NTanio_UCI EcoGovLab Skill Mapping (pt2)
ntanioI bring visual and graphic expertise, good organization skills, focus on pedagogical issues;
Tanio_N - expertise needed(part1)
ntanioWe need social media skills, organizational skills, community organizing skills, expertise on environmental research; teaching;
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The gift of the money caused discord in the community - rather than buying the good tea for a better price, so that it feels earned, it is a bigger power dynamic to gift the money
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The publication of standards, inspections, certification, decertification, branding - connection to policy for organic certification
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I don’t think they particularly see themselves as helpful to the tea growers - they are more about codifying/enacting a “final vocabulary” around their view of environmental sustainability
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In the context of a supply chain where the Global North [sic] corp/buyer is at the top, they are defining and enacting “the ethical” and environmental “responsibility” in their standards and their inspections and their certifications and labels and branding, without any real awareness of how these things are already happening, for different reasons, in the context of somewhere like Tanzania where the tea is actually being grown.
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Standards development organizations, which include heavy influence from corporations in the Global North [sic], are “codify[ing] values of sustainability that are to govern practices” p825
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Not much on the context of CSR or the history of these SDOs and why they exist.
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Alexi MartinAdriana Petryna is a professor of antropology. She is interested in cultrual and polticial aspects of science and medicine in Eastern Eurpoe. She teaches at Penn State.
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Alexi MartinThe main findings of this article include the discrepancy of actual health issues and its surfacing in the government. The article explores post-Soviet Union Ukraine and discovers the backbone of its economy consists of disability healthcare for those affected by radiation. The struggle to survive without an illness on a bare economy where government funds help those who may be damamged by radiation and ignore the rest of the population.