Assembling Export Markets – The Making and Unmaking of Global Food Connections in West Africa

<p>Series Editors Preface viii</p>
<p>Preface ix</p>
<p>Technical Remarks xi</p>
<p>List of Figures xii</p>
<p>List of Tables xiii</p>
<p>Abbreviations xiv</p>
<p>1 Introduction: Struggling with World Market Integration 1</p>
<p>Rethinking Global Connections 6</p>
<p>Grounding Commodity Chains: Geographies of Marketization 9</p>
<p>Matters of Concern 14</p>
<p>The Practical Means of Marketization 15</p>
<p>Marketization as Proliferation 16</p>
<p>Of Frontier Regions and Borderlands 16</p>
<p>How This Book Unfolds 17</p>
<p>2 Querying Marketization 21</p>
<p>Studying Markets as Practical Accomplishments 23</p>
<p>Markets as Sociotechnical Agencements 25</p>
<p> Problems of Market ]Making 29</p>
<p>Exchanging Goods the Right Way 31</p>
<p>Qualified Objectifications 32</p>
<p>Detachment/Calculation 35</p>
<p>Singularizations 36</p>
<p>Knowing and Doing Markets 37</p>
<p>From Market Knowledge to Knowing Markets 38</p>
<p>Power in/through Markets 39</p>
<p>Formatting Market Encounters 42</p>
<p>The Order(ing) of Markets 44</p>
<p>Conclusion 49</p>
<p>3 Remaking the Economy : Taking Ghanaian Horticulture to Global Markets 53</p>
<p>Models of Organizing the Economy : From Macro to Micro 56</p>
<p>A Tale of Two Frontiers 59</p>
<p>Markets for Development: Organic Mangoes in Northern Ghana 60</p>
<p>Fresh from Farm: JIT Pineapple Markets 66</p>
<p>Sites of Attention 71</p>
<p>Conclusion 74</p>
<p>4 Critical Ethnographies of Marketization 77</p>
<p>Researching Markets in the Making 79</p>
<p>Outside/Inside the Market 81</p>
<p> Reconstructing Market Practices 85</p>
<p>Technicalities? 86</p>
<p>Knowledge Production: Heuristics and Limitations 88</p>
<p>After the Field : Veni, Vidi, Vici? 90</p>
<p>Conclusion 92</p>
<p>5 The Birth of Global Agrifood Market Connections 94</p>
<p>Nothing Was Packaged for (High ]value) Export 97</p>
<p>Market Enrollment, Not Integration 98</p>
<p>The Messy Economics of Outgrowing 107</p>
<p>Market ]making as Boundary Work 108</p>
<p>Outflanking Nature? 113</p>
<p>The Terms of World Market Enrollment 115</p>
<p>Good(s) Connect(ions) 119</p>
<p>Having the Right Product 121</p>
<p>Performing the Audit Economy 122</p>
<p>Relational Properties of Competition 123</p>
<p>Ongoing Struggles for Retail Worth 124</p>
<p>The Orderings of JIT 125</p>
<p>Conclusion 126</p>
<p>6 Enacting Global Connections: The Making of World Market Agencies 131</p>
<p>Qualculating the Mango Tree 133</p>
<p>Indeterminate Framings of Worth 133</p>
<p>Struggling for the Agricola Oeconomicus 137</p>
<p>Responsibilizing/Autonomizing Farmers 140</p>
<p>Standardizing Market STAs 141</p>
<p>Standards and the Stubborn Social 147</p>
<p>Value/Power 149</p>
<p>Conclusion 151</p>
<p>7 Markets, Materiality, and (Anti ])Political Encounters 153</p>
<p>The Hidden Conditions of Global Markets 155</p>
<p>Powerful Valorimeters 157</p>
<p>Pricing, Returns, and Visible hands 159</p>
<p>Power Relations as Relations of Accounting 162</p>
<p>Accounting: Frontstage 165</p>
<p>Accounting: Backstage 166</p>
<p>Conclusion 171</p>
<p>8 Market Crises: When Things Fall Apart, or Won t Come Together 174</p>
<p>A Model in Crisis 177</p>
<p>MD2 Takes Over the Market, or How Goods Become Delegitimated 178</p>
<p>Trading Down in Times of Crisis 183</p>
<p>Currency and Capital Volatilities 183</p>
<p>When the Supply Base Disenrolls 184</p>
<p>Reassembling the Market Social? 187</p>
<p>Recalcitrant Nature and the Crisis of the Developmental Market 189</p>
<p>(Mis ])calculating Nature and other Surprises: Mango Trees as Precarious Commodities 191</p>
<p>Crisis Accounts 193</p>
<p>Regrouping 196</p>
<p>The Corporate Calculus of the Crisis 197</p>
<p>Fixing Yields: Contested Pathways of Qualification 198</p>
<p>Conclusion 201</p>
<p>9 Conclusion 205</p>
<p>Beyond Inclusion 209</p>
<p> Market Modernity, Alternatives, Critique 212</p>
<p>Beyond Agrifood: Profanizing Marketization 213</p>
<p>References 215</p>
<p>Index 232</p>