ISBN:
9780415952415
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (347 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Inclusion and Exclusion in the Global Arena
DDC:
305.5/68089
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This collection of essays addresses the inclusion and exclusion of peoples, populations and regions in an era of global economic and social integration. Although many publications have discussed the way in which globalization has changed the nature of boundaries, space and the movement of peoples, there is a wide gap in a literature that rarely addresses the reaction of local communities and inclusion for some stakeholders in decision making while excluding others, particularly in regard to global integration of industry, the legislation of planning, and trade. This gap has often led to narrow
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Inclusion and Exclusion In the Global Arena; Globalization and Its Theorists; World Systems Theory Revisited; Development Theory, Social Cohesion, and the New Indigenism; Identity, Social Planning, and Political Power; Conclusion: Structural Violence and Structural Power; References; Section I World Systems Theory Revisited; Chapter 1 Globalization and the Domestic Group; References; Notes; Chapter 2 Theoretical and Empirical Elements in the Study of Globalization
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Place in a Global and Digital EconomyThe Material Practices of Globalization; New Geographies of Centrality and of Marginality; A New Transnational Politics of Place?; Sited Materialities with Global Span; A Networked Subeconomy; The Intersection between Actual and Digital Space; What Does Contextuality Mean in This Setting?; Denationalized State Agendas and Privatized Norm Making; Conclusion; References; Notes; Chapter 3 Do Cellular Phones Dream of Civil War? The Mystification of Production and the Consequences of Technology Fetishism in the Eastern Congo
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Introduction: Cities of Bits versus Cities in Bits: Coltan and the Digital DivideGlobal Accounting; The Political and Cultural Economy of Coltan; Cultural Economies of War; The Cultural Dimensions of Coltan; Conclusion; References; Notes; Section II Development Theory, Social Cohesion, and the New Indigenism; Chapter 4 Development Strategies, the Exclusion of Women, and Indigenous Alternatives; Development for Whom?; Failure of Trickle-down Effect and the Critique of Development in the 1970s and 1980s; The Debt Crisis and Women's Roles in Survival Economics
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Endogenous Development with Women As Leaders in the New RevolutionAutonomous Development As an Alternative To Neoliberalism; Plan Puebla Panama and the Invasion of Oaxaca/ Lacandón Jungles; Where Do We Go From Here?; Concluding Remarks; References; Notes; Chapter 5 Indigenism and Its Discontents; Indigenous Defined; The Terrain of the Indigenous; The Khoisan; On Kalahari Revisionism; The Khoisan Story; Indigenism Today; Conclusion: Indigenes and Anthros; References; Chapter 6 Environmentalism, Global Community, and the New Indigenism; Environmentalism and Globalization
Description / Table of Contents:
Scientific Legitimacy and Transnational EmpathyCultural Critique and Moral Identity; Tensions In Eco-Community; Against Monoculturalism; References; Notes; Chapter 7 Disorderly Development: Globalization and the Idea of Culture in the Kalahari; Globalization and Culture; Indigenous Identities in Southern Africa; Taming the ""Wild"" Bushmen; The Omaheke San Today; Disorder, Corruption, and Class Consciousness; Moving Targets; Ethnic Entrepreneurs and Ethnotourism; Conclusion; References; Notes; Section III Identity, Social Planning, and Political Power
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 8 Incorporation and Identity in the Making of the Modern World
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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