{"product_id":"global-displacements-9781118941980","title":"Global Displacements","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChallenging the main ways we debate globalization, \u003ci\u003eGlobal Displacements\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how uneven geographies of capitalist development shapeand are shaped bythe aspirations and everyday struggles of people in the global South.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eMakes an original contribution to the study of globalization by bringing together critical development and feminist theoretical approaches\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOpens up new avenues for the analysis of global production as a long-term development strategy\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eContributes novel theoretical insights drawn from the everyday experiences of disinvestment and precarious work on people's lives and their communities\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eRepresents the first analysis of increasing uneven development among countries in the Caribbean\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCalls for more rigorous studies of long accepted notions of the geographies of inequality and poverty in the global South\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt 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 to look behind the veils of all-too-simplistic representations that promise economic development with the help of global factory and global value chain. - Christian Berndt, Economic Geography, Vol. 93 No. 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeries Editors’ Preface vi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviations vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Figures and Tables ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction: Power and Difference in Global Production 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Two Stories of Caribbean Development: Garments‐as‐ Globalization and Garments‐as‐Regional Entrepreneurialism 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 From Manufactura to Mentefactura? Gender and Industrial Restructuring in the Dominican Republic 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Embodied Negotiations: Geographies of Work after Trade Zones 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Reworking Coloniality through the Haitian–Dominican Border 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Haiti, the Global Factory and the Politics of Reconstruction 141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Unsettling Dominant Crisis Narratives of the Caribbean 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Conclusion 181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 206\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406951948631,"sku":"9781118941980","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781118941980.jpg?v=1730497669","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/global-displacements-9781118941980","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}