Going nowhere fast : mobile inequality in the age of translocality /

Rising levels of global inequality and migrant flows are both critical global challenges. Set within the Southeast Asian nation of Cambodia, 'Going Nowhere Fast' sets out to answer a question of global importance: how does inequality persist in our increasingly mobile world? Inequality is...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lawreniuk, Sabina (Author), Parsons, Laurie (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Series:Critical frontiers of theory, research, and policy in international development studies.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Mobile Inequality in the Age of Translocality
  • 2. Fallacy of Macroeconomic Indicators
  • 3. Mobile Inequality: Embedding Economic Flows in Mobile Social Structures
  • 4. Sowing and Sewing Inequality in the Home: the Everyclay Experience of Translocality
  • 5. Invisible Grabbing Hand: Translocal Ecologies of Economic Development
  • 6. Village of the Damned? Narrative, Structure and the Coproduction of Translocal Mobility
  • 7. We Move Therefore We Are: Cambodia's Translocal Politics of Nationalism
  • 8. Framing a Total Social Fact.