Race and Rurality in the Global Economy /
Essays that examine globalization's effects with an emphasis on the interplay of race and rurality as it occurs across diverse geographies and peoples. Issues of migration, environment, rurality, and the visceral "politics of place" and "space" have occupied center stage in...
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Contents; List of Tables and Illustrations; Foreword; References; Introduction; Interrogating Race and Rurality in the Time-Spaces of Globalization and Development; Notes; References; 1 Global Economies and Historical Change: Rethinking Social Struggles and Transformations in Africa's Zones of Rurality (1500-1800); Introduction; A Materialist Approach to African History; Re-Centering Africa in Globalizing Economies; The Late Imperial Age: The Askiyate; The Post-Imperial Age: Agents and Structures; Military Aristocracies and Ulama: Fandugu and Moridugu
- Merchants and Ulama: Markadugu and MoriduguSufi-Scholars and Zawiya; The Revolutionary Countryside; Counterrevolution: The Zawiya as Fandugu; Conclusion; References; 2 Making Development through Rural Initiative "Unthinkable": Tanzania in the Time of Ujamaa; Introduction; Defining a Narrative of State-Led Development; What Was Missing from the State-Centered Narrative of Ujamaa Development; A Past Ignored Creates Frustration; Conclusion; References; 3 Racialization and the Historical Production of Contemporary Land Rights Inequalities in Upland Northern Thailand; Introduction
- Land Rights Disparity in the UplandsThe Racialization of Ethno-Spatial Difference; Mapping the "Foreignness" of the Hill Tribes; Behind the Map: Historical Racialization of Spatial Difference in Thailand; Precolonial Southeast Asia; The Creation of the Modern Thai Geo-Body; Forging a Thai-Land; Racialization and Contemporary Inequalities in Land Ownership; Repositioning Upland People and Forests vis-à-vis the Thai Nation; Affixing Identity to Bodies; Discussion and Conclusion; Notes; References; 4 Making Things for Living, and Living a Life with Things; A Ndyuka Territory; Bauxite Landscape
- Working for BakaaLiving with Bakaa; Two Women; Things for Living; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 5 Race and Class Marginalization in the Globalization of the Rice Industry; The Historical Footsteps of Rice; The Changing Political Economy of Regulation and Competition in Agriculture; The Politics of Rice in the Era of Liberalization, Marginalization, and Displacement; The Impact of US Policy on the Rice Industry; Structural Adjustment and Honduras; DR-CAFTA and Its Impact; The Case of Guyana; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References
- 6 At the Margins of Citizenship: Oil, Poverty, and Race in Esmeraldas, EcuadorFor the People, Revolution; Public Infrastructure; Income Supplements; The Margins of the State; The Revolution Is Here; 15 de Marzo; Tabete; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; 7 Racing the Reservation: Rethinking Resistance and Development in the Navajo Nation; Settler-Mapping and Counter-Mapping Indigenous Difference; Dinetah: Navajo Homeland; Carbon's Contradictions: Grandma Alice and the Everyday Life of Coal; Romanticism as a Form of Settler Racism: Reconsidering the Subject of Resistance