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Record Nr.

UNINA9910271039503321

Autore

Werner Marion

Titolo

Global displacements : the making of uneven development in the Caribbean / / Marion Werner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-118-94196-9

1-118-94197-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Collana

Antipode Book Series

Classificazione

SCI030000

Disciplina

338.9729

Soggetti

Clothing trade - Caribbean Area

Globalization - Caribbean Area

Caribbean Area Economic conditions Regional disparities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note:  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 .

Sommario/riassunto

"Challenging the main ways we debate globalization, this book reveals how uneven geographies of capitalist development shape--and are shaped by--the aspirations and everyday struggles of people in the global South"--