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Market, morality and (just) price: the case of recycling economy in Turkey

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posted on 2023-06-09, 16:27 authored by Demet DinlerDemet Dinler
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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Publication status

  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

Research in Economic Anthropology

ISSN

0190-1281

Publisher

Emerald

Volume

39

Page range

27-47

Department affiliated with

  • Anthropology Publications

Notes

The article is part of a special issue called "The Politics and Ethics of the Just Price: Ethnographies of Market Exchange".

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2019-01-14

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2019-06-20

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2019-01-11

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