Places and Politics in an Age of Globalization (Paperback)

This ambitious work provides a unique statement on the question of place-based activism and its relationship to powerful forces of international capital. Arguing that specific places around the world are sites for the defense and enhancement of daily life in the context of rapidly expanding global technologies and investment options, the contributors reach for a vision of social development that supports sustainable, humane cultures. Bringing together the local and the global, this work provides the first sustained linkage of ethnic groups in diaspora to macrocosmic processes of world capital that inevitably reach down to mediate even the most local experiences. The essays, ranging in their discussion of place from Los Angeles and New York to New Zealand and Indonesia, offer both reasoned argument and authoritiative information on how local experience interacts with larger processes of global capital and the diasporic phenomenon. The book 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.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2001
First published:	February 2001
Authors:	Roxann Prazniak • Arif Dirlik
Contributors:	John Brown Childs • Arturo Escobar • Jonathan Friedman • Wendy Harcourt • Peter Kwong • Russell C. Leong • James H Mittleman • Elizabeth Rata
Dimensions:	220 x 147 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	352
ISBN-13:	978-0-7425-0039-6
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Globalization Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > General Promotions
LSN:	0-7425-0039-X
Barcode:	9780742500396

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