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El Paso: Local Frontiers At A Global Crossroads
Victor M. Ortiz-Gonzalez
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Description for El Paso: Local Frontiers At A Global Crossroads
Paperback. Editor(s): Ortiz-Gonzalez, Victor M. Series: Globalization & Community Series. Num Pages: 296 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: JFFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 228 x 12. Weight in Grams: 292.
A grounded and instructive analysis of the ways globalization affects a border city
Every marker of social difference can be easily interpreted in the fashionable language of “borderlands”—and if so, as Victor M. Ortiz-Gonzalez reveals, the practical reality of the border region is often grossly misrepresented and its people woefully served. He argues that amid the tantalizing abstractions generated by the sweeping reconfigurations of globalization, people in cities like El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, on the U.S.–Mexican border, are actually living the gritty realities of a new world order.
With descriptions of grassroots initiatives to confront the challenges and opportunities that NAFTA ... Read more Balancing ethnographic detail with precise theoretical insights, El Paso offers a compelling case study and a stirring call to understand both the conceptual challenge and the social urgency of the effects of globalization in local settings. Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Globalization & Community Series
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816640775
SKU
V9780816640775
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About Victor M. Ortiz-Gonzalez
Victor M. Ortiz-Gonzalez is director of the Mexican and Caribbean Studies Program at Northeastern Illinois University.
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