Global Displacements
The Making of Uneven Development in the Caribbean
Published on 4. December 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
232 pages
978-1-118-94198-0 (ISBN)
Description
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
Reviews / Votes
'In this moving and audacious book, Marion Werner challenges us to reckon with the real costs of global capitalism. Her inspiring stories of human struggles in Caribbean garment factories expose the tremendous courage needed to fight the odds and create more just futures.' - Melissa W. Wright, Professor of Geography and Women's Studies, Pennsylvania State University, USA 'Werner's important new ethnography of garment work in Haiti and the Dominican Republic not only updates our knowledge of global apparel production for a new era of disinvestment and more "skilled" production, but develops a new analytical framework to show how a history of coloniality and its production of racial and gender difference remains central to global manufacturing.' - Jane Collins, Professor of Community & Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USAMore details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
295 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-118-94198-0 (9781118941980)
Schweitzer Classification
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Person
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.
Content
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