules on environmental protection and regulation; and issues of access to and privatization of commons resources, particularly water.

Selected Publications:

Daniel Jaffee and Philip H. Howard.   "Corporate Cooptation of Organic and Fair Trade Standards."   Forthcoming in Agriculture and Human Values.   

Daniel Jaffee.  "Fair Trade and Development: How Has the Paradigm Changed?"   Forthcoming in Meera Warrier, ed., The Politics of Fair Trade.  London:  Routledge. 

Daniel Jaffee.  "Fair Trade Standards, Corporate Participation, and Social Movement Responses in the United States."  Forthcoming in Journal of Business Ethics

Daniel Jaffee.  2008.  “Better, But Not Great”: The Social and Environmental Benefits and Limitations of Fair Trade for Indigenous Coffee Producers in Oaxaca, Mexico.  195-222 in Ruerd Ruben (ed.), The Impact of Fair Trade.  Wagenigen, Netherlands: Wagenigen Academic Publishers.

Daniel Jaffee. 2007. Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability and Survival. University of California Press.

Daniel Jaffee, Jack R. Kloppenburg, and Mario B. Monroy. 2004. "Bringing Home the 'Moral Charge': Fair Trade Within the North and Within the South." (pdf) Rural Sociology 69(2): 169-196.

Recent Awards:

C. Wright Mills Award (for books published in 2007), Society for the Study of Social Problems.

Courses:

Vancouver Campus:
   Sociology 332 - Society and Environment
   Sociology 375 - Aspects of Sustainable Development
   Sociology 391 - Special Topics: Food and Society
   Sociology 415 - Globalization
   Sociology 418 - Human Issues in International Development

Pullman Campus:

   Sociology 536 - Special Topics in Environmental Sociology:
    Globalization and Inequality

 

 

 

Daniel Jaffee

jaffee@wsu.edu
(360) 546-9279
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