Globalizers Development Workers in Action

Name: Globalizers Development Workers in Action
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ISBN: 9780801887581

ISBN-10: 0801887585

ISBN-13: 9780801887581

Edition: 2005

Authors: Jeffrey T. Jackson

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Using Honduras as a case study, Jeffrey T. Jackson illuminates the processes by which wealthy western countries target countries in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East for political economic construction, or nation building. In the process, he draws a provocative connection between the efforts of international development workers and the emergence of global governance. Jackson examines the significant roles played by international development workers -- "the globalizers" -- operating in Honduras over the past thirty years, particularly in the troubled construction of the El Cajn hydroelectric dam, the creation of maquiladoras, and the multinational relief, recovery, and…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 9/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

Jeffrey T. Jackson is an assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of Mississippi. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Latin American Sociology.