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Assembling Export Markets: The Making and Unmaking of Global Food Connections in West Africa
Stefan Ouma
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Description for Assembling Export Markets: The Making and Unmaking of Global Food Connections in West Africa
Paperback. Assembling Export Markets explores the new 'frontier regions' of the global fresh produce market that has emerged in Ghana over the past decade. Series: RGS-IBG Book Series. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFD; RGCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 334.
Assembling Export Markets explores the new ‘frontier regions’ of the global fresh produce market that has emerged in Ghana over the past decade.
Assembling Export Markets explores the new ‘frontier regions’ of the global fresh produce market that has emerged in Ghana over the past decade.
- Represents a major and empirically rich contribution to the emerging field of the social studies of economization and marketization
- Offers one of the first ethnographic accounts on the making of global commodity chains ‘from below’
- Denaturalizes global markets by unpacking their local engagement, materially entangled construction, need for maintenance, and fragile character
- Offers a trans-disciplinary engagement with the construction and extension of market relations in two frontier regions of global capitalism
- Critically examines the opportunities and risks for firms and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
RGS-IBG Book Series
Condition
New
Weight
331g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9781118632581
SKU
V9781118632581
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Ref
99-1
About Stefan Ouma
Stefan Ouma is Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Geography at the Goethe University of Frankfurt. Being an economic geographer by training, he has worked extensively on global commodity chains, agrifood standards, smallholder agriculture, and contract farming in East and West Africa.
Reviews for Assembling Export Markets: The Making and Unmaking of Global Food Connections in West Africa
I learned a lot reading this monograph, and find it to be a valuable addition to the commodity chain literature, providing sharp insights for thinking about critical ethnographies of markets and market making. - Edward F. Fischer, Vanderbilt University, Economic Sociology: The European Electronic Newsletter, Volume 18, Number 2 Focusing on development through export-oriented integration into global markets, [Assembling Export ... Read more