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Market, morality and (just) price: the case of recycling economy in Turkey
By drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted amongst waste-pickers and recycling traders in the waste paper, plastic and scrap metal sectors, and engaging with literature from economic anthropology and history, as well as archival sources, this paper documents changing perceptions of just price, morality and fairness in the Turkish recycling market. The paper suggests that multiple markets imply multiple prices, which are contingent and contested. When dealing with price mechanisms largely outside their control, actors tend to associate a fair price with the going market price, rather than factors such as state regulation. Approaches to morality and assessments of fairness become more ambiguous when prices are mediated by actors? own practices. These range from gift relations to paternalism, envy and deception.
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- Published
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- Accepted version
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Research in Economic AnthropologyISSN
0190-1281Publisher
EmeraldExternal DOI
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39Page range
27-47Department affiliated with
- Anthropology Publications
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The article is part of a special issue called "The Politics and Ethics of the Just Price: Ethnographies of Market Exchange".Full text available
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2019-01-14First Open Access (FOA) Date
2019-06-20First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2019-01-11Usage metrics
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