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This book gathers the work of leading scholars from several
disciplines on fragile regions, especially those regions seeking to
preserve, strengthen or create processes to restore or reestablish
security and effective social and economic management. It tackles
the multifarious issues that shape and affect fragile regions,
drawing upon a wide range of intellectual and methodological
approaches, including such fields as area studies, natural resource
science, biology, environmental and resource economics and
management, and political economy. The volume brings together the
perspectives of a diverse group of contributors from Australia,
China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, and the United
States. Managing Fragile Regions: Method and Application addresses
a variety of factors - natural, political, administrative,
legislative, economic, social, and cultural - and examines how they
exert influences on the operational mechanisms of fragile regions,
especially in the contexts of peace and security, economic
development, and environmental management. The volume's nine
chapters cover a wide range of examples of fragile regions and
their challenges. It will be of interest and utility to
practitioners and policy-makers engaged in disaster management and
post-disaster reconstruction. Students, researchers, and other
professionals involved in resource management, regional science,
and environmental science will also find it valuable reading.
This book gathers the work of leading scholars from several
disciplines on fragile regions, especially those regions seeking to
preserve, strengthen or create processes to restore or reestablish
security and effective social and economic management. It tackles
the multifarious issues that shape and affect fragile regions,
drawing upon a wide range of intellectual and methodological
approaches, including such fields as area studies, natural resource
science, biology, environmental and resource economics and
management, and political economy. The volume brings together the
perspectives of a diverse group of contributors from Australia,
China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, and the United
States. "Managing Fragile Regions: Method and Application"
addresses a variety of factors - natural, political,
administrative, legislative, economic, social, and cultural - and
examines how they exert influences on the operational mechanisms of
fragile regions, especially in the contexts of peace and security,
economic development, and environmental management. The volume's
nine chapters cover a wide range of examples of fragile regions and
their challenges. It will be of interest and utility to
practitioners and policy-makers engaged in disaster management and
post-disaster reconstruction. Students, researchers, and other
professionals involved in resource management, regional science,
and environmental science will also find it valuable reading.
"High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy" is an ethnography
of globalization positioned at the intersection between political
economy and cultural studies. Carla Freeman's fieldwork in Barbados
grounds the processes of transnational capitalism--production,
consumption, and the crafting of modern identities--in the lives of
Afro-Caribbean women working in a new high-tech industry called
"informatics." It places gender at the center of transnational
analysis, and local Caribbean culture and history at the center of
global studies.
Freeman examines the expansion of the global assembly line into
the realm of computer-based work, and focuses specifically on the
incorporation of young Barbadian women into these high-tech
informatics jobs. As such, Caribbean women are seen as integral not
simply to the workings of globalization but as helping to shape its
very form. Through the enactment of "professionalism" in both
appearances and labor practices, and by insisting that motherhood
and work go hand in hand, they re-define the companies' profile of
"ideal" workers and create their own "pink-collar" identities.
Through new modes of dress and imagemaking, the informatics workers
seek to distinguish themselves from factory workers, and to achieve
these new modes of consumption, they engage in a wide array of
extra income earning activities. Freeman argues that for the new
Barbadian pink-collar workers, the globalization of production
cannot be viewed apart from the globalization of consumption. In
doing so, she shows the connections between formal and informal
economies, and challenges long-standing oppositions between first
world consumers and third world producers, as well as white-collar
and blue-collar labor.
Written in a style that allows the voices of the pink-collar
workers to demonstrate the simultaneous burdens and pleasures of
their work, "High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy" will
appeal to scholars and students in a wide range of disciplines,
including anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, women's
studies, political economy, and Caribbean studies, as well as labor
and postcolonial studies.
"Entrepreneurial Selves" is an ethnography of neoliberalism.
Bridging political economy and affect studies, Carla Freeman turns
a spotlight on the entrepreneur, a figure saluted across the globe
as the very embodiment of neoliberalism. Steeped in more than a
decade of ethnography on the emergent entrepreneurial middle class
of Barbados, she finds dramatic reworkings of selfhood, intimacy,
labor, and life amid the rumbling effects of political-economic
restructuring. She shows us that the deja vu of neoliberalism, the
global hailing of entrepreneurial flexibility and its concomitant
project of self-making, can only be grasped through the thickness
of cultural specificity where its costs and pleasures are unevenly
felt. Freeman theorizes postcolonial neoliberalism by reimagining
the Caribbean cultural model of 'reputation-respectability.' This
remarkable book will allow readers to see how the material social
practices formerly associated with resistance to capitalism
(reputation) are being mobilized in ways that sustain neoliberal
precepts and, in so doing, re-map class, race, and gender through a
new emotional economy.
Surging middle-class aspirations and anxieties throughout the world
have recently compelled anthropologists to pay serious attention to
middle classes and middle-class spaces, sentiments, lifestyles,
labours, and civic engagements. Middle classness has become a
powerful category for self-identification, as political and
corporate leaders increasingly hail "the middle classes" as the
ideal subject-citizenry. Ethnographically rich and culturally
particular, the essays in this volume elucidate middle-class
experience and discourse and in so doing add critical nuance to
theories of class itself.
Sara and Sam Moore raised two beautiful children, Andrew and
Angela, inspite of being the head of the mob underworld. Now the
family is legit and has diversified into other businesses. Andrew
and Angela have taken over the business to give Mom and Dad a
chance to retire. But still memories are forever and grudges eat
away until one day their whole world crashes down around them.
Sam's sudden and tragic death has put Sara into a deep and
depressive grieving period. This hit on the family might be just
the cure to get her back into life again. Andrew and Angela have
run the family for sometime and now must go encourage Sara to take
back the helm. But Sara must teach her children how to stay alive.
How to fight to win. And most important, how to keep their
perspective while doing so.
Sara Bentley a young P.I. just widowed and on her own has to find
the culprit that took her husbands life. She meets Sam Moore a
bodyguard that comes into her life and changes the way she thinks
about love and happiness. Through the twists and turns she has a
difficult time seperating the good guys from the bad. Sara runs
into an old childhood friend who helps turn her life around and
sends her on an adventure that will change her life forever. You
will laugh and love along with Sara and Sam while trying to capture
the murderers of her family. Meeting very interesting charactors
from the twenty-four-hour state of Nevada.
Sara, the mob boss of Las Vegas, has turned her company into a
legitimate corporation, so why is someone trying to bring her down.
Sara and Sam Moore must look into their past and take a close look
at the present to find the person responsible for the bombing of
her Country Club and later the death of her friend. For nine years
the Moore family has lived in peace. Who could do such a thing? No
one gets away with trying to harm her family and now she must
gather her troops and go to war one more time to save their future
and their childrens future. There are enough twists and turns to
keep you entertained to the very end and wondering who will come
out alive.
"Entrepreneurial Selves" is an ethnography of neoliberalism.
Bridging political economy and affect studies, Carla Freeman turns
a spotlight on the entrepreneur, a figure saluted across the globe
as the very embodiment of neoliberalism. Steeped in more than a
decade of ethnography on the emergent entrepreneurial middle class
of Barbados, she finds dramatic reworkings of selfhood, intimacy,
labor, and life amid the rumbling effects of political-economic
restructuring. She shows us that the deja vu of neoliberalism, the
global hailing of entrepreneurial flexibility and its concomitant
project of self-making, can only be grasped through the thickness
of cultural specificity where its costs and pleasures are unevenly
felt. Freeman theorizes postcolonial neoliberalism by reimagining
the Caribbean cultural model of 'reputation-respectability.' This
remarkable book will allow readers to see how the material social
practices formerly associated with resistance to capitalism
(reputation) are being mobilized in ways that sustain neoliberal
precepts and, in so doing, re-map class, race, and gender through a
new emotional economy.
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