Werner Global Displacements

The Making of Uneven Development in the Caribbean
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-118-94197-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Antipode Book Series

Challenging the main ways we debate globalization, GlobalDisplacements reveals how uneven geographies of capitalistdevelopment shape--and are shaped by--the aspirations andeveryday struggles of people in the global South.
* Makes an original contribution to the study of globalization bybringing together critical development and feminist theoreticalapproaches
* Opens up new avenues for the analysis of global production as along-term development strategy
* Contributes novel theoretical insights drawn from the everydayexperiences of disinvestment and precarious work on people'slives and their communities
* Represents the first analysis of increasing uneven developmentamong countries in the Caribbean
* Calls for more rigorous studies of long accepted notions of thegeographies of inequality and poverty in the global South

Autoren/Hrsg.

Werner, Marion

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.