Highlights Distance and durability are at the core of the economic, cultural and transport geographies of capitalist food provisioning. Circulation time of commodities is linked to the preservation of their overall quality and material integrity. Circulation time of commodities is theoretically and empirically tied to local and regional transport geography. Insight from sub-disciplines dealing with materiality and disease can enrich established transport geography approaches.
Abstract The major resurgence of transport geography over the last two decades has provided us with important insights and knowledge on the spatial aspects of transportation under global capitalism. In spite of its substantial progress, however, the sub-disciple has tended to study the movement of goods in abstraction from their physical properties and to conceptualize commodities as fixed and unchanging. Although this assumption is a reasonable one for a great many commodities, it is less so for more perishable goods, especially food. In an attempt to develop this insight further, this article argues that transport geography needs to pay more attention to the relationship between space–time processes and the physical properties of goods in transit. I investigate this relationship through a study of the development and social impacts of the milk trade in Britain c.1845–1914.
Food quality and the circulation time of commodities: lessons from the British milk trade 1845–1914
Journal of Transport Geography ; 38 ; 114-121
2014-01-01
8 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Food quality and the circulation time of commodities: lessons from the British milk trade 1845–1914
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