The Embedded Market: Place, Space, Land and the Self

Baker, Claire

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Claire Baker²

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This chapter provides an overview of the theoretical basis of economic sociology to situate this book at the intersection of political economy, the politics of space, and issues of place and identity that take particular import in a farming context. This theory demonstrates that capitalism, as the dominant mode of economic organisation, involves significant social change because economic systems are socially and culturally constructed and embedded. Following Polanyi, the state is always involved in the construction of the market and it is this relation that shapes outcomes. This locates the book as a response to calls for research into the actual processes of change and highlights the key understandings of interpretive economic sociology as a way of understanding the relationship between macro- and micro-contexts.

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Baker, C. (2021). The Embedded Market: Place, Space, Land and the Self. In: A Sociology of Place in Australia. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6240-6_2

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