Geographies of Marketization

Berndt, Christian; Boeckler, Marc

doi:10.1002/9781118384497.ch12

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“…On the other hand, there is the corresponding practical question of how concrete markets are designed, implemented, maintained, and reproduced. Concrete markets result from the performative realization of closely interrelated 'orderings', including the conversion of goods, people, and regions into commodities, the formatting of calculative agencies, and the identification of the formative settings (sociotechnical devices involving material elements and procedures) through which encounters between goods and agencies are organized (Berndt and Boeckler 2012).…”

Section: Disarticulations and Marketizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Dis/articulating producers, markets, and regions: new directions in critical studies of commodity chainsIn 2008 Werner and Bair proposed a 'disarticulations perspective' as an intervention into the commodity chains and production networks literatures in sociology, geography, and development studies (Bair and Werner, 2011a). (1) While these literatures effectively called our attention to the dynamics of transnational network relations, and especially to the forms of governance through which commodity circuits are coordinated, we (Bair and Werner) argued that extant chain frameworks suffered from an empirical and theoretical bias towards the study of the incorporation of people and places into these circuits. This 'inclusionary bias' results from our tendency, as researchers, to follow the chain, in effect chasing capital to the newest frontier of a production network. Such an approach, we argued, gives short shrift to the uneven geographies of capitalism, and how these geographies shape, and are shaped by, production networks. Our intervention proposed displacing the departure point of commodity chain analysis from network-type models of interfirm transactions to the relationship between global networks and the patterned and contingent reproduction of uneven development. Thus, rather than focusing on the consequences of incorporation into a commodity chain, we wanted instead to ask what are the conditions that enable commodity circuits to form and reform over time.Originally, the commodity chain construct was deployed by world-systems theorists to chart the expansion of a worldwide division of labor. Although we see our project as an extension of this research tradition, we also conceptualize the commodity chain somewhat differently. Rather than an advancing frontier that proceeds by incorporating territorial and social relations inside a hierarchical core-periphery structure of global capitalism, for us the commodity chain is a constantly shifting boundary that demarcates an outside within and reproduces uneven relations at a variety of scales. Influenced by Stuart Hall's notion of articulation developed in the 1980s and more recent literature on primitive accumulation, we proposed the concept of disarticulations to highlight the instabilities, disruptions, and provisional outsides of global production networks. Specifically, we wanted to theorize the significance of these processes for the formation and ongoing restructuring of commodity circuits.The timing of our intervention was not surprising. Uneven development and, in particular, the relationship between capitalist processes and their constitutive outsides has emerged decisively on the agenda of critical social sciences in the last decade. In the wake of the ongoing restructuring of regimes of capitalist accumulation, we have seen renewed attention given to a set of empirically pervasive, but undertheorized, processes of exclusion from and marginalization within capitalist relations. The concrete expression of these processes includes volatile shifts in the...

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Section: Disarticulations and Marketizationmentioning

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“…For example, network and marketization approaches have been motivated by a desire to study markets and economic activities from the ground up in response to critiques of highly abstract supply and demand framework of economic orthodoxy and the tendency toward top-down theorizing in political economy. The result has been a preoccupation with the micro in empirical studies to the frequent neglect of the macro (Callon 1998;Granovetter 2002;Fine 2005;Sunley 2008;Berndt and Boeckler 2012;Ouma 2012). …”

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From Futures Markets to the Farm Gate: A Study of Price Formation along Tanzania’s Coffee Commodity Chain

Bargawi

Newman

2016

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“…Markets involve a process of anonymisation, of social ties cutting, of rational, calculative and efficient post-social coordination. In line with Caliskan and Callon (2010: 2), this modality of economization may be referred to as «marketization» (Berndt & Boeckler 2012).…”

Section: Economy: Geographies Of Marketizationmentioning

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