Elizabeth Bennett

PhD Elizabeth A. Bennett's Details

Affiliation

Lewis & Clark College

Location

United States

Email

elizabethbennett@lclark.edu

Website

http://www.elizabethannebennett.com/

Expertise Keywords

sustainability standards, living wages, certification, multistakeholder initiatives

Publications:

Authors Year Title Journal or Book Other Language Type Link
Elizabeth Bennett 2021 Do sustainability certifications contribute to social justice and environmental protection? (Review of Janina Grabs (2020) Selling Sustainability Short, Cambridge University Press) Governance 34 (3) pp. 949-952 English Academic Journal Link
Elizabeth Bennett 2021 Consumer Activism, Sustainable Supply Chains, and the Cannabis Market The Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Cannabis Research pp. 192-200 English Book Chapter Link
Elizabeth Bennett Grabs, Janina 2021 Profit Sharing: Towards a Just and Stable Future for Coffee Growers 25 Magazine 25 (14) pp. 24-29 English Other Link
Elizabeth Bennett 2021 Voluntary Sustainability Certifications: What is the Point? The Global Justice and Human Rights Journal Review 1 (4) pp. 18-23 English Academic Journal Link
Elizabeth Bennett Grabs, Janina 2021 Rethinking the “necessary” trade-offs of distributing value to suppliers: An analysis of the profit-sharing model Harvard Kennedy School Working Paper Series English Other Link
Elizabeth Bennett 2020 [EXCELLENT INTRO/UPDATE ON FAIR TRADE]: The Global Fair Trade Movement: For Whom, By Whom, How, and What Next The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology pp. 459-477 English Book Chapter Link
Elizabeth Bennett 2019 Passing on pot: when environmental organizations disengage from political consumerism in highly stigmatized sectors Environmental Politics English Academic Journal Link
Elizabeth Bennett 2013 Book review: Gavin Fridell’s “Alternative Trade: Legacies for the Future” (2013) Journal of World-Systems Research 21 (1) pp. 224-227 English Other
Elizabeth Bennett 2016 Book review: Graeme Auld’s “Constructing Private Governance” (2014) Perspectives on Politics 14 (2) pp. 591-592 English Other
Elizabeth Bennett 2016 Governance, legitimacy, and stakeholder balance: lessons from Fairtrade International Social Enterprise Journal English Report Link
Elizabeth Bennett 2017 Voluntary Sustainability Standards: A Squandered Opportunity to Improve Workers’ Wages Sustainable Development 26 (1) pp. 65-82 English Academic Journal
Elizabeth Bennett 2017 Who Governs Socially-Oriented Voluntary Sustainability Standards? Not the Producers of Certified Products World Development 91 pp. 53-69 English Academic Journal
Elizabeth Bennett 2017 Extending ethical consumerism theory to semi-legal sectors: insights from recreational cannabis Agriculture and Human Values 35 (2) pp. 295–317 English Academic Journal
Elizabeth Bennett 2018 Prohibition, Legalization, and Political Consumerism: Insights from the US and Canadian Cannabis Markets The Oxford Handbook of Political Consumerism

Edited by Magnus Boström, Michele Micheletti,

English Book Chapter
Elizabeth Bennett 2017 Fair Cannabis? The Need for Labor Protection in America’s Fastest-Growing Agricultural Sector For A Better World English Report
Laura Raynolds Elizabeth Bennett 2015 Introduction to Research on Fair Trade The Handbook of Research on Fair Trade

Eds. Laura T. Raynolds and Elizabeth A. Bennett

English Book Chapter Link
Elizabeth Bennett 2015 Fairtrade International Governance The Handbook of Research on Fair Trade pp. 80-101

Eds. Laura T. Raynolds and Elizabeth A. Bennett

English Book Chapter Link
Elizabeth Bennett 2015 1-page summary: History of Producers in Fairtrade International Governance Excerpt from The Handbook of Research on Fair Trade (Raynolds & Bennett) English Report Link
Elizabeth Bennett 2012 A Short History of Fairtrade Certification Governance The Processes and Practices of Fair Trade: Trust, Ethics and Governance

Eds. Janet Dine and Brigitte Granville. London:

English Book Chapter Link
Elizabeth Bennett 2012 Verifying Social Enterprises: Applying Lessons from the Fair Trade Movement Patterns of Social Entrepreneurship Research

Eds. Jill Kickul and Sophie Bacq. London: Edwar

English Book Chapter Link
Laura Raynolds Elizabeth Bennett 2015 Introduction to Research on Fair Trade Handbook of Research on Fair Trade pp. 3-23

L. Raynolds & E. Bennett (eds.) Northampton MA:

English Book Chapter Link

Primary Expertise - Fair Trade Research

Discipline

political economy, political sociology

Research Interest

Elizabeth A. Bennett is Associate Professor of International Affairs at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and a Research Associate at the Center for Fair and Alternative Trade at Colorado State University. Her research centers on issues of inequality in sustainable development, global governance, social enterprise, ethical certifications and civic engagement. Her current agenda examines the factors that facilitate or impede North‰ÛÒSouth power sharing in voluntary standards-setting organizations and focuses on an in-depth historical study of Fairtrade International. Elizabeth is co-author of The Civic Imagination: Making a Difference in American Political Life, a political ethnography of civic engagement in America (2014). She has also written chapters for edited volumes on social enterprise and fair trade and published in the peer reviewed journals The American Journal of Sociology, Globalizations and The Journal for International Policy Studies. Elizabeth holds a MALD in political economy and international development at The Fletcher School at Tufts University (2008) and an AM and PhD in Political Science from Brown University (2014).