Author(s): Roxann Prazniak (Author), Arif Dirlik (Author), John Brown Childs (Contributor), Arturo Escobar (Contributor), Jonathan Friedman (Contributor), Wendy Harcourt (Contributor), Peter Kwong (Contributor), Russell C. Leong (Contributor), James H. Mittleman (Contributor), Elizabeth Rata (Contributor), Geoffrey White (Contributor), Margaret M. Zamudio (Contributor)
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Publication Date: 14 Mar. 2001
Language: English
Print length: 352 pages
ISBN-10: 0742500381
ISBN-13: 9780742500389
Book Description
This ambitious work provides a unique statement on the question of place-based activism and its relationship to powerful forces of international capital. Arguing that specific places around the world are sites for the defense and enhancement of daily life in the context of rapidly expanding global technologies and investment options, the contributors reach for a vision of social development that supports sustainable, humane cultures. Bringing together the local and the global, this work provides the first sustained linkage of ethnic groups in diaspora to macrocosmic processes of world capital that inevitably reach down to mediate even the most local experiences. The essays, ranging in their discussion of place from Los Angeles and New York to New Zealand and Indonesia, offer both reasoned argument and authoritiative information on how local experience interacts with larger processes of global capital and the diasporic phenomenon. The book 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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
A valuable book….of theoretical interest to scholars in all areas of political science from American Politics to International Relations. It holds practical advice for activists, whether community based or members of international organizations. ― H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online
A genuinely original contribution that will open up a field of inquiry and thinking. Especially valuable is the attempt to relate ethnic and intra-ethnic studies in the United States to the larger processes of diasporic movements and metropolitan cultures, which has not been done before and is brilliantly articulated in the introductory essay. — Harry Harootunian, New York University
About the Author
Wendy Harcourt is Professor of Gender, Diversity and Sustainable Development at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands.
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