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El Paso: Local Frontiers at a Global Crossroads (Globalization and Community, Band 13) - Softcover

Ortiz-Gonzalez, Victor M.

 
9780816640775: El Paso: Local Frontiers at a Global Crossroads (Globalization and Community, Band 13)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0816640777 ISBN 13: 9780816640775
Verlag: University of Minnesota Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

A grounded and instructive analysis of the ways globalization affects a border city

Every marker of social difference can be easily interpreted in the fashionable language of "borderlands"-and if so, as Victor M. Ortiz-Gonzalez reveals, the practical reality of the border region is often grossly misrepresented and its people woefully served. He argues that amid the tantalizing abstractions generated by the sweeping reconfigurations of globalization, people in cities like El Paso and Ciudad JuÁrez, on the U.S.-Mexican border, are actually living the gritty realities of a new world order.

With descriptions of grassroots initiatives to confront the challenges and opportunities that NAFTA represents for the city, El Paso challenges us to acknowledge and address the conceptual and sociopolitical tasks of a world in which abstract representations and non-local interests override concrete situations. Ortiz-Gonzalez also provides an in-depth analysis of groups such as La Mujer Obrera, Unite El Paso, and the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and their attempts to give local residents and workers more autonomy and power.

Balancing ethnographic detail with precise theoretical insights, El Paso offers a compelling case study and a stirring call to understand both the conceptual challenge and the social urgency of the effects of globalization in local settings.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Victor M. Ortiz-Gonzalez is director of the Mexican and Caribbean Studies Program at Northeastern Illinois University.

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Verlag
University of Minnesota Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0816640777
ISBN 13 
9780816640775
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
216
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

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Breda
4831 GR
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