Heating Up, Cooling Down The Moralisation of Markets through Devices and Their Unintended Consequences
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23-06-2025
Nadine Arnold
Birthe Soppe
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0116-9399
Abstract
Social movements play a critical role in politicising food systems, often contesting and moralising markets to advance their social change agenda. To induce moralisation processes, social movements frequently deploy market devices. Examining the case of the creation and development of the Swiss fair trade flower market over time (1990–2005), we investigate how several market devices are being used in moralising a market, including the intended and unintended consequences of this process. Our findings reveal how the sequencing of devices—the gradual build-up of various devices upon one another—enabled the market-pioneering movement to first ‘heat up’ moral concerns and raise awareness, and later ‘cool down’ these concerns by specifying accountabilities and obligations to scale the market. However, the sequencing of devices resulted in a moralised market concentrated on a powerful device—a certification standard for plantations—which in turn triggered tensions within the fair trade movement. The market pioneers became marginalised, and the initial fair trade idea—supporting smallholders—became fundamentally renegotiated at international level. These findings advance our understanding of the mainstreaming process of fair trade, explain how fair trade has come to encompass its first non-food product (i.e., flowers) and planation production, and contribute to research on movement-induced markets by highlighting the unintended consequences and intra-movement conflicts of building moralised markets through devising.
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“Heating Up, Cooling Down: The Moralisation of Markets through Devices and Their Unintended Consequences” (2025) The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, 31(1), pp. 127–146. doi:10.48416/g8z56s69.
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Social movements, fair trade, moralized markets, flower, plantation, market devices
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———. 2022. “Can certification increase trade fairness and worker empowerment? Lessons from Fairtrade International-certified plantations in Ecuador”. International Sociology 37 (6): 716–739.
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Arnold, Nadine, and Birthe Soppe. 2017. “From contention to mainstream: Valuing and institutionalizing moral products.” New Themes in Institutional Analysis, edited by Georg Krücken, Renate E. Meyer, and Peter Walgenbach, 104-134. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Balsiger, Philip. 2021. “The Dynamics of ‘Moralized Markets’: A Field Perspective.” Socio-Economic Review 19 (1): 59–82. https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwz051.
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Fürst, Henrik. 2018. “Aspiring Writers and Appraisal Devices under Market Uncertainty.” Acta Sociologica 61 (4): 389–401. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001699317749285.
Geiger, Susi, and Nicole Gross. 2018. “Market Failures and Market Framings: Can a Market Be Transformed from the Inside?” Organization Studies 39 (10): 1357–76. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840617717098.
Geiger, Susi, Debbie Harrison, Hans Kjellberg, and Alexandre Mallard. 2014. Concerned Markets: Economic Ordering for Multiple Values. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Gilding, Michael, & Glezos, Lee. (2021). “Market formation, social movements and judgement devices: Creating the organic food market in Australia.” Journal of Sociology 57 (2): 325–342.
Goodman, Michael K. (2004). “Reading fair trade: political ecological imaginary and the moral economy of fair trade foods.” Political Geography 23 (7), 891–915.
Goodman, Michael K. (2010): “The mirror of consumption: Celebritization, developmental consumption and the shifting cultural politics of fair trade.” Geoforum 41: 104–116.
Goodman, David, Melanie E. Dupuis, and Michael K. Goodman. 2012. Alternative Food Networks: Knowledge, Practice, and Politics. Routledge.
Hawkins, Gay. 2011. “Packaging Water: Plastic Bottles as Market and Public Devices.” Economy and Society 40 (4): 534–52. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2011.602295.
Karpik, Lucien. 2010. Valuing the Unique: The Economics of Singularities. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
King, Brayden G., and Nicholas A. Pearce. 2010. “The Contentiousness of Markets: Politics, Social Movements, and Institutional Change in Markets.” Annual Review of Sociology 36 (1): 249–67. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.soc.012809.102606.
Langley, Ann. 1999. “Strategies for Theorizing from Process Data.” Academy of Management Review 24 (4): 691–710. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.1999.2553248.
Lawrence, Christopher J, and Stephanie Lee Mudge. 2019. “Movement to Market, Currency to Property: The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin as an Anti-State Movement, 2009–2014.” Socio-Economic Review 17 (1): 109–34. https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwz023.
Lee, Brandon H, Shon R Hiatt, and Michael Lounsbury. 2017. “Market Mediators and the Trade-offs of Legitimacy-Seeking Behaviors in a Nascent Category.” Organization Science 28 (3) :447-470.
Marres, N. 2016. Material Participation: Technology, the Environment and Everyday Publics. Springer.
Motta, Renata. (2021). “Social movements as agents of change: Fighting intersectional food inequalities, building food as webs of life.” The Sociological Review 69 (3): 603–625.
McFall, Liz. 2009. “Devices and Desires: How Useful Is the ‘New’ New Economic Sociology for Understanding Market Attachment?” Sociology Compass 3 (2): 267–82. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9020.2009.00195.x.
McFall, Liz. 2014. Devising Consumption: Cultural Economies of Insurance, Credit and Spending. London: Routledge.
Miller, Laura J. 2017. Building Nature’s Market. The Business and Politics of Natural Foods. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Neyland, Daniel, Véra Ehrenstein, and Sveta Milyaeva. 2019. “On the Difficulties of Addressing Collective Concerns through Markets: From Market Devices to Accountability Devices.” Economy and Society 48 (2): 243–67. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2019.1576432.
Niederle, Paulo, Allison Loconto, Sylvaine Lemeilleur, and Claire Dorville. 2020. “Social Movements and Institutional Change in Organic Food Markets: Evidence from Participatory Guarantee Systems in Brazil and France.” Journal of Rural Studies 78: 282–91.
Pfotenhauer, Sebastian, Brice Laurent, Kyriaki Papageorgiou, and Jack Stilgoe. 2022. “The politics of scaling.” Social Studies of Science 52 (1): 3–34. https://doi.org/10.1177/03063127211048945.
Rao, Hayagreeva. 2009. Rao, H: Market Rebels: How Activists Make or Break Radical Innovations. Princeton: University Press Group.
Raynolds, Laura T. 2000. “Re-Embedding Global Agriculture: The International Organic and Fair Trade Movements.” Agriculture and Human Values 17 (3): 297–309. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007608805843.
———. 2009. “Mainstreaming Fair Trade Coffee: From Partnership to Traceability.” World Development 37 (6): 1083–93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.10.001.
———. 2017. “Fairtrade Labour Certification: The Contested Incorporation of Plantations and Workers.” Third World Quarterly 38 (7): 1473–92.
———. 2022. “Can certification increase trade fairness and worker empowerment? Lessons from Fairtrade International-certified plantations in Ecuador”. International Sociology 37 (6): 716–739.
Raynolds, Laura T., & Bennett, Elizabeth Ann. (2015). Handbook of Research on Fair Trade. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Raynolds, Laura T., and Claudia Rosty. 2021. “Fair Trade USA Coffee Plantation Certification: Ramifications for Workers in Nicaragua.” Development Policy Review 39 (S1): 102–21. https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12473.
Reinecke, Juliane, Stephan Manning, and Oliver von Hagen. 2012. “The Emergence of a Standards Market: Multiplicity of Sustainability Standards in the Global Coffee Industry.” Organization Studies 33 (5–6): 791–814. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840612443629.
Scott, W. Richard. 2003. “Institutional Carriers: Reviewing Modes of Transporting Ideas over Time and Space and Considering Their Consequences.” Industrial and Corporate Change 12 (4): 879–94. https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/12.4.879.
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Steinberg, Jonathan. 1996. Why Switzerland? 2nd ed. Cambridge England; New York: Cambridge University Press.
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Stinchcombe, Arthur L. 2001. When Formality Works : Authority and Abstraction in Law and Organizations. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Suckert, Lisa. 2018. “Unravelling Ambivalence: A Field-Theoretical Approach to Moralised Markets.” Current Sociology 66 (5): 682–703.
Tallontire, Anne, & Nelson, Valerie. (2013). “Fair trade narratives and political dynamics.” Social Enterprise Journal 9 (1): 28–52.
Tavory, Iddo, and Stefan Timmermans. 2014. Abductive Analysis: Theorizing Qualitative Research. University of Chicago Press.
Velthuis, Olav. 2020. “Market Devices.” In Pragmatic Inquiry. Critical Concepts for Social Sciences, edited by John R. Bowen, Nicolas Dodier, Jan Willem Duyvendak, and Anita Hardon, 80–93. London and New York: Routledge.
Ventresca, Marc J., and John W. Mohr. 2002. “Archival Research Methods.” In Blackwell Companion to Organizations, edited by Joel A. C Baum, 805–28. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing.
Weber, Klaus, Kathryn L. Heinze, and Michaela DeSoucey. 2008. “Forage for Thought: Mobilizing Codes in the Movement for Grass-Fed Meat and Dairy Products.” Administrative Science Quarterly 53 (3): 529–67.
Weber, Hanna, Poeggel, Karoline, Eakin, Hallie, Fischer, Daniel, Lang, Daniel J., Wehrden, Henrik Von, & Wiek, Arnim. 2020. “What are the ingredients for food systems change towards sustainability?—Insights from the literature.” Environmental Research Letters 15(11): 113001.
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“Heating Up, Cooling Down: The Moralisation of Markets through Devices and Their Unintended Consequences” (2025) The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, 31(1), pp. 127–146. doi:10.48416/g8z56s69.
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