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Book SynopsisThe volume challenges dominant narratives of progress with a rich range of investigations of local struggles from the Global south which are based on original ethnographic research. The chapters take a point of departure in ideas and concepts developed by the pioneering anthropologist Eric R. Wolf in ‘Europe and the People Without History’, and emphasize the relevance and usefulness of applying Wolf to contemporary contexts. As such, the collection contributes to knowledge of dynamic relationships between local agency in the Global south, and broader political and economic processes that make ‘people without history.’ This shows global power as both excluding local groups at the same time as conditioning local struggles and the forms that social organization takes. Contributors are: Paul Stacey, Joshua Steckley, Nixon Boumba, Marylynn Steckley, Ismael García Colón, Inge-Merete Hougaard, Gustavo S. Azenha, Ioannis Kyriakakis, Raquel Rodrigues Machaqueiro, Tirza van Bruggen, and Masami Tsujita.
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Global Power and Local Struggles in Developing Countries: An Introduction Paul Stacey 2 Commodifying the Countermovement: How Foreign Funding Turns Haitian Social Movements into Commodities Joshua Steckley, Nixon Boumba and Marylynn Steckley 3 A Brief History of Workers on the Move: Power in Puerto Rican Farm Labour Migration Ismael García Colón 4 Masking the Past, Legitimizing the Present: State-Making and Precariatization in the Agro-Industrial Landscape, Colombia Inge-Merete Hougaard 5 A Political Ecology of Fetishism in Brazil’s ‘Discovery Coast’ Crisis, Socio-environmental Hybridization, and Historical Amnesia on the Frontiers of Global Liberalism Gustavo S. Azenha 6 Europe and the People without Class: The Example of Ghana Ioannis Kyriakakis 7 Impossible Histories, Power, and Exclusion in the Gold Coast and Ghana 1930–2020 Paul Stacey 8 Persistent Connections and Exclusions in Mozambique: From Colonial Anxieties to Contemporary Discourses about the Environment Raquel Rodrigues Machaqueiro 9 Chinese Indonesian Identity at Work: Political Exclusion and Division of Labour in Indonesia Tirza van Bruggen 10 Global Competition and Local Advantages: The Agency of Samoan Factory Youth in an Untold History of the Automotive Supply Chain Masami Tsujita Index
