19 research outputs found
The person in the disabled body: a perspective on culture and personhood from the margins
Dark touristic perception: Motivation, experience and benefits interpreted from the visit to seismic memorial sites in Sichuan province
The effects of haze on dew quality in the urban ecosystem of Changchun, Jilin Province, China
Spatiotemporal variations in soil cultivable mycobiota at the Arava desert (Israel) along latitudinal and elevational gradients
Using task-based interviews to generate hypotheses about mathematical practice: mathematics education research on mathematiciansâ use of examples in proof-related activities
Governing through markets: Multinational firms in the bazaar economy
This article highlights a counterintuitive dynamic of neoliberal globalization. India has controversially liberalized foreign investment rules in the politically sensitive food retail sector. Critics argue that India bowed to pressure from multinational corporations, consistent with a common view that under neoliberalism markets eclipse state power. We suggest by contrast that policymakers seek multinational firms to strengthen their capacity to govern food markets that for centuries have been dominated by networks of local traders. These traders use informal conventions of market governance that have long proven resistant to centralized state control. Global retailers promise to transform these opaque, âtraditionalâ systems into transparent, âmodern,â supply chains that comply with liberal rule of law principles. Thus we argue the turn to multinational capital should neither be understood simply through the logics of state capture or welfare economics, but rather also as a political governance project that illustrates how different kinds of markets produce different conceptions of the state