05967cam a2200817 i 4500 ocn903582827 OCoLC 20171025100955.0 m o d cr ||||||||||| 150216s2015 enk ob 001 0 eng 2015006329 9781118632598 (ePub) 1118632591 (ePub) 9781118632604 (Adobe PDF) 1118632605 (Adobe PDF) 9781118632611 (hardback) 9781118632567 1118632567 NLGGC 392076632 DEBSZ 449476715 GBVCP 823525929 DEBSZ 453342647 DEBBG BV043615902 DEBBG BV043397524 (OCoLC)903582827 (OCoLC)908080326 DLC eng rda DLC N$T DG1 IDEBK CDX EBLCP YDXCP RECBK QGK DEBSZ DEBBG pcc f-gh--- MAIN HD9017.G452 BUS 026000 bisacsh BUS 035000 bisacsh BUS 043030 bisacsh POL 011020 bisacsh 382/.4109667 23 SOC015000 bisacsh Ouma, Stefan. Assembling export markets : the making and unmaking of global food connections in West Africa / Stefan Ouma. [electronic resource] Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2015. 1 online resource. text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier RGS-IBG Book Series Includes bibliographical references and index. Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Preface; Technical Remarks; List of Figures; List of Tables; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction: Struggling with "World Market Integration"; Rethinking Global Connections; Grounding Commodity Chains: Geographies of Marketization; Matters of Concern; The Practical Means of Marketization; Marketization as Proliferation; Of Frontier Regions and Borderlands; How This Book Unfolds; Endnotes; Chapter 2 Querying Marketization; Studying Markets as Practical Accomplishments; Markets as Sociotechnical Agencements "Problems" of Market-MakingExchanging Goods the "Right" Way; Qualified Objectifications; Detachment/Calculation; Singularizations; Knowing and Doing Markets; From Market Knowledge to Knowing Markets; Power in/through Markets; Formatting Market Encounters; The Order(ing) of Markets; Conclusion; Endnotes; Chapter 3 Remaking "the Economy": Taking Ghanaian Horticulture to Global Markets; Models of Organizing "the Economy": From Macro to Micro; A Tale of Two Frontiers; Markets for Development: Organic Mangoes in Northern Ghana; Fresh from Farm: JIT Pineapple Markets; Sites of Attention; Conclusion EndnotesChapter 4 Critical Ethnographies of Marketization; Researching Markets in the Making; Outside/Inside "the Market"; "Reconstructing" Market Practices; Technicalities?; Knowledge Production: Heuristics and Limitations; After "the Field": Veni, Vidi, Vici?; Conclusion; Endnotes; Chapter 5 The Birth of Global Agrifood Market Connections; Nothing Was Packaged for (High-value) Export; Market Enrollment, Not Integration; The Messy Economics of Outgrowing; Market-making as Boundary Work; Outflanking Nature?; The Terms of "World Market" Enrollment; Good(s) Connect(ions) Having the "Right" ProductPerforming the Audit Economy; Relational Properties of Competition; Ongoing Struggles for Retail Worth; The Orderings of JIT; Conclusion; Endnotes; Chapter 6 Enacting Global Connections: The Making of World Market Agencies; Qualculating the Mango Tree; Indeterminate Framings of Worth; Struggling for the Agricola Oeconomicus; Responsibilizing/Autonomizing Farmers; Standardizing Market STAs; Standards and the Stubborn Social; Value/Power; Conclusion; Endnotes; Chapter 7 Markets, Materiality, and (Anti-)Political Encounters; The Hidden Conditions of Global Markets Powerful ValorimetersPricing, Returns, and Visible hands; Power Relations as Relations of Accounting; Accounting: Frontstage; Accounting: Backstage; Conclusion; Endnotes; Chapter 8 Market Crises: When Things Fall Apart, or Won't Come Together; A Model in Crisis; MD2 Takes Over the Market, or How Goods Become Delegitimated; Trading Down in Times of Crisis; Currency and Capital Volatilities; When the Supply Base Disenrolls ...; Reassembling the Market Social?; Recalcitrant "Nature" and the Crisis of the Developmental Market "Assembling Export Markets explores the origins of global agrifood chains through an examination of the new frontier regions of the global fresh produce market that has emerged in the West African Republic of Ghana over the past decade"-- Provided by publisher. Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. Produce trade Social aspects Ghana. Farm produce Ghana Marketing. Agriculture Economic aspects Ghana. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography. bisacsh Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Ghana. Farm produce -- Ghana -- Marketing. Ghana -- Commerce. Ghana -- Economic conditions. Produce trade -- Social aspects -- Ghana. Ghana Commerce. Ghana Economic conditions. Electronic books. Electronic books. Print version: Ouma, Stefan. Assembling export markets Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2015 9781118632611 (DLC) 2014047945 RGS-IBG book series. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118632567 Wiley Online Library ddc BK 207887 207887