{"id":47062,"date":"2012-06-28T11:30:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T16:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=47062"},"modified":"2015-09-19T22:58:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T03:58:36","slug":"who-picks-the-cacoa-for-your-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/06\/28\/who-picks-the-cacoa-for-your-chocolate\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Picks the Cacao for Your Chocolate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When asked to contribute to an exhibition about chocolate, photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesmollison.com\/project.php?project_id=1\" target=\"_blank\">James Mollison<\/a> decided to &#8220;explore the disparity between the producer and consumer.&#8221; \u00a0Chocolate is always a luxury, of course (and is often <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/11\/15\/guest-post-chocolate-commodity-fetishism-and-high-class-luxury\/\">deliberately marketed this way<\/a>), and the product, at its finest, can be exceptionally delicious and exceptionally expensive.<\/p>\n<p>Mollison went to C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, the country responsible for producing the largest proportion of cacao,\u00a0to bring the contrast between the product and its producers to life. \u00a0The men he photographed, he reports, earned less than $1 a day.<\/p>\n<p>You can see them at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesmollison.com\/biography.php\" target=\"_blank\">his website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When asked to contribute to an exhibition about chocolate, photographer James Mollison decided to &#8220;explore the disparity between the producer and consumer.&#8221; \u00a0Chocolate is always a luxury, of course (and is often deliberately marketed this way), and the product, at its finest, can be exceptionally delicious and exceptionally expensive. Mollison went to C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,229,2124,64,12509],"class_list":["post-47062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-consumption","tag-foodagriculture","tag-globalization","tag-nation-cote-divoire"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47062"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67893,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47062\/revisions\/67893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}