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Book SynopsisIn doing so he makes a persuasive connection between nation building and global governance-raising important questions about whose nations are being built and why.
Trade ReviewAn admirable study of the development machinery in Honduras... A wonderful and compelling guide through the world of development. This work should get students, scholars, and the general public to seriously rethink it as anything but charitable, temporary, or minimal in its import. American Journal of Sociology A detailed overview of how development works in a specific context, it could be well utilized in graduate courses as well as advanced undergraduate courses in globalization and development... A good read in a literary sense, holding the reader's attention by carefully revealing detail after detail to unveil the hidden layers and the inner workings of economic development and political globalization. Contemporary Sociology A rigorous ethnography of the practice of the global actors based in Honduras... There is now an enormous literature that questions the ideological stratagems of the globalization industry as propelled by the claims of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund... Jackson goes deeper than these accounts... What he illuminates is the mechanism by which this democratic powerlessness is produced, one in which consent rather than coercion is the dominant lever. NACLA Report on the Americas This book definitely should go on your list of globalization readings! -- Tanya Golash-Boza Social Forces 2007
Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The Globalizers in Honduras
Part I: Who Are the Globalizers?
1. The Institutions
2. The People
3. The Expats
4. The Locals
Part II: The Globalizers in Action
5. Global Governance
6. Building Dams
7. Fixing Dams
8. Making Maquiladoras
9. Legitimating Maquiladoras
10. Rebuilding after Hurricane Mitch
Conclusion: Maintaining Global Governance
Notes
Bibliography
Index
