Global Displacements : The Making of Uneven Development in the Caribbean.
Marion. Werner
Bok Engelsk 2015 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (222 pages)
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | Intro -- 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.
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| ISBN | 9781118941966
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