Lyon, Sarah and Mark Moberg, eds. 2010. Fair Trade and Social Justice: Global Ethnographies

Social Justice in a Global Context: Education Queensland’s 2010 Strategy

Introduction The concerns of this paper are encapsulated in two events which took place in Australia in 2000: the protests in Melbourne at the World Economic Forum and the Olympic Games opening extravaganza. The World Economic Forum exemplified the tensions between the efficiency imperatives of economic globalisation and political imperatives for equity and social cohesion. The egalitarian repr...

Fare ’ s fair ? Concessionary travel policy and social justice

Journal of Poverty and Social Justice • vol x • no x • xx–xx • © Policy Press 2015 • #JPSJ Print ISSN 1759 8273 • Online ISSN 1759 8281 • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/175982715X14418059634901 This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits adaptation, alteration, reproduction and distribution w...

Handbook of Research Methods on Trust by Fergus Lyon, Guido Mollering and Mark N. K. Saunders (eds.)

The book provides an authoritative in-depth examination of both qualitative and quantitative methods for the study of trust in the field of social sciences. As such, it is conceived as an extensive overview of the various directions in which the multi-faceted phenomenon of trust can be explored, with an eye to the journeys of trust researchers across academia searching for a better understandin...

Global Climate Change, Fair Trade, and Coffee Price Volatility

Fair Trade coffee sales have grown exponentially over the past fifteen years amidst a volatile and shaky coffee commodity market. This paper incorporates the prior research that global climate change will lead to more climate shocks with research on the coffee market’s volatility and farmer welfare. In accordance with prior research on commodity volatility, I develop an OLS estimator of the vol...

Resource advantage theory and fair trade social enterprises