| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations, 1 map |
| Contents |
Title Page; Table of Contents; Series Editors' Preface; List of Abbreviations; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 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; 2 Two Stories of Caribbean Development; Introduction; "Taiwanizing" the Caribbean? Garments-as-Globalization |
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Dominican Counterpoint: Garments-as-Regional EntrepreneurialismConclusion: Moving beyond "Global Forces" versus "Regional Paths" Approaches; 3 From Manufactura to Mentefactura?; Introduction: Beyond "Cheap Labor" in the Dominican Republic?; Cibaeño Firm Restructuring and New Production Geographies; Gender and the Reworking of Sewing and Skill; Gendered Economic Dualisms: Enabling Export Restructuring as Development; Recuperating the Gender Politics of Uneven Development; 4 Embodied Negotiations; The Campo and the Making of an Immigrant City; Workers' Strategies as Embodied Negotiations |
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Conclusion: Producing Workers on the Threshold of the Idled Factory5 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; 6 Haiti, the Global Factory and the Politics of Reconstruction; Introduction: Shaking Ground, Breaking Ground |
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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; 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; 8 Conclusion; Labor In and Out of Global Production Networks |
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Regulatory Uneven DevelopmentRethinking the Geographies of Uneven Development in the Caribbean and the Global South; Bibliography; Index; End User License Agreement |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Previously issued in print: 2015 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Globalization -- Dominican Republic
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Globalization -- Haiti
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Economic history
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Globalization
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| SUBJECT |
Dominican Republic -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85038977
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Haiti -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85058348
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| Subject |
Dominican Republic
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Haiti
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781118941966 |
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1118941969 |
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