Daniel Jaffee, Ph.D.

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Assistant Professor of Sociology
Departments:
jaffee@wsu.edu
Phone: (360) 546-9279
Fax: (360) 546-9036
Located in Multimedia (VMMC) 102-U
Support Staff: Linda Campbell

My research examines the effects of economic globalization and neoliberal policies on social and environmental conditions for rural communities in the global South, particularly Latin America. I focus on fair trade as an alternative model of international economic exchange, examining the benefits and limitations of participation in fair trade markets for peasant commodity producers. I have conducted extensive field work in rural Mexico on certified organic and fair trade coffee production, and on indigenous community forestry management as a conservation/development strategy. Additional interests include social movements around sustainable agriculture and resource use in both North and South; the effect of global trade rules on environmental protection and regulation; and issues of access to and commodification of commons resources, particularly water.

Courses

Course ID Title Meeting Time Location Semester Syllabus
SOC 415 Globalization
SOC 418 Human Issues in International Development
SOC/ANTH 375 Aspects of Sustainable Development
SOC 391 Special Topics: Food and Society
SOC 102 Social Problems

Recent Publications

Book:

Daniel Jaffee.  2007.  Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability and Survival. University of California Press.

Articles and Book Chapters:

Daniel Jaffee.  2012.  Weak Coffee: Certification and Co-optation in the Fair Trade Movement.  Social Problems 59(1): 94-116.

Daniel Jaffee.  2011. "Fair Trade and Development: A Changing Paradigm"   87-104 in Meera Warrier, ed., The Politics of Fair Trade.  London:  Routledge.

Daniel Jaffee and Philip H. Howard.  2010.  "Corporate Cooptation of Organic and Fair Trade Standards."   Agriculture and Human Values  27(4): 387-399.

Daniel Jaffee.  2010.  "Fair Trade Standards, Corporate Participation, and Social Movement Responses in the United States."  Journal of Business Ethics  92: 267-285. 

Daniel Jaffee.  2008.  “Better, But Not Great”: The Social and Environmental Benefits and Limitations of Fair Trade for Indigenous Coffee Producers in Oaxaca, Mexico.  195-222 in Ruerd Ruben (ed.), The Impact of Fair Trade.  Wagenigen, Netherlands: Wagenigen Academic Publishers.

Daniel Jaffee, Jack R. Kloppenburg, and Mario B. Monroy.  2004.  "Bringing Home the 'Moral Charge': Fair Trade Within the North and Within the South." Rural Sociology 69(2): 169-196.

Recent Awards:

C. Wright Mills Book Award (for books published in 2007), Society for the Study of Social Problems.

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006