Keck Navigating Real Markets

The Economic Resilience of Food Wholesale Traders in Dhaka, Bangladesh
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-515-11380-9
Verlag: Franz Steiner
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Deutsch, Englisch, Band Band 19, 240 Seiten, E-Book-Text

Reihe: Megacities and Global Change / Megastädte und globaler Wandel.

In 2007 and 2008, Bangladesh was subject to a food crisis, which intensely hit the country's capital. Dhaka's food supplies were repeatedly disconnected due to floods and cyclones and world market prices for staple foods increased dramatically. In the middle of this situation, the national government launched eviction drives of numerous informal markets in Dhaka. Yet, despite of all these constraints, food traders still managed to guarantee steady supplies. Who are these traders and how did they make Dhaka's food system robust enough to avoid a catastrophe? This study concentrates on Dhaka's wholesale markets where food enters the city, and from where it flows into the urban food system.

The e-book offers a fresh analytic perspective for economic geography by placing emphasis on "real markets", their institutional architectures, their actors and networks, and their specific political arena. Its focus is on the resilience of Dhaka's food wholesale traders. The study demystifies megacities as synonyms for human misery and hardship – not by overlooking poverty, exclusion and vulnerability, but by highlighting people's strengths, their confidence and their capacities to cope with crisis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Keck, Markus

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Wirtschaftsgeographie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;TABLE OF CONTENT;8
2;LIST OF FIGURES;11
3;LIST OF TABLES;12
4;LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS;13
5;LIST OF TEXT BOXES;14
6;PREFACE;16
7;1. INTRODUCTION;18
7.1;1.1 AIM OF THE STUDY;18
7.2;1.2 OUTLINE OF THE STUDY;20
8;2. NAVIGATING REAL MARKETS;24
8.1;2.1 GEOGRAPHY OF FOOD SYSTEMS;25
8.2;2.2 SOCIAL RESILIENCE;30
8.3;2.3 EMBEDDED AGENCY;37
8.4;2.4 REAL MARKETS;45
8.5;2.5 RÉSUMÉ;54
9;3. METHODOLOGY;57
9.1;3.1 TRIANGULATION;57
9.2;3.2 QUANTITATIVE METHODS;60
9.3;3.3 QUALITATIVE METHODS;63
9.4;3.4 LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY;67
10;4. THE FOOD SYSTEM OF DHAKA;69
10.1;4.1 THE MEGACITY OF DHAKA;69
10.2;4.2 RICE FOR THE MEGACITY;78
10.3;4.3 FISH FOR THE MEGACITY;93
10.4;4.4 RÉSUMÉ;107
11;5. FOOD WHOLESALE MARKETS IN DHAKA;110
11.1;5.1 DHAKA’S FOOD WHOLESALE MARKETS;110
11.2;5.2 DHAKA’S VALUE CHAINS FOR FOOD;119
11.3;5.3 RICE AND FISH WHOLESALE TRADERS IN DHAKA;136
11.4;5.4 RÉSUMÉ;147
12;6. THE RESILIENCE OF FOOD WHOLESALE TRADERS IN DHAKA;151
12.1;6.1 THE EMBEDDEDNESS OF FOOD WHOLESALE TRADERS;152
12.2;6.2 MARKETS AS PRACTICE: FOOD WHOLESALE TRADERS’ COPING CAPACITIES;160
12.3;6.3 MARKETS AS NETWORKS: FOOD WHOLESALE TRADERS’ ADAPTIVE CAPACITIES;174
12.4;6.4 MARKETS AS ARENAS: FOOD WHOLESALE TRADERS’ TRANSFORMATIVE CAPACITIES;196
12.5;6.5 RÉSUMÉ;216
13;7. CONCLUSION;221
14;BIBLIOGRAPHY;228
15;APPENDIX;244

Über Autor(innen)

Keck, Markus
Markus Keck is Assistant Professor (akademischer Rat) at the University of Göttingen. He studied Geography, Cultural Anthropology, Modern History, and Political Science in Cologne and received his doctorate from the University of Bonn in 2012. His work is primarily concerned with the current dynamics of food systems in the Global South. His regional focus is in South Asia.