Elizabeth Bennett
PhD Elizabeth A. Bennett's Details
Affiliation
Lewis & Clark College
Location
United States
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 |
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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 | ||
2021 | Consumer Activism, Sustainable Supply Chains, and the Cannabis Market | The Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Cannabis Research pp. 192-200 | English | Book Chapter | Link | ||
2021 | Profit Sharing: Towards a Just and Stable Future for Coffee Growers | 25 Magazine 25 (14) pp. 24-29 | English | Other | Link | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
2019 | Passing on pot: when environmental organizations disengage from political consumerism in highly stigmatized sectors | Environmental Politics | English | Academic Journal | Link | ||
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 | |||
2016 | Book review: Graeme Auld’s “Constructing Private Governance” (2014) | Perspectives on Politics 14 (2) pp. 591-592 | English | Other | |||
2016 | Governance, legitimacy, and stakeholder balance: lessons from Fairtrade International | Social Enterprise Journal | English | Report | Link | ||
2017 | Voluntary Sustainability Standards: A Squandered Opportunity to Improve Workers’ Wages | Sustainable Development 26 (1) pp. 65-82 | English | Academic Journal | |||
2017 | Who Governs Socially-Oriented Voluntary Sustainability Standards? Not the Producers of Certified Products | World Development 91 pp. 53-69 | English | Academic Journal | |||
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 | |||
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 | ||
2017 | Fair Cannabis? The Need for Labor Protection in America’s Fastest-Growing Agricultural Sector | For A Better World | English | Report | |||
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 | |
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 | |
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 | ||
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 | |
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 | |
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 NorthÛÒSouth 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).