Beyond Free Trade

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Beyond Free Trade

   1. Introduction: Beyond Free Trade

      • Kate Ervine, Gavin Fridell

      Pages 1-13

3. Historicizing Trade

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Trade History: From the Tree to the Futures Market, the Historical Process of Coffee Commodification, 1500–Today

      • Steven Topik

      Pages 17-35

   3. Food Regimes and Food Import Dependence: An Analysis of Jamaica’s Food Imports, 1950–2000

      • John M. Talbot

      Pages 37-56

   4. Historicising Trade Preferences and Development: The Case of the ACP-EU Canned Tuna Preference

      • Liam Campling

      Pages 57-75

4. Politicizing Trade: Shifting Alliances and New Trends

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. Regional Trading Agreements, the Geopolitics of China’s Rise, and Development in East Asia

      • Paul Bowles

      Pages 79-96

   3. The New Chinese Presence in the Caribbean: Towards a Global Understanding

      • Cecilia A. Green

      Pages 97-115

   4. The New Geoeconomics of Capital in Latin America: Alternative Trade and Development in an Era of Extractive Capitalism

      • Henry Veltmeyer

      Pages 117-132

   5. Canada, Extractivism, and Hemispheric Relations

      • Ricardo Grinspun, Jennifer Mills

      Pages 133-151

   6. The Commodities Boom in South America: A Case of Regressive Restructuring?

      • James M. Cypher

      Pages 153-171

   7. Trading on the Offshore: Territorialization and the Ocean Grab in the International Seabed

      • Anna Zalik

      Pages 173-190

5. Trading for Change?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191

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   2. Can Shopping Change the World? Fair Trade Social Premiums and Neoliberal Development in the Global Recession

      • Mark Moberg

      Pages 193-210

   3. On the Margins of the Rising South: ALBA and Petrocaribe in the Caribbean

      • Gavin Fridell

      Pages 211-228

   4. South American Post-neoliberalism and External Imbalances: The Case of Argentina, 2003–2014

      • Ruth Felder

      Pages 229-245

   5. Trading Carbon: Offsets, Human Rights, and Environmental Regulation

      • Kate Ervine

      Pages 247-266

   6. The Resilience of Forced Labour in Global Production and Trade

      • Nicola Phillips

      Pages 267-283

6. Conclusion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 285-285

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The world of trade is changing rapidly, from the 'rise of the South' to the growth of unconventional projects like fair trade and carbon trading. Beyond Free Trade advances alternative ways for understanding these new dynamics, based on historical, political, or sociological methods that go beyond the limitations of conventional trade economics.

• Trade and development
• world trade
• trade policy
• trade politics
• free trade
• fair trade
• global political economy
• world systems theory
• global value chains
• new extractivism
• new regionalism
• South-South trade
• trade and food
• trade and labour
• Fair Trade
• growth
• methods
• production

• Saint Mary’s University, Canada

  Kate Ervine, Gavin Fridell

Paul Bowles, University of Northern British Columbia, Canada. Liam Campling, Queen Mary University of London, UK. James M. Cypher, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Mexico. Ruth Felder, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Cecilia A. Green, Syracuse University, USA Ricardo Grinspun, York University, Canada. Jennifer Mills, York University, Canada. Mark Moberg, University of South Alabama, USA. Nicola Phillips, University of Sheffield, UK. John M. Talbot, University of the West Indies, Jamaica. Steven Topik, University of California Irvine, USA. Henry Veltmeyer, St. Mary's University, Canada. Anna Zalik, York University, Canada.

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