Global displacements
Subtitle: the making of uneven development in the Caribbean
By: Marion Werner
Series: Antipode book series; Antipode book series
Publisher: Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9781118941997; 9781118941980
Subjects: Clothing trade; Economic conditions; Globalization; Regional disparities
Description: "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"--
Notes: 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.