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Economic Spaces of Pastoral Production and Commodity Systems : Markets and Livelihoods.
Title:
Economic Spaces of Pastoral Production and Commodity Systems : Markets and Livelihoods.
Author:
Heron, Richard Le.
ISBN:
9781409425328
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (362 pages)
Series:
Ashgate Economic Geography Series
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: Pastoralists in the Market -- 1 Introduction: Pastoral Economies Between Resilience and Exposure -- 2 Theoretical Plurality in Markets Conceived as Social and Political Institutions -- 3 Social Vulnerability and Livelihood Security -- Part II: From Subsistence to Market Production: Post-Colonial Africa -- 4 Livestock Production and Pastoral Livelihood Security in Western Chad -- 5 Pastoral-Sedentary Market Relations in a War Situation: The Baqqāra-Nuba Case (Sudan) -- 6 Pastoral Integration in East African Livestock Markets -- 7 Livestock Marketing Chains in Northern Kenya: Re-Aligning Exchange Systems in Risky Environments -- 8 Market Spaces in a Globalising Periphery -- Part III: From State to Market Production: Post-Socialist Contexts -- 9 Pastoralism in the Pamirs -- 10 Mongolian Pastoral Economy and its Integration into the World Market -- 11 Nomads and their Market Relations in Eastern Tibet's Yushu Regions -- 12 Capitalism in the Tundra or Tundra in Capitalism? -- Part IV: From Commercialised Production to Integrated Markets -- 13 Livestock Markets and Drought in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 14 The UK Sheep Industry -- 15 Market-Making and Livelihood Challenges in Contemporary New Zealand's Dairy and Sheep -- 16 Contested Market-Relations Around Value and Values: Live Sheep Exports from Western Australia -- 17 Conclusion: Embodied Risks of Exchange Relations -- Index.
Abstract:
Pastoralism as a land use system is under recognized in terms of its contribution to food provision, livelihoods as well as to human security. This book is the first attempt to explore the dynamics of economic spaces of pastoral production and commodity systems for explicit South and North positionings. It develops and applies a new approach in combining agri-food, market and commodity chain perspectives with livelihood approaches. This enables new understandings of re-aligning exchange relations between the global south and the global north. The case studies presented open up new empirical insights in largely under-researched areas, such as Afghanistan, Chad, Tibet and Siberia and very recent changes in industrialized economies with major pastoral sectors. The book reveals new evidence and theoretical insights about significant changes in established producer-consumer relations in agriculture and food.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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