Full CV – Elizabeth A. Bennett (October 2024)
Forthcoming
2025. “Labor Justice and Global Economic Governance: How is labor included in and impacted by the International Labour Organization and Corporate Social Responsibility?” in Justice in Global Economic Governance: Reforming the World Economy to Promote Fair Globalization, Eds. Clara Brandi, Eszter Kollar, and Axel Berger, Edinburgh University Press.
2025. “Living Wages,” essay included in Essential Concepts for Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals: An A-Z Guide, Eds. Frank Biermann, Thomas Hickmann, Yi hyun Kang, Carole-Anne Sénit and Yixian Sun, New York: Routledge.
2025. “Rainbow Washing,” essay included in Essential Concepts for Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals: An A-Z Guide, Eds. Frank Biermann, Thomas Hickmann, Yi hyun Kang, Carole-Anne Sénit and Yixian Sun, New York: Routledge.
Published (reverse chronological):
2024. “How can sustainable business models distribute value more equitably in global value chains? Introducing “value chain profit sharing” as an emerging alternative to fair trade, direct trade, or solidarity trade” Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility. (open access)
2024. Voluntary sustainability standards, employee ownership, and the Sustainable Development Goals: Can VSS leverage EO to accelerate progress toward the SDGs? International Review of Applied Economics, special issue on employee ownership.
2024. “Which fair trade principles travel to distant sectors? An analysis of social and sustainability entrepreneurs and enterprises in the legal cannabis (marijuana) sector” Journal of Fair Trade 5(1). (open access)
2024. “Global Governance through Voluntary Sustainability Standards: Developments, Trends and Challenges,” Global Policy with Axel Marx, Charline Depoorter, Santiago Fernandez de Cordoba, Rupal Verma, Graeme Auld, Janne Bemelmans, Elizabeth A. Bennett, Eva Boonaert, Clara Brandi, Thomas Dietz, Mercedes Fernandez Araoz, Eve Fouilleux, Janina Grabs, Lars H. Gulbrandsen, James Harrison, Robert Heilmayr, Ariel Hernandez, Bernard Hoekman, Siti Ruby Lambert, Eric Lambin, Li Li, Miet Maertens, Paulo Mortara Batistic, Etsuyo Michida, Junji Nakagawa, Archna Negi, Jorge A. Pérez-Pineda, Stefano Ponte, Ximena Rueda, Philip Schleifer, Vera Thorstensen, and Hamish van der Ven. (open access)
2024. “Producer and Supplier Inclusion: Lessons Learned from Voluntary Standards Setting” – essay for the UNFSS 6th Flagship Report “VSS and Sustainability Due Diligence: Lessons Learned and Implications for Developing Countries.” Geneva: United Nations. (open access – coming soon)
2023. “Fair Trade Consumers and Knowledge about Fair Trade,” in Research Handbook on Ethical Consumption: Contemporary Research in Responsible and Sustainable Consumer Behaviour, Eds. Marylyn Carrigan, Victoria Wells, and Karolos Papadas, London: Edward Elgar.
2022. “The Efficacy of Voluntary Standards, Sustainability Certifications, and Ethical Labels,” in the Research Handbook on Global Governance, Business and Human Rights, Eds. Axel Marx, Geert Van Calster, and Jan Wouters, pp. 176-203. London: Edward Elgar.
2022. “Feeling Good or Doing Good? Enabling Economic Exploitation through Ambiguous Bliss, Willful Ignorance, and Polarized Thinking,” in Playing with Reality: Denying, Manipulating, Converting, and Enhancing What Is There, Ed. Sidney R. Homan, pp. 24-33. New York: Routledge.
2021. “Voluntary Sustainability Certifications: What is the Point?” The Global Justice and Human Rights Journal Review 1(4): 18-23. A commentary on J. Grabs (2020) Selling Sustainability Short? The Private Governance of Labor and the Environment in the Coffee Sector, Cambridge University Press.
2021. “Rethinking the necessary trade-offs of distributing value to suppliers: An analysis of the profit-sharing model,” Carr Center Discussion Paper Series, Cambridge, MA: Harvard Kennedy School, co-authored with Janina Grabs.
2021. “Do Sustainability Certifications Contribute to Social Justice and Environmental Protection?” Governance, 34(3): 949-952. Review of J. Grabs (2020) Selling Sustainability Short? The Private Governance of Labor and the Environment in the Coffee Sector, Cambridge University Press.
2021. “Consumer Activism, Sustainable Supply Chains, and the Cannabis Market,” in The Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Cannabis Research, Eds. Dominic Corva and Joshua Meisel, pp. 192-200. London: Routledge.
2021. “Profit Sharing: Towards a Just and Stable Future for Coffee Growers,” 25 Magazine, volume 25, issue 14, pp. 24-29, published by the Specialty Coffee Association, co-authored with Janina Grabs.
2020. “The Global Fair Trade Movement: For Whom, By Whom, How, and What Next,” in The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology, Eds. Michael Bell, Michael Carolan, Julie Keller, and Katharine Legun, pp. 459-477. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2019. “Passing on Pot: When Environmental Organizations Disengage from Political Consumerism in Highly Stigmatized Sectors,” Environmental Politics (online, p.1-28).
2018. “Voluntary Sustainability Standards: A Squandered Opportunity to Improve Workers’ Wages,” Sustainable Development 26(1): 65-82.
2018. “Prohibition, Legalization, and Political Consumerism: Insights from the US and Canadian Cannabis Markets,” in The Oxford Handbook of Political Consumerism, Eds. Magnus Boström, Michele Micheletti, and Peter Oosterveer, pp. 741-772. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2018. “Extending Ethical Consumerism Theory to Semi-Legal Sectors: Insights from Recreational Cannabis,” Agriculture and Human Values,35(2), 295-317.
2018 – Tenure, International Affairs, Lewis & Clark College
2017. “Who Governs Socially-Oriented Voluntary Sustainability Standards? Not the Producers of Certified Products,” World Development 91: 53-69.
2017. “Fair Cannabis? The Need for Labor Protection in America’s Fastest Growing Agricultural Sector,” For a Better World, magazine published by Fair World Project, 14(April): 12-13.
2017. “Empowering Producers Means Sharing Power with Producers!” The Fairtrade Blog (January 3), published by Fairtrade America.
2016. “Governance, Legitimacy, and Stakeholder Balance: Lessons from Fairtrade International,” Social Enterprise Journal 12(3): 322-346.
2016. “Book review: ‘Constructing Private Governance: The Rise and Evolution of Forest, Coffee, and Fisheries Certification’” by Graeme Auld, Yale University Press, 2014, Perspectives on Politics 14(2): 591-592.
2015. The Handbook of Research on Fair Trade, London: Edward Elgar. (co-edited with Laura T. Raynolds)
2015. “Introduction to Research on Fair Trade,” in The Handbook of Fair Trade Research, Eds. Laura T. Raynolds and Elizabeth A. Bennett, pp. 3-23. London: Edward Elgar Publishing. (Co-authored with Laura T. Raynolds)
2015. “Fairtrade International Governance,” in The Handbook of Fair Trade Research, Eds. Laura T. Raynolds and Elizabeth A. Bennett, pp. 80-101. London: Edward Elgar.
2015. “Civic Innovation and Creative Campaigns: How Fresh Ideas Are Compromising Local Democracy,” Metropolitics (October 27), co-authored with Stephanie Savell, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Alissa Cordner, and Peter T. Klein.
2015. “Book Review: ‘Alternative Trade: Legacies for the Future’” by Gavin Fridell, Fernwood Publishing, 2013, Journal of World Systems Research 21(1): 224-227.
2014 – PhD, Political Science, Brown University
2014. The Civic Imagination: Making a Difference in American Political Life, Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers. (equally co-researched and collaboratively co-authored with Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Alissa Cordner, Peter Taylor Klein, and Stephanie Savell)
2013. “Disavowing Politics: Civic Engagement in an Era of Political Skepticism,” American Journal of Sociology 119(2): 518-548. (First author, with Alissa Cordner, Peter Taylor Klein, Stephanie Savell, and Gianpaolo Baiocchi)
2012. “Verifying Social Enterprises: Applying Lessons from the Fair Trade Movement,” in Patterns of Social Entrepreneurship Research, Eds. Jill Kickul and Sophie Bacq, pp. 243-262. London: Edward Elgar. (First author, with Don Gregory, Robert Leaver, and Kelly Ramirez)
2012. “Global Social Movements in Global Governance,” Globalizations 9(6): 799-813.
2012. “Film Review: Why ‘The Dark Side of Chocolate’ is a Useful but Insufficient Resource on the Ethics of Cocoa,” (Bastard Film 2010), Critical Investigations Into Humanitarianism in Africa, University of California- Irvine.
2012. “A Short History of Fairtrade Certification Governance,” in The Processes and Practices of Fair Trade: Trust, Ethics and Governance, Eds. Janet Dine and Brigitte Granville, pp. 43-78. London: Routledge.
2012. “Standards Setting INGOs in the 21st Century,” ISEAL Newsletter, December 20, International Social and Environmental Accreditation and Labeling Alliance (ISEAL).
2010. “Overstating Poppy: The U.S. Counter Narcotics, Counter Terrorism, and Development Policy Nexus in Afghanistan,” Journal of International Policy Solutions (12): 16-41.