The politics of quality and geographic indications for non-timber forest products: Applying Convention Theory beyond food contexts

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Ryo Kohsaka & Yoshitaka Miyake (2021) Journal of Rural Studies, 88, pp. 28-39. Abstract. This study examines how quality is defined, re-defined and dynamically formulated amongst stakeholders under political and global market pressures while registering geographical indications (GIs) for non-edible non-timber forestry products (NTFPs)—namely, Iwate Charcoal and Joboji Urushi—in Japan. To that end, Convention Theory is used as a framework for the two NTFPs as traditionally applied to m...

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