“Naylor discusses the racialized and historical backdrop of coffee production and rebel autonomy in the highlands, underscores the divergence of movements for fairer trade and the so-called alternative certified market, traces the network of such movements from the highlands and into the United States, and evaluates existing food sovereignty and diverse economic exchanges. Putting decolonial thinking in conversation with diverse economies theory, Fair Trade Rebels evaluates fair trade not by the measure of its success or failure but through a unique, place-based approach that expands our understanding of the relationship between fair trade, autonomy, and economic development.”

University of Minnesota Press, 240 pages 

Note: Lindsay Naylor is an assistant professor, Dept. of Geography & Spatial Sciences, Univ. of Delaware. As a PhD student at UO, she wrote about her research for the 2012 CSWS Annual Review.