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OverviewFarmers, Indigenous organisations, government and private-sector intermediaries from remote Northern Australia often negotiate with private finance capital to gain funds for agricultural development.The concept of financialisation is used to explore the drivers and effects of agrifood restructuring in the area, while assemblage theory is applied to position local actors as potential sites of power in negotiating connections between local spaces and global finance. This book demonstrates that while financialisation is a useful signifier of patterns of global change, it is assembled by a diverse range of often contradictory work. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Zannie LangfordPublisher: Berghahn Books Imprint: Berghahn Books ISBN: 9781805390947ISBN 10: 1805390945 Pages: 230 Publication Date: 13 October 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIllustrations Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Assembling Financialisation Chapter 1. Assembling Financialisation Chapter 2. A Brief History of Northern Development Chapter 3. The Investment Proposition Chapter 4. Making Land Valuable Chapter 5. The Moral Economies of Debt Chapter 6. How to Get an Investor Chapter 7. ‘Unlocking’ the Indigenous Estate Chapter 8. COVID-19 and Seven Years of ‘Developing Northern Australia Conclusion: Messy Assemblages References IndexReviews“Fills a gap in the literature by foregrounding the processes that underpin agrifood financialization trends, framing them as negotiated phenomena that are made and remade at the level of everyday life.” • Michael Carolan, Colorado State University “This is an excellent book. With careful scholarship and extensive on-the-ground field work, Langford explores the unfolding process of agricultural financialisation in Northern Australia in its complexity and messiness. The result is a theoretically sophisticated and nuanced account of how local actors respond to and mediate both the discursive and material dimensions of financialisation.” • André Magnan, University of Regina Fills a gap in the literature by foregrounding the processes that underpin agrifood financialization trends, framing them as negotiated phenomena that are made and remade at the level of everyday life. * Michael Carolan, Colorado State University This is an excellent book. With careful scholarship and extensive on-the-ground field work, Langford explores the unfolding process of agricultural financialisation in Northern Australia in its complexity and messiness. The result is a theoretically sophisticated and nuanced account of how local actors respond to and mediate both the discursive and material dimensions of financialisation. * Andre Magnan, University of Regina Author InformationZannie Langford is a Research Fellow at the Griffith University Asia Institute. Her current research explores technology driven changes in development financing in Indonesia and the Pacific. She has also undertaken a range of applied research projects focusing on land tenure, global value chains, smallholder agribusiness and rural development financing in Northern Australia, Indonesia and the Pacific. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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