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WhenThe Big OnesAbandon the Marketplace: Morals and Politics of Price in Equatorial Guinea

In: The Politics and Ethics of the Just Price

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  • Alba Valenciano-Mañé

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Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out among market sellers in Equatorial Guinea’s capital Malabo at the height of its oil-boom in 2010–2012, this paper explores how prices were negotiated and set. It describes how the marketplace constitutes an important institution in Guinean society, not only as a site for provisioning, but also as a space for fostering relationships, engaging in politics and seeking social justice. The case of Equatorial Guinea helps us to re-think the notion of the just price as it is established through contingent and negotiated relations between traders, their customers and powerful political actors, rather than being the outcome of supply and demand or the result of struggles over the production and reproduction of labour. The emphasis on the political dimension of the just price speaks to key debates in the moral economy literature.

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  • Alba Valenciano-Mañé, 2019. "WhenThe Big OnesAbandon the Marketplace: Morals and Politics of Price in Equatorial Guinea," Research in Economic Anthropology, in: The Politics and Ethics of the Just Price, volume 39, pages 49-70, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:reanzz:s0190-128120190000039003
    DOI: 10.1108/S0190-128120190000039003
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