Global displacements : the making of uneven development in the Caribbean /

"Challenging the main ways we debate globalization, this book reveals how uneven geographies of capitalist development shape--and are shaped by--the aspirations and everyday struggles of people in the global South"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Werner, Marion (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons, 2016.
Series:Antipode book series.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:"Challenging the main ways we debate globalization, this book reveals how uneven geographies of capitalist development shape--and are shaped by--the aspirations and everyday struggles of people in the global South"--
Item Description:Machine generated contents note: List of Abbreviations List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Power and difference in global production 2. Two stories of Caribbean development: Garments-as-globalization and garments-as-regional entrepreneurialism 3. From manufactura to mentefactura? Gender and industrial restructuring in the Dominican Republic 4. Embodied negotiations: Geographies of work after trade zones 5. Reworking coloniality through the Haitian-Dominican Border 6. Haiti, the global factory and the politics of reconstruction 7. Unsettling dominant crisis narratives of the Caribbean 8. Conclusion Bibliography Index.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 215 pages).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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