Global Displacements E-Book

Marion Werner

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Serie: Antipode Book Series
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 466

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

Challenging the main ways we debate globalization, Global Displacements reveals how uneven geographies of capitalist development shape—and are shaped by—the aspirations and everyday struggles of people in the global South.

• Makes an original contribution to the study of globalization by bringing together critical development and feminist theoretical approaches
• Opens up new avenues for the analysis of global production as a long-term development strategy
• Contributes novel theoretical insights drawn from the everyday experiences of disinvestment and precarious work on people’s lives and their communities
• Represents the first analysis of increasing uneven development among countries in the Caribbean
• Calls for more rigorous studies of long accepted notions of the geographies of inequality and poverty in the global South

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

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

Dominican Counterpoint: Garments-as-Regional Entrepreneurialism

Conclusion: 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

Conclusion: Producing Workers on the Threshold of the Idled Factory

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

6 Haiti, the Global Factory and the Politics of Reconstruction

Introduction: Shaking Ground, Breaking Ground

Poverty Reduction: An Embedded Liberal Moment

Trade 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

Regulatory Uneven Development

Rethinking the Geographies of Uneven Development in the Caribbean and the Global South

Bibliography

Index

End User License Agreement

List of Tables

Chapter 02

Table 2.1 United States apparel imports by macro-region, 1987 and 1998

Table 2.2 Dominican trade zone employment, 1992–2004

Chapter 03

Table 3.1 Regional employment by sex and type of firm, FTZ garment sector

List of Illustrations

Chapter 01

Figure 1.1 Map of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, northern region

Chapter 03

Figure 3.1 Number of FTZ garment workers and factories, 2002–2012.

Figure 3.2 The Dominican Republic as a dual economy.

Chapter 05

Figure 5.1 Haitians exiting the CODEVI trade zone. The siting of the zone on the river’s oxbow privatizes a section of the border, allowing the administration to control Haitians’ access to the zone through a privately built and guarded bridge.

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Antipode Book Series

Series Editors: Vinay Gidwani, University of Minnesota, USA and Sharad Chari, CISA at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Like its parent journal, the Antipode Book Series reflects distinctive new developments in radical geography. It publishes books in a variety of formats – from reference books to works of broad explication to titles that develop and extend the scholarly research base – but the commitment is always the same: to contribute to the praxis of a new and more just society.

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Global Displacements

The Making of Uneven Development in the Caribbean

Marion Werner

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Werner, Marion.    Global displacements : the making of uneven development in the Caribbean / Marion Werner.        pages    cm. – (Antipode book series)    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    ISBN 978-1-118-94199-7 (hbk.) – ISBN 978-1-118-94198-0 (pbk.)    1.  Clothing trade–Caribbean Area.    2.  Caribbean Area–Economic conditions–Regional disparities.    3.  Globalization–Caribbean Area.    I.  Title.    HD9940.C272 W47 2015    338.9729–dc23

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Cover image: Food vendors outside a garment factory, Santiago trade zone, Dominican Republic© Marion Werner, with Andy Lu

Series Editors’ Preface

The Antipode Book Series explores radical geography “antipodally,” in opposition, from various margins, limits, or borderlands.

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Vinay GidwaniUniversity of Minnesota, USA

Sharad ChariCISA at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

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List of Abbreviations

ADIH

Association des Industries d’Haïti (Haitian Industry Association)

APEDI

Asociación para el desarollo, Inc. (Association for Development, Inc.)

CARICOM

Caribbean Community

CBERA

Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act

CBI

Caribbean Basin Initiative

CBTPA

Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act

CD

Convergence Démocratique (Democratic Convergence)

CMT

Cut-make-trim

CNZFE

Consejo nacional de zonas francas de exportación (National Trade Zone Council)

CODEVI

Compagnie de Développement Industriel (Industrial Development Company)