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

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Werner, Marion
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Hoboken : Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
• Θέματα: Clothing trade > Caribbean Area.; Globalization > Caribbean Area.; SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.; Clothing trade.; Economic history > Regional disparities.; Globalization.; Caribbean Area > Economic conditions > Regional disparities.; Caribbean Area.; Electronic books.
• Περιγραφή τεκμηρίου: 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.
• Φυσική περιγραφή: 1 online resource.
• Βιβλιογραφία: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9781118941973; 1118941977; 9781118941966; 1118941969; 1118941993; 9781118941997; 9781118941980; 1118941985
• DOI: 10.1002/9781118941959

"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"--