Book contents
- Market Studies
- Market Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Multiple Pasts, Presents and Futures of Markets and Market Studies
- Part I Market Designs and Market Misfires
- Part II Post-Performative Approaches to Studying Markets
- Part III Valuation
- Part IV Markets in Motion: Places and Spaces
- Chapter 15 Going to a Safe Place: (Re)Qualifying Market Sites in the Context of a Global Pandemic
- Chapter 16 #CovidArcadia: The Pandemic Conditions of the Emergence of Digital-Affective Atmosphere
- Chapter 17 Making Space and Beating a Path to a Marketplace: The Uneven Spatial Ordering of Christmas Tourism Markets
- Chapter 18 Small Trading Circuits and Micro-Logistics in Pericapitalist Markets
- Part V The Secret Life of Market Studies Methods
- Part VI Broadening the Perspectives in Market Studies
- Part VII Future (Im)Perfect Markets
- Index
- References
Chapter 18 - Small Trading Circuits and Micro-Logistics in Pericapitalist Markets
from Part IV - Markets in Motion: Places and Spaces
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 November 2024
- Market Studies
- Market Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Multiple Pasts, Presents and Futures of Markets and Market Studies
- Part I Market Designs and Market Misfires
- Part II Post-Performative Approaches to Studying Markets
- Part III Valuation
- Part IV Markets in Motion: Places and Spaces
- Chapter 15 Going to a Safe Place: (Re)Qualifying Market Sites in the Context of a Global Pandemic
- Chapter 16 #CovidArcadia: The Pandemic Conditions of the Emergence of Digital-Affective Atmosphere
- Chapter 17 Making Space and Beating a Path to a Marketplace: The Uneven Spatial Ordering of Christmas Tourism Markets
- Chapter 18 Small Trading Circuits and Micro-Logistics in Pericapitalist Markets
- Part V The Secret Life of Market Studies Methods
- Part VI Broadening the Perspectives in Market Studies
- Part VII Future (Im)Perfect Markets
- Index
- References
Summary
Taking a spatial and pragmatic approach to markets, this chapter develops an understanding of small trade and its logistics in markets at the periphery of global capitalism. Based on field surveys carried out in Senegal, it examines the day-to-day interactions between wholesalers, resellers and logistics intermediaries that organize the circulation of goods within and between distributed marketplaces and spaces. The research question addresses the process of ‘scaling up’ that transforms a multitude of small hawker transactions into mass consumer markets. The analysis reveals a reticular structure interconnecting individual and informal cross-border traders and shopkeepers, resellers of differing sizes and capacities, and the interconnection of these parties by ‘coxers’ and drivers, who are actors in both micro-logistics and hawking. It shows that the daily circulation of a multitude of small batches of goods relies on logistics assemblages recomposed on a day-to-day basis, based on kinship (interpersonal alliances), tech-ship (micro-technologies) and a credit chain. It shows how this socio-technical circulation infrastructure is a key driver of market access for small traders, allows for the conquest of spatial scales, and provides a flexibility of hierarchies and trajectories as a form of market organization.
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- Market StudiesMapping, Theorizing and Impacting Market Action, pp. 294 - 314Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024
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