Assembling Export Markets Paperback

Stefan Ouma

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 farms in ghana entering global fresh produce markets

1118632583

9781118632581

English

John Wiley And Sons Inc

26/May/15

264

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.

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 markets is] grounded in a wealth of ethnographic material, gathered with an amount of fieldwork that few scholars are prepared or are able to invest in the current academic environment this impressive study of attempts to make agricultural markets in ghana is cutting-edge scholarly work of the highest quality that I greatly enjoyed reading. - Christian berndt, economic geography, vol. 93 No. 2.