Racialized downgrading and upgrading: Dis/articulation and the Fijian kava commodity chain
研究了斐济卡瓦商品链中，国家官员和主导企业如何利用殖民修辞，在国内贬低卡瓦消费、在国外提升其价值，揭示了全球商品链中的种族化排斥策略。
Dis/articulation offers critical insight into exclusionary practices embedded in global commodity chains. In Fiji, powerful actors engage in dis/articulation strategies to limit access to kava consumption domestically while ensuring its availability to Western audiences. Repurposing colonial rhetoric associated with Fijian kava consumption, state officials and lead firms portray kava as over-consumed, unhealthy and harmful in relation to Indigenous Fijians who are its primary producers, harvesters and domestic consumer base. These same actors (e.g. state officials and lead firms) promote kava to Western markets, publicizing it as healthful and beneficial to primarily white consumers. Their marketing and promotional efforts perpetuate colonial tropes and racialized discourses in an effort to simultaneously decrease value domestically (via downgrading) and increase value abroad (via upgrading). This study advances our understanding of the lesser-known historical and relational dimensions of race in global commodity chains.