Today I’m trying something new! I recorded this video for my Gender & Cofefe students from our class on 29 November 2024, becuase we were having such a deep discussion of the challenges that we ran out of time for me to share this concept.
So I thought I’d record it on Zoom for all of YOU, dear Substack Subscribers!
This way, you also get a nugget of learning both from my PhD dissertation and my course.
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As I share in the video, I coined the term as part of my PhD dissertation (published in April 2024) titled “ ‘Coffee Depends on Women’: The Gendered Coffee Paradox of Kenya’s Coffee Industry.” The term draws on the 2005 concept of “The Coffee Paradox,” described in the very well-researched political economy of coffee book by Benoit Daviron & Stefano Ponte.
I hope you enjoy the video that explains their concept (briefly) and why another layer was added to the continued paradoxes of the global coffee industry in our neoliberal capitalist trade system.
In the video, I also refer to Emma Dabiri’s 2021 book What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition (published by Penguin), quoting from her chapter titled “Interrogating Capitalism.”
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If you want more on these subjects, there’s still a few spots left in my Gender & Coffee course tomorrow (Wed 4 Dec) that runs on Zoom from 12-3:30pm EST New York / 20-23:30 EAT Kenya time. All are welcome - whether you work in coffee or not!
Send me a message here to enroll or via email: AWorldinYourCup@gmail.com
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