The Resource Market encounters : consumer cultures in twentieth-century Ghana, Bianca Murillo
Market encounters : consumer cultures in twentieth-century Ghana, Bianca Murillo
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The item Market encounters : consumer cultures in twentieth-century Ghana, Bianca Murillo represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in European University Institute.
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- Summary
- In Market Encounters, Bianca Murillo explores the shifting social terrains that made the buying and selling of goods in modern Ghana possible. Fusing economic and business history with social and cultural history, she traces the evolution of consumerism in the colonial Gold Coast and independent Ghana from the late nineteenth century through the state violence of the 1970s, in a work of depth and interdisciplinary finesse. Murillo brings shop floor sales clerks, market women, and everyday consumers in Ghana to the center of a story that is all too often told in sweeping metanarratives about what happens to Africans when they are incorporated into global markets. In foregrounding people over objects, Market Encounters is a refreshing departure from the conventional focus on the social meaning of things. By emphasizing the centrality of human relationships to Ghana's economic past, Murillo introduces a radical rethinking of consumption studies from an African-centered perspective. The result is a keen look at colonial capitalism in all of its intricacies, legacies, and contradictions, including its entanglement with gender and race.--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xv, 232 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction: Consuming histories and creating economies
- A door "wide open" imagining Gold Coast markets
- "We cannot afford to be fooled." African intermediaries on shifting commercial terrain
- "In time for independence." Kingsway Department Store, modernity, and the new nation
- "Shop window on the world." Ghana's first international trade fair and the politics of wealth and accumulation
- "Power to the people." Militarization of the market and the war against profiteers
- Afterword: From structural adjustment to shopping malls
- Isbn
- 9780821422885
- Label
- Market encounters : consumer cultures in twentieth-century Ghana
- Title
- Market encounters
- Title remainder
- consumer cultures in twentieth-century Ghana
- Statement of responsibility
- Bianca Murillo
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In Market Encounters, Bianca Murillo explores the shifting social terrains that made the buying and selling of goods in modern Ghana possible. Fusing economic and business history with social and cultural history, she traces the evolution of consumerism in the colonial Gold Coast and independent Ghana from the late nineteenth century through the state violence of the 1970s, in a work of depth and interdisciplinary finesse. Murillo brings shop floor sales clerks, market women, and everyday consumers in Ghana to the center of a story that is all too often told in sweeping metanarratives about what happens to Africans when they are incorporated into global markets. In foregrounding people over objects, Market Encounters is a refreshing departure from the conventional focus on the social meaning of things. By emphasizing the centrality of human relationships to Ghana's economic past, Murillo introduces a radical rethinking of consumption studies from an African-centered perspective. The result is a keen look at colonial capitalism in all of its intricacies, legacies, and contradictions, including its entanglement with gender and race.--
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- Provided by Publisher
- Cataloging source
- IEN/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Murillo, Bianca
- Dewey number
- 381.309667
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- New African histories
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Consumption (Economics)
- Consumption (Economics)
- Consumers
- Ghana
- Label
- Market encounters : consumer cultures in twentieth-century Ghana, Bianca Murillo
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- Contents
- Introduction: Consuming histories and creating economies -- A door "wide open" imagining Gold Coast markets -- "We cannot afford to be fooled." African intermediaries on shifting commercial terrain -- "In time for independence." Kingsway Department Store, modernity, and the new nation -- "Shop window on the world." Ghana's first international trade fair and the politics of wealth and accumulation -- "Power to the people." Militarization of the market and the war against profiteers -- Afterword: From structural adjustment to shopping malls
- Control code
- ocn982091460
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xv, 232 pages
- Isbn
- 9780821422885
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)982091460
- Label
- Market encounters : consumer cultures in twentieth-century Ghana, Bianca Murillo
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: Consuming histories and creating economies -- A door "wide open" imagining Gold Coast markets -- "We cannot afford to be fooled." African intermediaries on shifting commercial terrain -- "In time for independence." Kingsway Department Store, modernity, and the new nation -- "Shop window on the world." Ghana's first international trade fair and the politics of wealth and accumulation -- "Power to the people." Militarization of the market and the war against profiteers -- Afterword: From structural adjustment to shopping malls
- Control code
- ocn982091460
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xv, 232 pages
- Isbn
- 9780821422885
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)982091460
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