Werner, Marion. creator text bibliography Electronic books. nju 2015 monographic eng

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1 online resource. "Challenging the main ways we debate globalization, this book reveals how uneven geographies of capitalist development shape--and are shaped by--the aspirations and everyday struggles of people in the global South"-- Title Page ; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; List of Abbreviations; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction: Power and Difference in Global Production; Sundays in Los Almácigos, Dominican Republic; Situating Global Displacements; From a Comparative to a Relational Geography of Haiti and the Dominican Republic; Theorizing Uneven Development: Global Production Networks, Coloniality, and the Production of Place; Global Displacements as Multi-Sited Fieldwork ; Chapter Outline; Notes Chapter 2 Two Stories of Caribbean Development: Garments-as-Globalization and Garments-as-Regional Entrepreneurialism Introduction; "Taiwanizing" the Caribbean? Garments-as-Globalization ; Dominican Counterpoint: Garments-as-Regional Entrepreneurialism ; Conclusion: Moving beyond "Global Forces" versus "Regional Paths" Approaches; Notes; Chapter 3 From Manufactura to Mentefactura?: Gender and Industrial Restructuring in the Dominican Republic ; Introduction: Beyond "Cheap Labor" in the Dominican Republic?; Cibaeño Firm Restructuring and New Production Geographies Gender and the Reworking of Sewing and SkillGendered Economic Dualisms: Enabling Export Restructuring as Development; Recuperating the Gender Politics of Uneven Development; Notes; Chapter 4 Embodied Negotiations: Geographies of Work after Trade Zones ; The Campo and the Making of an Immigrant City; Workers' Strategies as Embodied Negotiations; Masculinity, modernity, and holding on to "whiteness" in the city; Multiple strategies of men in the campo; "There's no work for women there": Reluctant return; Stretching family ties across uneven geographies Conclusion: Producing Workers on the Threshold of the Idled FactoryNotes; Chapter 5 Reworking Coloniality through the Haitian-Dominican Border ; Introduction ; Remaking the Border: The Haitian Embargo of 1991-1994 and the Growth of Ouanaminthe; Reordering Trade Zones between the Dominican Republic and Haiti; CODEVI: Haitian State Collapse and Unionization; Disposability at the Border: Managing the Trade Zone ; Conclusion: Reworking the Geographies of Coloniality; Notes; Chapter 6 Haiti, the Global Factory and the Politics of Reconstruction ; Introduction: Shaking Ground, Breaking Ground Poverty Reduction: An Embedded Liberal MomentTrade Zones as Containment: The Imperative of Economic Security; From Poverty Reduction to Poverty Redistribution? Decentralization after the Earthquake; Making Space for Development Alternatives; Notes; Chapter 7 Unsettling Dominant Crisis Narratives of the Caribbean ; The Everyday and the Event of Crisis in "A Small Place"; Forging Livelihoods Out of Crisis in the Dominican Republic; Caribbean Crisis as Historical Debt; Towards an Alternative Ethics of Global Production and Consumption; Notes; Chapter 8 Conclusion Marion Werner. Machine generated contents note: List of Abbreviations List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Power and difference in global production 2. Two stories of Caribbean development: Garments-as-globalization and garments-as-regional entrepreneurialism 3. From manufactura to mentefactura? Gender and industrial restructuring in the Dominican Republic 4. Embodied negotiations: Geographies of work after trade zones 5. Reworking coloniality through the Haitian-Dominican Border 6. Haiti, the global factory and the politics of reconstruction 7. Unsettling dominant crisis narratives of the Caribbean 8. Conclusion Bibliography Index. Includes bibliographical references and index. cc----- Clothing trade Caribbean Area Globalization Caribbean Area SCIENCE Earth Sciences Geography Clothing trade Economic history Regional disparities Globalization Caribbean Area Economic conditions Regional disparities Caribbean Area HD9940 .C272 338.9729 SCI030000 Werner, Marion. Hoboken : Wiley-Blackwell, 2015 (DLC) 2015022476 9781118941973 1118941977 9781118941966 1118941969 1118941993 9781118941997 9781118941980 1118941985 2015035117 B37BF7C3-B26E-49AD-B43F-05858F4B1089 OverDrive, Inc. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118941959 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118941959 DLC 150907 20171024094920.0 ocn920925840 eng