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Record Nr.

UNINA9910131299103321

Autore

Ouma Stefan

Titolo

Assembling export markets : the making and unmaking of global food connections in West Africa / / Stefan Ouma

Pubbl/distr/stampa

West Sussex, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-118-63260-5

1-118-63261-3

1-118-63259-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Collana

RGS-IBG Book Series

Classificazione

SOC015000

Disciplina

382/.4109667

Soggetti

Produce trade - Social aspects - Ghana

Farm produce - Ghana - Marketing

Agriculture - Economic aspects - Ghana

Electronic books.

Ghana Commerce

Ghana Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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-Making Exchanging 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

Endnotes Chapter 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" Product Performing 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 Valorimeters Pricing, 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

(Mis-)calculating "Nature" and other Surprises: Mango Trees as Precarious Commodities

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910970691603321

Titolo

Religion and change in modern Britain / / edited by Linda Woodhead and Rebecca Catto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2012

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-47500-1

1-283-46161-7

9786613461612

0-203-13064-2

1-136-47501-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (425 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WoodheadLinda

CattoRebecca

Disciplina

200.941

Soggetti

Religion

Great Britain Religion 20th century

Great Britain Religion 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Religion and Change in Modern Britain; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; List of plates; Notes on contributors; Introduction; 1 Controversies as a lens on change; PART 1 Changing religious forms; 2 Christianity: loss of monopoly; Case study 1: The formation of the United Reformed Church; 3 Judaism, Sikhism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism: post-war settlements; Introduction; Judaism; Sikhism; Islam; Hinduism; Buddhism; Conclusion; Case study 2: The Inter Faith Network and the development of inter faith relations in Britain; 4 Alternative spiritualities: marginal and mainstream

5 God-changeCase study 3: The religiosity of young people growing up in poverty; 6 Changing British ritualization; Case study 4: Multi-faith spaces as symptoms and agents of change; Images of religion and change in modern Britain; PART 2 Wider influences; 7 The changing faces of media and religion; Case study 5: Religion, youth cultures and popular music; 8 Religion, welfare and education; Case study 6: The



role of faith-based organizations in service provision for homeless people; 9 Religion, politics and law; Case study 7: Religion, human rights law and 'opting out' of religious education

PART 3 Theoretical perspectives10 Cultural perspectives; 11 Social perspectives; 12 The religious and the secular; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a fully up-to-date and comprehensive guide to religion in Britain since 1945. A team of leading scholars provide a fresh analysis and overview, with a particular focus on diversity and change. They examine:relations between religious and secular beliefs and institutionsthe evolving role and status of the churches the growth and 'settlement' of non-Christian religious communitiesthe spread and diversification of alternative spiritualitiesreligion in welfare, education, media, politics and lawtheoretical persp