Global Displacements : The Making of Uneven Development in the Dominican Republic and Haiti

Challenging the main ways we debate globalization, Global Displacementsreveals 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 approachesOpens up new avenues for the analysis of global production as a long-term development strategyContributes novel theoretical insights drawn from the everyday experiences of disinvestment and precarious work on people's lives and their communitiesRepresents the first analysis of increasing uneven development among countries in the CaribbeanCalls for more rigorous studies of long accepted notions of the geographies of inequality and poverty in the global South Marion Werneris 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.

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Year of publication:	2016
Authors:	Werner, Marion
Publisher:	s.l. : Wiley
Subject:	Dominikanische Republik \| Dominican Republic \| Haiti \| Entwicklung \| Economic development \| Bekleidungsindustrie \| Clothing industry

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (222 p)
Series:	Antipode Book Series Antipode Book Ser.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record ""Title Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Series Editors' Preface""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""List of Figures and Tables""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""1 Introduction""; ""Sundays in Los Almácigos, Dominican Republic""; ""Situating Global Displacements""; ""From a Comparative to a Relational Geography of Haiti and the Dominican Republic""; ""Theorizing Uneven Development: Global Production Networks, Coloniality, and the Production of Place""; ""Global Displacements as Multi-Sited Fieldwork""; ""Chapter Outline""; ""2 Two Stories of Caribbean Development""; ""Introduction"" """Taiwanizing" the Caribbean? Garments-as-Globalization""""Dominican Counterpoint: Garments-as-Regional Entrepreneurialism""; ""Conclusion: Moving beyond "Global Forces" versus "Regional Paths" Approaches""; ""3 From Manufactura to Mentefactura?""; ""Introduction: Beyond "Cheap Labor" in the Dominican Republic?""; ""Cibaeño Firm Restructuring and New Production Geographies""; ""Gender and the Reworking of Sewing and Skill""; ""Gendered Economic Dualisms: Enabling Export Restructuring as Development""; ""Recuperating the Gender Politics of Uneven Development""; ""4 Embodied Negotiations"" ""The Campo and the Making of an Immigrant City""""Workers' Strategies as Embodied Negotiations""; ""Conclusion: Producing Workers on the Threshold of the Idled Factory""; ""5 Reworking Coloniality through the Haitian-Dominican Border""; ""Introduction""; ""Remaking the Border: The Haitian Embargo of 1991-1994 and the Growth of Ouanaminthe""; ""Reordering Trade Zones between the Dominican Republic and Haiti""; ""CODEVI: Haitian State Collapse and Unionization""; ""Disposability at the Border: Managing the Trade Zone""; ""Conclusion: Reworking the Geographies of Coloniality"" ""6 Haiti, the Global Factory and the Politics of Reconstruction""""Introduction: Shaking Ground, Breaking Ground""; ""Poverty Reduction: An Embedded Liberal Moment""; ""Trade Zones as Containment: The Imperative of Economic Security""; ""From Poverty Reduction to Poverty Redistribution? Decentralization after the Earthquake""; ""Making Space for Development Alternatives""; ""7 Unsettling Dominant Crisis Narratives of the Caribbean""; ""The Everyday and the Event of Crisis in "A Small Place"""; ""Forging Livelihoods Out of Crisis in the Dominican Republic"" ""Caribbean Crisis as Historical Debt""""Towards an Alternative Ethics of Global Production and Consumption""; ""8 Conclusion""; ""Labor In and Out of Global Production Networks""; ""Regulatory Uneven Development""; ""Rethinking the Geographies of Uneven Development in the Caribbean and the Global South""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""End User License Agreement""
ISBN:	978-1-118-94199-7 ; 978-1-118-94196-6 ; 978-1-118-94199-7
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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