Places and Politics in an Age of Globalization,9780742500389

Places and Politics in an Age of Globalization

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ISBN13: 9780742500389
ISBN10: 0742500381
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-02-14
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

This unique work opens a field of inquiry around place-based critiques of global capital as it focuses on the interactions between local issues and international financial flows. Framing their discussions around the concept of place-based imagination, the contributors examine such cases as indigenous movements against land degradation, ethnic pluralism and union organizing, ethnic diversity and the challenges of state and capital to cultural identity, and women's networks through non-governmental organizations. This ambitious study will be an invaluable resource and launching point for scholars and students in ethnic and identity studies and will interest all readers exploring the production of place and identification.

Table of Contents

Prelude: Beware of the M Word ix
Russell C. Leong
Acknowledgments xiii
Part I. Introduction: Theoretical Issues
Introduction: Cultural Identity and the Politics of Place
3(12)
Arif Dirlik
Roxann Prazniak
Place-Based Imagination: Globalism and the Politics of Place
15(38)
Arif Dirlik
Indigenous Struggles and the Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
53(20)
Jonathan Friedman
Part II. Transnationalism and Ethnic Identities: Labor, Capital, and the Problem of Community
Asians on the Rim: Transnational Capital and Local Community in the Making of Contemporary Asian America
73(28)
Arif Dirlik
Chinese Illegals Are American Labor
101(10)
Peter Kwong
Organizing Labor among Difference: The Impact of Race/Ethnicity, Citizenship, and Gender on Working-Class Solidarity
111(28)
Margaret M. Zamudio
Natives and Nations: Identity Formation in Postcolonial Melanesia
139(28)
Geoffrey M. White
The Indigenization of Ethnicity
167(26)
Elizabeth Rata
Part III. Contra Developmentalism: The Political Ecology of Indigenism
Place, Economy, and Culture in a Postdevelopment Era
193(26)
Arturo Escobar
Globalization and Environmental Resistance Politics
219(28)
James H. Mittelman
Political Organizing in the Land of the Great Spirit, Tunkashila: A Conversation with Joann Tall
247(20)
Roxann Prazniak
Beyond Unity: Transcommunal Roots of Coordination in the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Model of Cooperation and Diversity
267(32)
John Brown Childs
Part IV. Concluding Essay
Rethinking Difference and Equality: Women and the Politics of Place
299(24)
Wendy Harcourt
Index 323(4)
About the Contributors 327

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