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

• Autore: Werner Marion
• Pubblicazione: Chichester, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (222 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.9729
• Soggetto topico: Clothing trade - Caribbean Area; Globalization - Caribbean Area
• Soggetto geografico: Caribbean Area Economic conditions Regional disparities
• Classificazione: SCI030000
• 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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Global displacements
• ISBN: 1-118-94196-9; 1-118-94197-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808566703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Antipode book series.