
The Globalizers
Development Workers in Action
Jeffrey T. Jackson(Author)
Johns Hopkins University Press
Published on 27. October 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
392 pages
978-0-8018-8758-1 (ISBN)
Description
In The Globalizers, author Jeffrey T. Jackson studies globalization and development aid in Honduras. While many scholars focus on the transnational corporation, Jackson believes that the international development profession may be even more important for globalization because it is often the development professionals who lay the groundwork for transnationals to establish themselves in developing nations. By drawing upon specific examples of development aid in Honduras, by such organizations as the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, Jackson avoids the general, abstract discussion often associated with globalization studies.
Reviews / Votes
An admirable study of the development machinery in Honduras... A wonderful and compelling guide through the world of development. This work should get students, scholars, and the general public to seriously rethink it as anything but charitable, temporary, or minimal in its import. American Journal of Sociology A detailed overview of how development works in a specific context, it could be well utilized in graduate courses as well as advanced undergraduate courses in globalization and development... A good read in a literary sense, holding the reader's attention by carefully revealing detail after detail to unveil the hidden layers and the inner workings of economic development and political globalization. Contemporary Sociology A rigorous ethnography of the practice of the global actors based in Honduras... There is now an enormous literature that questions the ideological stratagems of the globalization industry as propelled by the claims of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund... Jackson goes deeper than these accounts... What he illuminates is the mechanism by which this democratic powerlessness is produced, one in which consent rather than coercion is the dominant lever. NACLA Report on the Americas This book definitely should go on your list of globalization readings! -- Tanya Golash-Boza Social Forces 2007More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore, MD
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
15 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 10 s/w Zeichnungen
10 Line drawings, black and white; 15 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8018-8758-1 (9780801887581)
DOI
10.56021/9780801881237
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11/2005
Johns Hopkins University Press
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Person
Jeffrey T. Jackson is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Mississippi.
Content
List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The Globalizers in Honduras
Part I: Who Are the Globalizers?
1. The Institutions
2. The People
3. The Expats
4. The Locals
Part II: The Globalizers in Action
5. Global Governance
6. Building Dams
7. Fixing Dams
8. Making Maquiladoras
9. Legitimating Maquiladoras
10. Rebuilding after Hurricane Mitch
Conclusion: Maintaining Global Governance
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The Globalizers in Honduras
Part I: Who Are the Globalizers?
1. The Institutions
2. The People
3. The Expats
4. The Locals
Part II: The Globalizers in Action
5. Global Governance
6. Building Dams
7. Fixing Dams
8. Making Maquiladoras
9. Legitimating Maquiladoras
10. Rebuilding after Hurricane Mitch
Conclusion: Maintaining Global Governance
Notes
Bibliography
Index