Stefan Ouma
Biographic Data
| ID | 3710656 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefan Ouma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefan |
| FAMILY NAME | Ouma |
| SIGNATURE | OUMA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Frankfurt |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 255 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation
Antipode has become a key platform for engaging with decolonial and anticolonial scholarship, as well as adjacent fields such as Black geographies, Indigenous studies, Latin American feminism, and work on settler‐colonialism. African reference points in this literature, however, have been far less common, both in the journal and more broadly in radical geography. Recognizing that there are several loci of enunciation for decolonial and anticoloni…
Planetary Futures: On Life in Critical Times
Based upon the opening keynote address at the German Congress of Geography held in Frankfurt am Main in 2023, this article traces the current debate on the planetary in the humanities, social sciences and Earth System Science in three parts. Instead of taking the concept of the planetary for granted, we explore the question of how it is reflected in our respective fields of research (cultural geography, social geography, and economic geography) a…
Capitalising on conjunctures: Tesla's ups and downs in financialised capitalism
This article explores the puzzling ups and downs of Tesla, going through one the most volatile stock market swings of the recent past, under conditions of financialised capitalism. We adopt a conjunctural approach, highlighting both the macro and micro dynamics shaping the firm's financial market trajectory. Among these, meticulously maintained narratives, boosted by social media, attracted dedicated followers, while the rise of new retail tradin…
Spaces of Global Production
Spaces of global production comprise a diverse set of spatial figures that result from and support a global division of labour. The proliferation of spatial figures in scholarly work on global production in economic geography and beyond maps a conceptual landscape. The network , the agglomeration , the frontier, the plantation, the gateway , the corridor , the zone , the enclave , and the archipelago are key concepts mobilized by social sciences …
Jenseits eurozentrischer Wirtschaftsgeographie: Ein Kommentar zu Marion Werner
Navigating the landscape of defiant scholarship in and beyond Africa: On archives, bridges and dangers. A commentary on Patricia Daley and Amber Murrey's ‘Defiant scholarship: Dismantling coloniality …
I am grateful for being part of the conversation that was sparked by Patricia Daley and Amber Murrey's thoughtful piece on defiant scholarship and dismantling coloniality in contemporary African geographies. Their contribution raises a broad range of questions for human geography, in and beyond the continent, but also beyond the discipline of geography itself. The ‘beyond geography’ looms large in their contribution since much of the decolonial i…
Farming as Financial Asset: Global Finance and the Making of Institutional Landscapes
Fundamental to the Economic Transformations series is the conviction that "geography matters" in the diverse ways that economies work, for whom they work, and to what ends.The so-called imperatives of globalization, the promises of development, the challenges of environmental sustainability, the dull compulsion of competitive life, the urgency of campaigns for economic rights and social justice -in all of these realms geography really matters, ju…
Investor
Africapitalism
“Every now and again a new era requires a new word or phrase to better encapsulate the changed times” The Africapitalist tells us in its first feature (Rundell, 2014). The first reaction of critical scholarship when encountering a new word or phrase that attracts widespread enthusiasm among political, corporate or academic elites should not be to passionately embrace it, but rather to ask where it comes from – why do we now speak about it? What w…
Changing beyond Recognition”: Reimagining the future of smallholder farming systems in the context of climate change
Rethinking the financialization of 'nature
This editorial provides an analytical intervention to accompany the theme issue's empirical papers on "Rethinking the Financialization of Nature." The papers turn our attention towards three often neglected themes in prior research on finance and nature: (1) the frictional processes through which money leverages nature and resource-based ventures to produce more money ("Getting between M-C-M'"); (2) the role played by moralities, values, and affe…
From financialization to operations of capital: Historicizing and disentangling the finance–farmland-nexus
Assembling Export Markets: The Making and Unmaking of Global Food Connections in West Africa
The new zones of circulation
Global logistics is a burgeoning yet opaque field of techno political intervention. It sustains a world in motion. It is the means to engineer, ensure and manage global commodity circulation. As commodities and cargo are put into circulation, their global ubiquity, mobility and 'orderability' are often regarded as the 'economic normal' of the current century. The formation of private cargo networks and corridors, we argue, relates to a new ration…
The Rise of the BRICS in Africa: The Geopolitics of South-South Relations By PádraigCarmodyLondon: Zed Books, 2013
Situating global finance in the Land Rush Debate: A critical review
The Making and Remaking of Agro-Industries in Africa
This article introduces the special section on the making and remaking of agro-industries in Africa. It examines what the contributions tell us about how agro-industries work, but also why national industries work the way they do, how they came to be that way and what factors and forces drive or hinder their dynamism
Creating and Maintaining Global Connections: Agro-business and the Precarious Making of Fresh-cut Markets
This article reconstructs the evolution of a multinational fruit processing company from Ghana. Starting from the perspective that firms more generally aim at achieving stability in intra- and extra-organisational relations, the article explores the practical means (organisational forms, resources, technologies, strategies and routines) through which the case study company achieved relational stability in global markets, but also shows how this w…
Global Standards, Local Realities: Private Agrifood Governance and the Restructuring of the Kenyan Horticulture Industry
Over the past decade, private food safety and quality standards have become focal points in the supply chain management of large retailers, reshaping governance patterns in global agrifood chains. In this article, I analyze the relationship between private collective standards and the governance of agrifood markets, using the EUREPGAP/GLOBALGAP standard as a vantage point. I discuss the impact of this standard on the organization of supply chains…
Rethinking the financialization of 'nature
This editorial provides an analytical intervention to accompany the theme issue's empirical papers on "Rethinking the Financialization of Nature." The papers turn our attention towards three often neglected themes in prior research on finance and nature: (1) the frictional processes through which money leverages nature and resource-based ventures to produce more money ("Getting between M-C-M'"); (2) the role played by moralities, values, and affe…
From financialization to operations of capital: Historicizing and disentangling the finance–farmland-nexus
Farming as Financial Asset: Global Finance and the Making of Institutional Landscapes
Fundamental to the Economic Transformations series is the conviction that "geography matters" in the diverse ways that economies work, for whom they work, and to what ends.The so-called imperatives of globalization, the promises of development, the challenges of environmental sustainability, the dull compulsion of competitive life, the urgency of campaigns for economic rights and social justice -in all of these realms geography really matters, ju…
Global Standards, Local Realities: Private Agrifood Governance and the Restructuring of the Kenyan Horticulture Industry
Over the past decade, private food safety and quality standards have become focal points in the supply chain management of large retailers, reshaping governance patterns in global agrifood chains. In this article, I analyze the relationship between private collective standards and the governance of agrifood markets, using the EUREPGAP/GLOBALGAP standard as a vantage point. I discuss the impact of this standard on the organization of supply chains…
Changing beyond Recognition”: Reimagining the future of smallholder farming systems in the context of climate change
Planetary Futures: On Life in Critical Times
Based upon the opening keynote address at the German Congress of Geography held in Frankfurt am Main in 2023, this article traces the current debate on the planetary in the humanities, social sciences and Earth System Science in three parts. Instead of taking the concept of the planetary for granted, we explore the question of how it is reflected in our respective fields of research (cultural geography, social geography, and economic geography) a…
Capitalising on conjunctures: Tesla's ups and downs in financialised capitalism
This article explores the puzzling ups and downs of Tesla, going through one the most volatile stock market swings of the recent past, under conditions of financialised capitalism. We adopt a conjunctural approach, highlighting both the macro and micro dynamics shaping the firm's financial market trajectory. Among these, meticulously maintained narratives, boosted by social media, attracted dedicated followers, while the rise of new retail tradin…
Global Standards, Local Realities: Private Agrifood Governance and the Restructuring of the Kenyan Horticulture Industry
Over the past decade, private food safety and quality standards have become focal points in the supply chain management of large retailers, reshaping governance patterns in global agrifood chains. In this article, I analyze the relationship between private collective standards and the governance of agrifood markets, using the EUREPGAP/GLOBALGAP standard as a vantage point. I discuss the impact of this standard on the organization of supply chains…
The Making and Remaking of Agro-Industries in Africa
This article introduces the special section on the making and remaking of agro-industries in Africa. It examines what the contributions tell us about how agro-industries work, but also why national industries work the way they do, how they came to be that way and what factors and forces drive or hinder their dynamism
Creating and Maintaining Global Connections: Agro-business and the Precarious Making of Fresh-cut Markets
This article reconstructs the evolution of a multinational fruit processing company from Ghana. Starting from the perspective that firms more generally aim at achieving stability in intra- and extra-organisational relations, the article explores the practical means (organisational forms, resources, technologies, strategies and routines) through which the case study company achieved relational stability in global markets, but also shows how this w…
Situating global finance in the Land Rush Debate: A critical review
Assembling Export Markets: The Making and Unmaking of Global Food Connections in West Africa
The new zones of circulation
Global logistics is a burgeoning yet opaque field of techno political intervention. It sustains a world in motion. It is the means to engineer, ensure and manage global commodity circulation. As commodities and cargo are put into circulation, their global ubiquity, mobility and 'orderability' are often regarded as the 'economic normal' of the current century. The formation of private cargo networks and corridors, we argue, relates to a new ration…
The Rise of the BRICS in Africa: The Geopolitics of South-South Relations By PádraigCarmodyLondon: Zed Books, 2013
From financialization to operations of capital: Historicizing and disentangling the finance–farmland-nexus
Rethinking the financialization of 'nature
This editorial provides an analytical intervention to accompany the theme issue's empirical papers on "Rethinking the Financialization of Nature." The papers turn our attention towards three often neglected themes in prior research on finance and nature: (1) the frictional processes through which money leverages nature and resource-based ventures to produce more money ("Getting between M-C-M'"); (2) the role played by moralities, values, and affe…
Investor
Africapitalism
“Every now and again a new era requires a new word or phrase to better encapsulate the changed times” The Africapitalist tells us in its first feature (Rundell, 2014). The first reaction of critical scholarship when encountering a new word or phrase that attracts widespread enthusiasm among political, corporate or academic elites should not be to passionately embrace it, but rather to ask where it comes from – why do we now speak about it? What w…
Changing beyond Recognition”: Reimagining the future of smallholder farming systems in the context of climate change
Farming as Financial Asset: Global Finance and the Making of Institutional Landscapes
Fundamental to the Economic Transformations series is the conviction that "geography matters" in the diverse ways that economies work, for whom they work, and to what ends.The so-called imperatives of globalization, the promises of development, the challenges of environmental sustainability, the dull compulsion of competitive life, the urgency of campaigns for economic rights and social justice -in all of these realms geography really matters, ju…
Navigating the landscape of defiant scholarship in and beyond Africa: On archives, bridges and dangers. A commentary on Patricia Daley and Amber Murrey's ‘Defiant scholarship: Dismantling coloniality …
I am grateful for being part of the conversation that was sparked by Patricia Daley and Amber Murrey's thoughtful piece on defiant scholarship and dismantling coloniality in contemporary African geographies. Their contribution raises a broad range of questions for human geography, in and beyond the continent, but also beyond the discipline of geography itself. The ‘beyond geography’ looms large in their contribution since much of the decolonial i…
Spaces of Global Production
Spaces of global production comprise a diverse set of spatial figures that result from and support a global division of labour. The proliferation of spatial figures in scholarly work on global production in economic geography and beyond maps a conceptual landscape. The network , the agglomeration , the frontier, the plantation, the gateway , the corridor , the zone , the enclave , and the archipelago are key concepts mobilized by social sciences …
Jenseits eurozentrischer Wirtschaftsgeographie: Ein Kommentar zu Marion Werner
Planetary Futures: On Life in Critical Times
Based upon the opening keynote address at the German Congress of Geography held in Frankfurt am Main in 2023, this article traces the current debate on the planetary in the humanities, social sciences and Earth System Science in three parts. Instead of taking the concept of the planetary for granted, we explore the question of how it is reflected in our respective fields of research (cultural geography, social geography, and economic geography) a…
Capitalising on conjunctures: Tesla's ups and downs in financialised capitalism
This article explores the puzzling ups and downs of Tesla, going through one the most volatile stock market swings of the recent past, under conditions of financialised capitalism. We adopt a conjunctural approach, highlighting both the macro and micro dynamics shaping the firm's financial market trajectory. Among these, meticulously maintained narratives, boosted by social media, attracted dedicated followers, while the rise of new retail tradin…
African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation
Antipode has become a key platform for engaging with decolonial and anticolonial scholarship, as well as adjacent fields such as Black geographies, Indigenous studies, Latin American feminism, and work on settler‐colonialism. African reference points in this literature, however, have been far less common, both in the journal and more broadly in radical geography. Recognizing that there are several loci of enunciation for decolonial and anticoloni…
Business (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Financialization (4 works) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (4 works)