{"product_id":"assembling-export-markets-9781118632581","title":"Assembling Export Markets","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAssembling Export Markets explores the new    frontier regions    of the global fresh produce market that has emerged in Ghana over the past decade.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeries Editors’ Preface \u003c\/i\u003eviii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface \u003c\/i\u003eix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTechnical Remarks \u003c\/i\u003exi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of Figures \u003c\/i\u003exii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of Tables \u003c\/i\u003exiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbbreviations \u003c\/i\u003exiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Introduction: Struggling with “World Market Integration” 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRethinking Global Connections 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGrounding Commodity Chains: Geographies of Marketization 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMatters of Concern 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Practical Means of Marketization \u003c\/i\u003e15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarketization as Proliferation \u003c\/i\u003e16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOf Frontier Regions and Borderlands \u003c\/i\u003e16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHow This Book Unfolds 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Querying Marketization 21\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStudying Markets as Practical Accomplishments 23\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarkets as Sociotechnical Agencements \u003c\/i\u003e25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Problems” of Market\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e]\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaking \u003c\/i\u003e29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExchanging Goods the “Right” Way 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eQualified Objectifications \u003c\/i\u003e32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDetachment\/Calculation \u003c\/i\u003e35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSingularizations \u003c\/i\u003e36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKnowing \u003ci\u003eand \u003c\/i\u003eDoing Markets 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Market Knowledge to Knowing Markets \u003c\/i\u003e38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePower in\/through Markets \u003c\/i\u003e39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormatting Market Encounters 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Order(ing) of Markets 44\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Remaking “the Economy”: Taking Ghanaian Horticulture to Global Markets 53\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModels of Organizing “the Economy”: From Macro to Micro 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Tale of Two Frontiers 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarkets for Development: Organic Mangoes in Northern Ghana \u003c\/i\u003e60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFresh from Farm: JIT Pineapple Markets \u003c\/i\u003e66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSites of Attention 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Critical Ethnographies of Marketization 77\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResearching Markets in the Making 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOutside\/Inside “the Market” 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Reconstructing” Market Practices 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTechnicalities? \u003c\/i\u003e86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eKnowledge Production: Heuristics and Limitations \u003c\/i\u003e88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter “the Field”: \u003ci\u003eVeni, Vidi, Vici\u003c\/i\u003e? 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 The Birth of Global Agrifood Market Connections 94\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNothing Was Packaged for (High]value) Export 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarket Enrollment, Not Integration \u003c\/i\u003e98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Messy Economics of Outgrowing \u003c\/i\u003e107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarket\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e]\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003emaking as Boundary Work \u003c\/i\u003e108\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutflanking Nature? \u003c\/i\u003e113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Terms of “World Market” Enrollment 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGood(s) Connect(ions) 119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHaving the “Right” Product \u003c\/i\u003e121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePerforming the Audit Economy \u003c\/i\u003e122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRelational Properties of Competition \u003c\/i\u003e123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOngoing Struggles for Retail Worth \u003c\/i\u003e124\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Orderings of JIT \u003c\/i\u003e125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 126\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Enacting Global Connections: The Making of World Market Agencies 131\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eQualculating the Mango Tree 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndeterminate Framings of Worth \u003c\/i\u003e133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStruggling for the Agricola Oeconomicus \u003c\/i\u003e137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResponsibilizing\/Autonomizing Farmers 140\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStandardizing Market STAs \u003c\/i\u003e141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eStandards and the Stubborn Social \u003c\/i\u003e147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eValue\/Power 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 151\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Markets, Materiality, and (Anti\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e]\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e)Political Encounters 153\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Hidden Conditions of Global Markets 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePowerful Valorimeters 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePricing, Returns, and Visible hands 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePower Relations as Relations of Accounting 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAccounting: Frontstage \u003c\/i\u003e165\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAccounting: Backstage \u003c\/i\u003e166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Market Crises: When Things Fall Apart, or Won’t Come Together 174\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Model in Crisis 177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMD2 Takes Over the Market, or How Goods Become Delegitimated \u003c\/i\u003e178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTrading Down in Times of Crisis \u003c\/i\u003e183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCurrency and Capital Volatilities \u003c\/i\u003e183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen the Supply Base Disenrolls … \u003c\/i\u003e184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReassembling the Market Social? 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecalcitrant “Nature” and the Crisis of the Developmental Market 189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e(Mis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e]\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e)calculating “Nature” and other Surprises: Mango Trees as Precarious Commodities \u003c\/i\u003e191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrisis Accounts \u003c\/i\u003e193\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRegrouping 196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Corporate Calculus of the Crisis \u003c\/i\u003e197\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFixing Yields: Contested Pathways of Qualification \u003c\/i\u003e198\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 201\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Conclusion 205\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeyond Inclusion 209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Market Modernity,” Alternatives, Critique 212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeyond Agrifood: Profanizing Marketization 213\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReferences \u003c\/i\u003e215\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e232\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406897422679,"sku":"9781118632581","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/assembling-export-markets-9781118632581","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}