GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Commodity Fetishism, Fetishism, Papaya
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William blake songs of innocence : to see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm. To know about the lives of those who make the commodities you consume. Commodity fetishism: commodity fetishism is to mistake social relationships as the relationship between things, need to defetishise: to grasp the real life of a commodity. One strategy is by commodity or supply chain analysis: a commodity/supply chain traces the etire trajectory of a product from its conception(and design), through production, retailing and final consumption. Two benefits of commodity chain analysis: it instantly lets you see that commodities are always more than they are. It is a technique of defetishization: shows the inseparable role of geography within commodity production. Geographers interested in commodity/supply chains since karl andree. Such chains are increasingly the key corporate strategy in facilitating. Globalization is the spatial pattern of international commodity chains.
