Places and Politics in an Age of Globalization

by Prazniak, Roxann; Dirlik, Arif; Childs, John Brown; Escobar, Arturo; Friedman, Jonathan; Harcourt, Wendy; Kwong, Peter; Leong, Russell C.; Mittleman, James H.; Rata, Elizabeth; White, Geoffrey; Zamudio, Margaret M.

• ISBN13: 9780742500396
• ISBN10: 074250039X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-07
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This unique work opens a field of inquiry around place-based critiques of global capital as it focuses on the interactions between local issues and international financial flows. Framing their discussions around the concept of place-based imagination, the contributors examine such cases as indigenous movements against land degradation, ethnic pluralism and union organizing, ethnic diversity and the challenges of state and capital to cultural identity, and women's networks through non-governmental organizations. This ambitious study 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.

Table of Contents

Prelude: Beware of the M Word	ix
Russell C. Leong
Acknowledgments	xiii
Part I. Introduction: Theoretical Issues
Introduction: Cultural Identity and the Politics of Place	3	(12)
Arif Dirlik
Roxann Prazniak
Place-Based Imagination: Globalism and the Politics of Place	15	(38)
Arif Dirlik
Indigenous Struggles and the Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie	53	(20)
Jonathan Friedman
Part II. Transnationalism and Ethnic Identities: Labor, Capital, and the Problem of Community
Asians on the Rim: Transnational Capital and Local Community in the Making of Contemporary Asian America	73	(28)
Arif Dirlik
Chinese Illegals Are American Labor	101	(10)
Peter Kwong
Organizing Labor among Difference: The Impact of Race/Ethnicity, Citizenship, and Gender on Working-Class Solidarity	111	(28)
Margaret M. Zamudio
Natives and Nations: Identity Formation in Postcolonial Melanesia	139	(28)
Geoffrey M. White
The Indigenization of Ethnicity	167	(26)
Elizabeth Rata
Part III. Contra Developmentalism: The Political Ecology of Indigenism
Place, Economy, and Culture in a Postdevelopment Era	193	(26)
Arturo Escobar
Globalization and Environmental Resistance Politics	219	(28)
James H. Mittelman
Political Organizing in the Land of the Great Spirit, Tunkashila: A Conversation with Joann Tall	247	(20)
Roxann Prazniak
Beyond Unity: Transcommunal Roots of Coordination in the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Model of Cooperation and Diversity	267	(32)
John Brown Childs
Part IV. Concluding Essay
Rethinking Difference and Equality: Women and the Politics of Place	299	(24)
Wendy Harcourt
Index	323	(4)
About the Contributors	327