Assembling Export Markets : The Making and Unmaking of Global Food Connections in West Africa Hardback
by Stefan (Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany) Ouma
Part of the RGS-IBG Book Series series
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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 marketizationOffers 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 characterOffers a trans-disciplinary engagement with the construction and extension of market relations in two frontier regions of global capitalismCritically examines the opportunities and risks for firms and farms in Ghana entering global fresh produce markets
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:264 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:12/05/2015
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- ISBN:9781118632611
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:264 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:12/05/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9781118632611
