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

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