Despite widespread acknowledgement that social entrepreneurship and social enterprise remain highly contextual –and, therefore, contestable– notions which can be interpreted in various ways depending on the ideology and the goals of the institutions championing them (Dart 2004; Dey & Steyaert 2010;...

This article considers a leading form of ethical consumption: fair trade (FT). FT uses a set of standards and – in some cases a certification scheme – to ensure that poor producers and artisans capture a far larger proportion of the value chain than is conventional. This creates a...