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Global Displacements: The Making of Uneven Development in the Caribbean
Marion Werner
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Description for Global Displacements: The Making of Uneven Development in the Caribbean
Paperback. Challenging the main ways we debate globalization, Global Displacements reveals how uneven geographies of capitalist development shape and are shaped by the aspirations and everyday struggles of people in the global South. Series: Antipode Book Series. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJD; 1KJH; GTF; JFFS; RGCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 10. Weight in Grams: 318.
Challenging the main ways we debate globalization, Global Displacements reveals how uneven geographies of capitalist development shape—and are shaped by—the aspirations and everyday struggles of people in the global South.
Challenging the main ways we debate globalization, Global Displacements reveals how uneven geographies of capitalist development shape—and are shaped by—the aspirations and everyday struggles of people in the global South.
- Makes an original contribution to the study of globalization by bringing together critical development and feminist theoretical approaches
- Opens up new avenues for the analysis of global production as a long-term development strategy
- Contributes novel theoretical insights drawn from the everyday experiences of disinvestment and precarious work on people’s lives and their communities
- Represents the first analysis of increasing uneven development among countries in the Caribbean
- Calls for more rigorous studies ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Series
Antipode Book Series
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781118941980
SKU
V9781118941980
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99-50
About Marion Werner
Marion Werner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. Her research lies at the intersection of critical development studies, feminist theory, and political economy with a focus on Latin America and the Caribbean.
Reviews for Global Displacements: The Making of Uneven Development in the Caribbean
At a time when empirical work is increasingly done as fast research or sidelined altogether, it is a pleasure to see what good monographs are capable of achieving Werner brilliantly demonstrates how the global factory works as a set of discourses and spatial imaginaries in addition to the mechanisms of capitalist accumulation Global Displacements offers provocative insights enabling the reader ... Read more