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Global displacements : the making of uneven development in the Caribbean / Marion Werner.
Lippincott Library HD9940.C272 W47 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Werner, Marion, author.
- Series:
- Antipode book series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clothing trade--Caribbean Area.
- Clothing trade.
- Globalization.
- Economic conditions.
- Regional disparities.
- Caribbean Area--Economic conditions--Regional disparities.
- Caribbean Area.
- Globalization--Caribbean Area.
- Economic history--Regional disparities.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 215 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken : Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.
- 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: Power and Difference in Global Production 1
- 2 Two Stories of Caribbean Development: Garments-as-Globalization and Garments-as-Regional Entrepreneurialism 28
- 3 Prom Manufactura to Mentefactura? Gender and Industrial Restructuring in the Dominican Republic 54
- 4 Embodied Negotiations: Geographies of Work after Trade Zones 85
- 5 Reworking Coloniality through the Haitian-Dominican Border 113
- 6 Haiti, the Global Factory and the Politics of Reconstruction 141
- 7 Unsettling Dominant Crisis Narratives of the Caribbean 163
- 8 Conclusion 181.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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 .
- Other Format:
- Online version: Werner, Marion. Global displacements
- ISBN:
- 9781118941997
- 1118941993
- 9781118941980
- 1118941985
- OCLC:
- 907160674
- Online:
- Cover image
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