Assembling Export Markets

<i>Assembling Export Markets</i> explores the new ‘frontier regions’ of the global fresh produce market that has emerged in Ghana over the past decade.<br /> <ul> <li>Represents a major and empirically rich contribution to the emerging field of the social studies of economization and marketization</li> <li>Offers one of the first ethnographic accounts on the making of global commodity chains ‘from below’</li> <li>Denaturalizes global markets by unpacking their local engagement, materially entangled construction, need for maintenance, and fragile character</li> <li>Offers a trans-disciplinary engagement with the construction and extension of market relations in two frontier regions of global capitalism</li> <li>Critically examines the opportunities and risks for firms and farms in Ghana entering global fresh produce markets</li> </ul>