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When the Enron filed the biggest bankruptcy petition in the history
of the United States, if not the world, the immediate response by
most politicians and financiers was that this scandal was a
"failure of regulatory institutions" that can be corrected and may
possibly even be a purely North American problem. However, an
in-depth exploration of what happened, as undertaken in this
volume, reveals that the widespread corruptions at corporate level
have their roots in the transformations of socio-political
conditions in the wake of an extreme fetishization of the
neo-liberal market model.
Carlos Salinas's government drew praise from many academic
commentators and foreign governments for its boldness in embarking
on neoliberal economic reforms that tackled some of the shibboleths
of the Mexican revolutionary tradition and for its supposedly
astute political management of change. This book offers a more
critical understanding of the economic, social, and political
dimensions of Salinismo. Although Gledhill focuses on its impact on
the rural sector in the state of MichoacA!n, he shows that the
problems of the region affect the United States as well as Mexico
because reform is being implemented within the framework of a
longer-term process of transnationalization of class relations and
global capitalist restructuring. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork
and anthropological theory, the book takes a close look at the
responses of a regional society to economic change and the
political strategies of the Salinas regime. Surveying the local
impact of changing agricultural policies, ejido reform, and the
U.S. Immigration Reform and Control Act, Gledhill distinguishes the
positions of different social groups and highlights the larger
processes in which the entire region is now caught up. Examining
the linkages between rural Mexico and the agribusiness farms and
factories of California, he underlines the political and social
implications of these evolving relationships on both sides of the
border, focusing on questions of hegemony and the role of
transnational migrant communities. Only by examining the fractured
social worlds of contemporary capitalism and the nature of the
politics of exclusion, he concludes, can we assess the true social
costs of neoliberal reform.
Shows how the study of the micro-dynamics of power in everyday
life, coupled with sensitivity to interactions between local and
global processes, offers critical insights into such issues as
state terror and ethnic violence, the emancipatory potential of
social movements and the politics of rights, gender and culture.
In a post-colonial world, the contributions of anthropologists
living outside North America and Western Europe can no longer be
treated as marginal. World Anthropologies in Practice demonstrates
how global dialogues enable us to draw on local knowledge as well
as differences of perspective to help overcome anthropology's
eternal struggle against ethnocentrism and to strengthen the
subject's relevance to the contemporary world.Based on
contributions to the ASA-sponsored IUAES World Anthropology
Congress in Manchester, UK, this truly global book brings together
a wide range of international scholars who might otherwise not talk
to each other. Featuring articles from leading figures in the field
such as Yolanda Moses, Winnie Lem, Carmen Rial, Miriam Grossi, and
Cristina Amescua, the volume covers topics as diverse as the
mobility of Brazilian football players, toilets in South Africa,
trade unions in Nepal and South Africa, peace-building in southern
Thailand, museological approaches in China, the Great East Japan
earthquake and tsunami, immigration and race in the United States,
and many more. Edited by John Gledhill, the text offers a
much-needed insight into the way in which anthropology is
developing worldwide and makes a tremendous contribution to the
discussion of 'world anthropologies'. An important, timely work for
students and researchers.
In a post-colonial world, the contributions of anthropologists
living outside North America and Western Europe can no longer be
treated as marginal. World Anthropologies in Practice demonstrates
how global dialogues enable us to draw on local knowledge as well
as differences of perspective to help overcome anthropology's
eternal struggle against ethnocentrism and to strengthen the
subject's relevance to the contemporary world.Based on
contributions to the ASA-sponsored IUAES World Anthropology
Congress in Manchester, UK, this truly global book brings together
a wide range of international scholars who might otherwise not talk
to each other. Featuring articles from leading figures in the field
such as Yolanda Moses, Winnie Lem, Carmen Rial, Miriam Grossi, and
Cristina Amescua, the volume covers topics as diverse as the
mobility of Brazilian football players, toilets in South Africa,
trade unions in Nepal and South Africa, peace-building in southern
Thailand, museological approaches in China, the Great East Japan
earthquake and tsunami, immigration and race in the United States,
and many more. Edited by John Gledhill, the text offers a
much-needed insight into the way in which anthropology is
developing worldwide and makes a tremendous contribution to the
discussion of 'world anthropologies'. An important, timely work for
students and researchers.
Bringing together historically and ethnographically grounded
studies of the social and political life of Brazil and Mexico, this
collection of essays revitalizes resistance as an area of study.
Resistance studies boomed in the 1980s and then was subject to a
wave of critique in the 1990s. Covering the colonial period to the
present day, the case studies in this collection suggest that, even
if much of that critique was justified, resistance remains a useful
analytic rubric. The collection has three sections, each of which
is preceded by a short introduction. A section focused on religious
institutions and movements is bracketed by one featuring historical
studies from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries and
another gathering more contemporary, ethnographically-based
studies. Introducing the collection, the anthropologist John
Gledhill traces the debates about resistance studies. In the
conclusion, Alan Knight provides a historian's perspective on the
broader implications of the contributors' findings. Contributors.
Helga Baitenmann, Marcus J. M. de Carvalho, Guillermo de la Pena,
John Gledhill, Matthew Gutmann, Maria Gabriela Hita, Alan Knight,
Ilka Boaventura Leite, Jean Meyer, John Monteiro, Luis Nicolau
Pares, Patricia R. Pessar, Patience A. Schell, Robert Slenes, Juan
Pedro Viqueira, Margarita Zarate
Transnational Actors in War and Peace provides a comparative
examination of a range of transnational actors who have been key to
the conduct of war and peace promotion, and of how they interact
with states and each other. It explores the identities,
organization, strategies and influence of transnational actors
involved in contentious politics, armed conflict, and peacemaking.
While the study of transnational politics has been a rapidly
growing field, to date, the disparate actors have not been analyzed
alongside each other, making it difficult to develop a common
theoretical framework or determine their influence on international
security. This book brings together a diverse set of scholars
focused on a range of transnational actors, such as: foreign
fighters, terrorists, private military security companies,
religious groups, diasporas, NGOs, and women's peace groups. Malet
and Anderson provide the standard for future study of transnational
actors in this work intended for those interested in security
studies, international relations, conflict resolution, and global
governance.
When viewed from the perspective of those who suffer the
consequences of repressive approaches to public security, it is
often difficult to distinguish state agents from criminals. The
mistreatment by police and soldiers examined in this book reflects
a new kind of stigmatization. The New War on the Poor links the
experiences of labour migrants crossing Latin America's
international borders, indigenous Mexicans defending their
territories against capitalist mega-projects, drug wars and
paramilitary violence, Afro-Brazilians living on the urban
periphery of Salvador, and farmers and business people tired of
paying protection to criminal mafias. John Gledhill looks at how
and why governments are failing to provide security to
disadvantaged citizens while all too often painting them as a
menace to the rest of society simply for being poor.
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