Places and Politics in an Age of Globalization

Prazniak, Roxann

ISBN 10: 074250039X / ISBN 13: 9780742500396

Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001

About this Item

This work provides a statement on the question of place-based activism and its relationship to powerful forces of international capital. The essays offer arguments and information on how local experience interacts with the world at large. The places disccused include Los Angeles and New York. Num Pages: 352 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: JFFS; JFS; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 31. Weight in Grams: 496. . 2001. paperback. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Places and Politics in an Age of Globalization
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 074250039X
• ISBN 13: 9780742500396
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

Arturo Escobar is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. His main interests are political ecology, ontological design, and the anthropology of globalization, social movements, and technoscience. He is the author of Designs for the Pluriverse (2018), and is engaged in transition design projects in Colombia.

Wendy Harcourt is Professor of Gender, Diversity and Sustainable Development at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Peter Kwong, director of the Asian American Studies Program at Hunter College, is a Chinatown activist and the author of Chinatown, New York: Labor and Politics, 1930-1950.