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Inclusion and Exclusion in the Global Arena

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ISBN-10: 0415952425

ISBN-13: 9780415952422

Edition: 2006

Authors: Max Kirsch

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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 and sometimes misleading ways of presenting the results of globalizing processes. The present…    
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Book details

List price: $56.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 6/23/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 334
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

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
World Systems Theory Revisited
Globalization and the Domestic Group
References
Notes
Theoretical and Empirical Elements in the Study of Globalization
Place in a Global and Digital Economy
The 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
Do Cellular Phones Dream of Civil War? The Mystification of Production and the Consequences of Technology Fetishism in the Eastern Congo
Introduction: Cities of Bits versus Cities in Bits: Coltan and the Digital Divide
Global Accounting
The Political and Cultural Economy of Coltan
Cultural Economies of War
The Cultural Dimensions of Coltan
Conclusion
References
Notes
Development Theory, Social Cohesion, and the New Indigenism
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
Endogenous Development with Women As Leaders in the New Revolution
Autonomous Development As an Alternative to Neoliberalism
Plan Puebla Panama and the Invasion of Oaxaca/Lacandon Jungles
Where Do We Go From Here?
Concluding Remarks
References
Notes
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
Environmentalism, Global Community, and the New Indigenism
Environmentalism and Globalization
Scientific Legitimacy and Transnational Empathy
Cultural Critique and Moral Identity
Tensions in Eco-Community
Against Monoculturalism
References
Notes
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
Identity, Social Planning, and Political Power
Incorporation and Identity in the Making of the Modern World
Questioning Mestizaje: The Social Mobilization of Afrodescendent Women in Latin America
Development of Racial and Gender Consciousness
Promoting the Welfare and Social Mobility of the Afrodescendent Population
Pressuring the State to Redress Inequities
References
Notes
The Politics of Exclusion: Place and the Legislation of the Environment in the Florida Everglades
A Brief History of the Everglades
Getting There
Levels of Integration
Global Forces
National Influences
Locality and Sugar
The Implications of Everglades Restoration
Politics and Stratagems
Conclusion
References
Notes
Political Struggles in Legal Arenas: Some African Instances
Introduction
Burkina Faso
A Kenyan's Career from the 1980s to the Present
International Tribunals and Africa
Universal Jurisdiction: The Theory
Conclusions
References
Notes
Dangerous and Endangered Youth: Social Structures and Determinants of Violence
Prologue: The Violence of Everyday Life
Brazil: Death Squads and Democratization
South Africa: Youth Violence, Popular Justice, and Human Rights
White Justice: The Amy Biehl Trial
Who Counts?
Popular Justice and the Comrades
The Problem of the Incident
Discipline and Punish
Reconciliation-Letting Go
Postscript
References
Contributors
Index