Ouma Assembling Export Markets

The Making and Unmaking of Global Food Connections in West Africa
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-118-63259-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: RGS-IBG Book Series

Assembling Export Markets explores the new 'frontierregions' of the global fresh produce market that has emergedin Ghana over the past decade.

* Represents a major and empirically rich contribution to theemerging field of the social studies of economization andmarketization

* Offers one of the first ethnographic accounts on the making ofglobal commodity chains 'from below'

* Denaturalizes global markets by unpacking their localengagement, materially entangled construction, need formaintenance, and fragile character

* Offers a trans-disciplinary engagement with the constructionand extension of market relations in two frontier regions of globalcapitalism

* Critically examines the opportunities and risks for firms andfarms in Ghana entering global fresh produce markets

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ouma, Stefan

Über Autor(innen)

Stefan Ouma is Assistant Professor in the Departmentof Human Geography at the Goethe University of Frankfurt. Being aneconomic geographer by training, he has worked extensively onglobal commodity chains, agrifood standards, smallholderagriculture, and contract farming in East and West Africa.