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

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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-MakingExchanging 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

EndnotesChapter 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" ProductPerforming 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 ValorimetersPricing, 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