Aims and objectives
The Community Market International Research Group conceives of markets as sites of flows and assemblages and has four objectives. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research in the cities in the UK, Netherlands, China and Australia the group explores: The conditions of emergence, stability and disappearance of market sites; Markets as sites of affective and embodied networks and connections; The technologies and economies of markets; The regulation of markets at the local, national and global levels.
Through in depth comparative studies of a number of markets, the group explores the potential of markets for social and affective connection, for place making , urban regeneration, economic innovation and environmental sustainability. Through an investigation of the provenance and flows of commodities sold in markets the group aims also to reveal the diversity of connections and networks across regional and national boundaries which are ‘congealed’ in the site of a market in a specific place. As such the the research group provides a lens to explore the by now well acknowledged complexity of local/global connections and interconnections in global cities across the world.
Through in depth comparative studies of a number of markets, the group explores the potential of markets for social and affective connection, for place making , urban regeneration, economic innovation and environmental sustainability. Through an investigation of the provenance and flows of commodities sold in markets the group aims also to reveal the diversity of connections and networks across regional and national boundaries which are ‘congealed’ in the site of a market in a specific place. As such the the research group provides a lens to explore the by now well acknowledged complexity of local/global connections and interconnections in global cities across the world.