Global Power and Local Struggles in Developing Countries

Contemporary Perspectives On: Europe and the People without History, by Eric R. Wolf at 40

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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The volume challenges dominant narratives of progress with a rich range of investigations of local struggles from the Global south which are based on original ethnographic research. The chapters take a point of departure in ideas and concepts developed by the pioneering anthropologist Eric R. Wolf in ‘Europe and the People Without History’, and emphasize the relevance and usefulness of applying Wolf to contemporary contexts. As such, the collection contributes to knowledge of dynamic relationships between local agency in the Global south, and broader political and economic processes that make ‘people without history.’ This shows global power as both excluding local groups at the same time as conditioning local struggles and the forms that social organization takes. Contributors are: Paul Stacey, Joshua Steckley, Nixon Boumba, Marylynn Steckley, Ismael García Colón, Inge-Merete Hougaard, Gustavo S. Azenha, Ioannis Kyriakakis, Raquel Rodrigues Machaqueiro, Tirza van Bruggen, and Masami Tsujita.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-12-15
Mått155 x 235 x 25 mm
Vikt623 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in the Social History of the Global South
Antal sidor288
FörlagBrill
MedarbetareStacey,Paul
ISBN9789004525481

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Paul Stacey, Ph.D., (2012), Roskilde University, is an Associate Professor in International Development Studies at Roskilde University. His Ph.D. investigated social exclusion in Ghana, and post-doctoral research focused on one of West Africa’s largest slums, resulting in State of Slum: Precarity and Informal Governance at the Margins in Accra (Zed books 2019). His ongoing research covers pastoralists’ struggles over land in Kenya; the illegal extraction of gold and democratization in Ghana; and political challenges to sustainable wastewater systems in urban Ghana.

Preface and AcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesNotes on Contributors1 Global Power and Local Struggles in Developing Countries: An IntroductionPaul Stacey2 Commodifying the Countermovement: How Foreign Funding Turns Haitian Social Movements into CommoditiesJoshua Steckley, Nixon Boumba and Marylynn Steckley3 A Brief History of Workers on the Move: Power in Puerto Rican Farm Labour MigrationIsmael García Colón4 Masking the Past, Legitimizing the Present: State-Making and Precariatization in the Agro-Industrial Landscape, ColombiaInge-Merete Hougaard5 A Political Ecology of Fetishism in Brazil’s ‘Discovery Coast’ Crisis, Socio-environmental Hybridization, and Historical Amnesia on the Frontiers of Global LiberalismGustavo S. Azenha6 Europe and the People without Class: The Example of GhanaIoannis Kyriakakis7 Impossible Histories, Power, and Exclusion in the Gold Coast and Ghana 1930–2020Paul Stacey8 Persistent Connections and Exclusions in Mozambique: From Colonial Anxieties to Contemporary Discourses about the EnvironmentRaquel Rodrigues Machaqueiro9 Chinese Indonesian Identity at Work: Political Exclusion and Division of Labour in IndonesiaTirza van Bruggen10 Global Competition and Local Advantages: The Agency of Samoan Factory Youth in an Untold History of the Automotive Supply ChainMasami TsujitaIndex