1st Edition

Markets in their Place Context, Culture, Finance

242 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Markets are usually discussed in abstract terms, as an economic organizing principle, a generalized alternative to government planning, or even as powerful actors in their own right, able to shape local and national economic destinies. But markets are not abstract. Even as the idea of the market seduces politicians around the world to take advantage of their abstract qualities, they constantly... Read more

1. Putting markets in their place

Russell Prince, Carolyn Morris, Matthew Henry, Aisling Gallagher, and Stephen FitzHerbert

2. Making a diverse Māori economy market: Economic experimentation with digital platforms for Māori produce

Stephen FitzHerbert

3. Making markets for collective concerns: Childcare in a bicultural context

Aisling Gallagher

4. Time work: Assembling regularity in lamb’s market geographies

Matthew Henry

5. Pre-conditions for making (desired) markets in the spirit of Ki Uta Ki Tai - Mountains to the Sea: Re-commoning and economic-environment transitionings

Dan Hikuroa, Richard Le Heron, Erena Le Heron, and the Participatory Processes Research Team

6. On the non-assemblage of a local producer/resort hotel market in Fiji

Gabriel C. M. Laeis and Carolyn Morris

7. ‘I want to sleep at night as well’: Guilt and care in the making of agricultural credit markets

Alexandra Langford, Alana Brekelmans, and Geoffrey Lawrence

8. Schools as marketsites: making markets in New Zealand schools

Nicolas Lewis and Donna Wynd

9. Mobile markets for meters: the connections between new electricity metering markets in New Zealand and Australia

Heather Lovell

10. Fields of dreams: Calculative practices and the New Zealand housing market

Laurence Murphy

11. Fictive places in wine markets: Wine making and place making in New Zealand

John Overton and Warwick E. Murray

Afterword: The place of markets

Russell Prince, Matthew Henry, Carolyn Morris, Aisling Gallagher and Stephen FitzHerbert

Biography

Russell Prince is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Massey University in the School of People, Environment and Planning.

Matthew Henry is an Associate Professor in Planning at Massey University in the School of People, Environment and Planning.

Carolyn Morris is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Massey University in the School of People, Environment and Planning.

Aisling Gallagher is a Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Massey University in the School of People, Environment and Planning.

Stephen FitzHerbert is a cultural economic geographer with the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA).