Challenges to the Global Trading System: Adjustment to Globalization in the Asia-pacific Region

by LA Croix, Sumner J.; Petri, Peter A.

• ISBN13: 9780203441862
• ISBN10: 0203441869
• Copyright: 2007-03-20
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

In this book, the participants of the thirtieth Pacific Trade and Development Conference debate whether global negotiations have ended once and for all, or are suffering temporarily from globalization fatigue'.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. iii
List of Contributors	p. iv
Young women 'on the margins: representation, research and politics
'The stigma that goes with living here': Social-spatial vulnerability in poor neighbourhoods
Female youth homelessness in urban Canada: Space, representation and the contemporary female subject
Inventing adulthoods: A biographical approach to understanding young lives
Cross-generational conversations - talking about school and family
'You cannot just sit there and just accept what they say': Ethnic minority Indian teenage schoolgirls in contemporary postcolonial Malaysia
Social class, femininity and school sport
Policy hysteria in action: Teenage parents at secondary school in Australia
The lived experience of Australian government mutual obligations policies: creating shadow and preferred policy subjects
The relational dimension of 'effective schooling' for marginalized young women
"At school I am just like everyone else": teenage pregnancy, schooling and educational outcomes
Assembling selves: 'choice' and the classed and gendered schooling experiences of 'marginalized' young women
Generations of hope - questions about justice and the everyday as mothers and daughters look to a better life
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