Quelle cogestion partenariale des filières du commerce équitable? Articuler représentations, contrôle et espaces de négociations

Abstract

Partnership is one of the less well-defined concepts of fair trade, yet one central to its definition. It has three components (representational regime, control mechanisms and spaces of negotiation) that coexist and have a variable importance depending on the moment of the history of the movement. From a case study of a partnership between CIAP (Peru), Artisans du Monde and Solidarmonde (France), the paper propose an analysis of those dimensions. From an actual dominating regime of representations and mechanisms of control, we propose a discussion on the tools that would allow building on the spaces of negotiations available in the relation to construct partnership management mechanism. Using the literature on international cooperation and evaluation, tools for a co- anagement of the chain based on the concept of partnership are proposed as a main base on which to build relations between northern and southern stakeholders in fair trade.