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

'In transparently clear prose, Stefan Ouma has written awonderfully rich empirical account of how global markets fortropical fruit are made both materially and institutionally at theintersection of very particular local sites. The book is anotherterrific example of the usefulness of the theory of economicperformativity that German economic geographers have increasinglyhoned and made their own.'
-- Trevor Barnes, Department of Geography, University ofBritish Columbia
 
'In this provocative book, Ouma challenges theconventional wisdom of both market enthusiasts and critics. Throughinsights from across the social sciences, he shows how both marketinstitutions and the persons who perform them always emerge fromparticular messy historical circumstances, creating differentformats and distributions of power in different locations.Ouma's 'on the ground' study offers a new andimportant approach to understanding markets.'
-- Lawrence Busch, Department of Sociology, Michigan StateUniversity