Circulation, Blockage, Burden: Inventory and the Shared Rhythms of Nigerian Industry and Asian American Diasporas

Falaye, Adebanjo Joseph (2025) Circulation, Blockage, Burden: Inventory and the Shared Rhythms of Nigerian Industry and Asian American Diasporas. JOURNAL OF ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES, 28 (2). pp. 208-220. ISSN 1096-8598

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Abstract

This article examines inventory management as both a financial practice and a cultural-economic system that shapes survival strategies under racialized capitalism. Drawing on Nigerian manufacturing data (2013–2022), East Asian industrial histories, and Asian American immigrant business practices, we argue that inventory functions as a metaphorical language of circulation, blockage, and burden. In contexts of infrastructural volatility and racial exclusion, inventory rhythms reveal how communities adapt to precarity through improvisational resilience. By placing Nigerian industrial firms alongside Asian American diasporic economies, this study contributes to Asian American Studies, Africapitalism, and cultural political economy, offering inventory as a transnational analytic for understanding inequality and survival.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Asian diasporic economies; inventory management; decent work; resilience; Nigerian manufacturing
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HG Finance
Depositing User:	Dr Adebanjo Joseph Falaye
Date Deposited:	16 Feb 2026 09:19
Last Modified:	16 Feb 2026 09:19
URI:	https://eprints.lmu.edu.ng/id/eprint/6008

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