Assembling export markets : the making and unmaking of global food connections in West Africa / / Stefan Ouma |
Autore | Ouma Stefan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | West Sussex, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 p.) |
Disciplina | 382/.4109667 |
Collana | RGS-IBG Book Series |
Soggetto topico |
Produce trade - Social aspects - Ghana
Farm produce - Ghana - Marketing Agriculture - Economic aspects - Ghana |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-118-63260-5
1-118-63261-3 1-118-63259-1 |
Classificazione | SOC015000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910131299103321 |
Ouma Stefan
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West Sussex, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Assembling export markets : the making and unmaking of global food connections in West Africa / / Stefan Ouma |
Autore | Ouma Stefan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | West Sussex, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 p.) |
Disciplina | 382/.4109667 |
Collana | RGS-IBG Book Series |
Soggetto topico |
Produce trade - Social aspects - Ghana
Farm produce - Ghana - Marketing Agriculture - Economic aspects - Ghana |
ISBN |
1-118-63260-5
1-118-63261-3 1-118-63259-1 |
Classificazione | SOC015000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827812803321 |
Ouma Stefan
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West Sussex, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ghana's economic and agricultural transformation : past performance and future prospects / / Xinshen Diao, Peter Hazell, Shashidhara Kolavalli, and Danielle Resnick [[electronic resource]] |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 pages) |
Disciplina | 330.9667 |
Collana | Oxford scholarship online |
Soggetto topico |
Economic development - Ghana
Agriculture - Economic aspects - Ghana |
ISBN |
0-19-258403-0
0-19-188059-0 0-19-258404-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910404160503321 |
Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2019 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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