Markets and Fields
An Ethnography of Cotton Production and Exchange in a Turkish Village
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 6094117 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Koray Caliskan (0000-0001-9876-9405, Bogaziçi University, autor de correspondencia), Koray Çalışkan |
| Año | 2007 |
| Volumen | 37 |
| Páginas | 115-145 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2007-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | New Perspectives on Turkey (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0896-6346 • E-ISSN: 1305-3299 |
| Editorial | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0896634600004751 |
| OpenAlex | W2205002431 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 2 |
| Referencias citadas | 17 |
How do farmers explain their engagement with commodity production and the market? This article describes the universe of cotton production and exchange in a Turkish village. Building on the scholarship concerning the anthropology of markets, I offer an account of the power relations concerning exchange in the countryside whereby a cluster of agents interact in multiple ways. Describing the microcosm of cotton production and exchange as it is perceived by farmers in the largest cotton-producing village of the Söke Plain in western Turkey, the essay documents how farmers mobilize resources, interact with agricultural workers, find credit, and finally sell their product. Farmers see the market and their fields as interconnected geographies of struggle between various actors. In contrast to the cotton field where they perceive themselves as active and formative agents in the rural political economic universe, cotton growers understand the market as a location of encounter dominated by traders and controlled by various mercantile tools that weaken their agency. The market is neither only a place where the price is set, nor merely a location of commodity exchange. It is a power field where farmers encounter the “production” of price as relatively passive agents of trade
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| Obras citantes distintas | 2 |
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| Citas por año | 0,13 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2010 - 2016 (7) |
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 2 |