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
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