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Global Displacements - Marion Werner

Global Displacements

The Making of Uneven Development in the Caribbean

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Buch | Hardcover
240 Seiten
2015
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-118-94199-7 (ISBN)
CHF 99,95 inkl. MwSt
Challenging the main ways we debate globalization, Global Displacements reveals how uneven geographies of capitalist development shape and are shaped by the aspirations and everyday struggles of people in the global South.
Challenging the main ways we debate globalization, Global Displacements reveals how uneven geographies of capitalist development shape—and are shaped by—the aspirations and everyday struggles of people in the global South.



Makes an original contribution to the study of globalization by bringing together critical development and feminist theoretical approaches
Opens up new avenues for the analysis of global production as a long-term development strategy
Contributes novel theoretical insights drawn from the everyday experiences of disinvestment and precarious work on people’s lives and their communities
Represents the first analysis of increasing uneven development among countries in the Caribbean
Calls for more rigorous studies of long accepted notions of the geographies of inequality and poverty in the global South

Marion Werner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. Her research lies at the intersection of critical development studies, feminist theory, and political economy with a focus on Latin America and the Caribbean.

Series Editors’ Preface vi

List of Abbreviations vii

List of Figures and Tables ix

Acknowledgements x

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 From 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

Bibliography 187

Index 206

Reihe/Serie Antipode Book Series
Verlagsort Hoboken
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 236 mm
Gewicht 426 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 1-118-94199-3 / 1118941993
ISBN-13 978-1-118-94199-7 / 9781118941997
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