Global Power and Local Struggles in Developing Countries
Contemporary Perspectives On: Europe and the People without History, by Eric R. Wolf at 40
Published on 15. December 2022
Book
Hardback
300 pages
978-90-04-52548-1 (ISBN)
Description
The volume challenges dominant narratives of progress with a rich range of investigations of local struggles from the Global south which are based on original ethnographic research. The chapters take a point of departure in ideas and concepts developed by the pioneering anthropologist Eric R. Wolf in 'Europe and the People Without History', and emphasize the relevance and usefulness of applying Wolf to contemporary contexts. As such, the collection contributes to knowledge of dynamic relationships between local agency in the Global south, and broader political and economic processes that make 'people without history.' This shows global power as both excluding local groups at the same time as conditioning local struggles and the forms that social organization takes.
Contributors are: Paul Stacey, Joshua Steckley, Nixon Boumba, Marylynn Steckley, Ismael Garcia Colon, Inge-Merete Hougaard, Gustavo S. Azenha, Ioannis Kyriakakis, Raquel Rodrigues Machaqueiro, Tirza van Bruggen, and Masami Tsujita.
Contributors are: Paul Stacey, Joshua Steckley, Nixon Boumba, Marylynn Steckley, Ismael Garcia Colon, Inge-Merete Hougaard, Gustavo S. Azenha, Ioannis Kyriakakis, Raquel Rodrigues Machaqueiro, Tirza van Bruggen, and Masami Tsujita.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
594 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-52548-1 (9789004525481)
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Person
Paul Stacey, Ph.D., (2012), Roskilde University, is an Associate Professor in International Development Studies at Roskilde University. His Ph.D. investigated social exclusion in Ghana, and post-doctoral research focused on one of West Africa's largest slums, resulting in State of Slum: Precarity and Informal Governance at the Margins in Accra (Zed books 2019). His ongoing research covers pastoralists' struggles over land in Kenya; the illegal extraction of gold and democratization in Ghana; and political challenges to sustainable wastewater systems in urban Ghana.
Content
Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
1?Global Power and Local Struggles in Developing Countries: An Introduction
??Paul? ?Stacey?????
2?Commodifying the Countermovement: How Foreign Funding Turns Haitian Social Movements into Commodities
??Joshua? ?Steckley??, ??Nixon? ?Boumba?? and ??Marylynn? ?Steckley?????
3?A Brief History of Workers on the Move: Power in Puerto Rican Farm Labour Migration
??Ismael? ?Garc?i?a Col?o?n?????
4?Masking the Past, Legitimizing the Present: State-Making and Precariatization in the Agro-Industrial Landscape, Colombia
??Inge-Merete? ?Hougaard?????
5?A Political Ecology of Fetishism in Brazil's 'Discovery Coast' Crisis, Socio-environmental Hybridization, and Historical Amnesia on the Frontiers of Global Liberalism??
??Gustavo S.? ?Azenha?????
6??Europe and the People without Class: The Example of Ghana
??Ioannis? ?Kyriakakis?????
7?Impossible Histories, Power, and Exclusion in the Gold Coast and Ghana 1930-2020
??Paul? ?Stacey?????
8?Persistent Connections and Exclusions in Mozambique: From Colonial Anxieties to Contemporary Discourses about the Environment
??Raquel Rodrigues? ?Machaqueiro?????
9?Chinese Indonesian Identity at Work: Political Exclusion and Division of Labour in Indonesia
??Tirza van? ?Bruggen?????
10??Global Competition and Local Advantages: The Agency of Samoan Factory Youth in an Untold History of the Automotive Supply Chain
??Masami? ?Tsujita?????
Index
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
1?Global Power and Local Struggles in Developing Countries: An Introduction
??Paul? ?Stacey?????
2?Commodifying the Countermovement: How Foreign Funding Turns Haitian Social Movements into Commodities
??Joshua? ?Steckley??, ??Nixon? ?Boumba?? and ??Marylynn? ?Steckley?????
3?A Brief History of Workers on the Move: Power in Puerto Rican Farm Labour Migration
??Ismael? ?Garc?i?a Col?o?n?????
4?Masking the Past, Legitimizing the Present: State-Making and Precariatization in the Agro-Industrial Landscape, Colombia
??Inge-Merete? ?Hougaard?????
5?A Political Ecology of Fetishism in Brazil's 'Discovery Coast' Crisis, Socio-environmental Hybridization, and Historical Amnesia on the Frontiers of Global Liberalism??
??Gustavo S.? ?Azenha?????
6??Europe and the People without Class: The Example of Ghana
??Ioannis? ?Kyriakakis?????
7?Impossible Histories, Power, and Exclusion in the Gold Coast and Ghana 1930-2020
??Paul? ?Stacey?????
8?Persistent Connections and Exclusions in Mozambique: From Colonial Anxieties to Contemporary Discourses about the Environment
??Raquel Rodrigues? ?Machaqueiro?????
9?Chinese Indonesian Identity at Work: Political Exclusion and Division of Labour in Indonesia
??Tirza van? ?Bruggen?????
10??Global Competition and Local Advantages: The Agency of Samoan Factory Youth in an Untold History of the Automotive Supply Chain
??Masami? ?Tsujita?????
Index