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The political economy of alternative trade: Social and environmental certification in the South African wine industry (2009)
Journal Article
McEwan, C., & Bek, D. (2009). The political economy of alternative trade: Social and environmental certification in the South African wine industry. Journal of Rural Studies, 25(3), 255-266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2009.03.001

Despite recent critical analyses of the nature and impacts of social and environmental certification, the increasingly complex landscape of voluntary, industry and third-party codes and certification processes that have emerged in specific sectors is... Read More about The political economy of alternative trade: Social and environmental certification in the South African wine industry.

Placing ethical trade in context: WIETA and the South African wine industry (2009)
Journal Article
McEwan, C., & Bek, D. (2009). Placing ethical trade in context: WIETA and the South African wine industry. Third World Quarterly, 30(4), 723-742. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436590902867144

How ethical trade develops in specific ways in particular national-institutional and historical contexts remains largely unexamined. This paper analyses approaches to ethical trade in the South African wine industry through a case study of the Wine a... Read More about Placing ethical trade in context: WIETA and the South African wine industry.

Ethical trading and socioeconomic transformation: critical reflections on the South African wine industry (2007)
Journal Article
Bek, D., McEwan, C., & Bek, K. (2007). Ethical trading and socioeconomic transformation: critical reflections on the South African wine industry. Environment and Planning A, 39(2), 301-319. https://doi.org/10.1068/a3831

Newly emerging ethical trade practices in the South African wine industry are examined as a way of engaging with debates about the ability of alternative trade approaches to facilitate meaningful opportunities for socioeconomic development in the glo... Read More about Ethical trading and socioeconomic transformation: critical reflections on the South African wine industry.

(Re)Politicizing empowerment: Lessons from the South African wine industry (2006)
Journal Article
McEwan, C., & Bek, D. (2006). (Re)Politicizing empowerment: Lessons from the South African wine industry. Geoforum, 37(6), 1021-1034. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2006.06.004

Despite being a poorly defined and vague concept, empowerment is currently of political and theoretical significance and nowhere more so than in South Africa, where it seen as central to post-apartheid transformation. This paper explores the ways in... Read More about (Re)Politicizing empowerment: Lessons from the South African wine industry.