Global Heartland: Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives, and Local Placemaking (Framing the Global) - Softcover

Buch 5 von 22: Framing the Global

Miraftab, Faranak

 
9780253019349: Global Heartland: Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives, and Local Placemaking (Framing the Global)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0253019346 ISBN 13: 9780253019349
Verlag: Indiana University Press (IPS), 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Global Heartland is the account of diverse, dispossessed, and displaced people brought together in a former sundown town in Illinois. Recruited to work in the local meat-processing plant, African Americans, Mexicans, and West Africans re-create the town in unexpected ways. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in the US, Mexico, and Togo, Faranak Miraftab shows how this workforce is produced for the global labor market; how the displaced workers' transnational lives help them stay in these jobs; and how they negotiate their relationships with each other across the lines of ethnicity, race, language, and nationality as they make a new home. Beardstown is not an exception but an example of local-global connections that make for local development. Focusing on a locality in a non-metropolitan region, this work contributes to urban scholarship on globalization by offering a fresh perspective on politics and materialities of placemaking.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Faranak Miraftab is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is author of Women's Empowerment: Participation in Shelter Strategies at the Community Level in Urban Informal Settlements and editor(with David Wilson and Ken Salo) of Cities and Inequalities in a Global and Neoliberal World, (with Neema Kudva) Cities of the Global South Reader, and (with Victoria A. Beard and Chris Silver) Planning and Decentralization: Contested Spaces for Public Action in the Global South.

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Verlag
Indiana University Press (IPS)
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0253019346
ISBN 13 
9780253019349
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
312
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