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Slipping Away: Banana Politics and Fair Trade in the Eastern Caribbean: Dislocations, cartea 4

Autor Mark Moberg
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 oct 2008
During the 1990s, the Eastern Caribbean was caught in a bitter trade dispute between the US and EU over the European banana market. When the World Trade Organization rejected preferential access for Caribbean growers in 1998 the effect on the region's rural communities was devastating.
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ISBN-13: 9781845451455
ISBN-10: 1845451457
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: BERGHAHN BOOKS INC
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Notă biografică

Mark Moberg is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Alabama. His research centers on the economic and political dimensions of rural development in Central America and the Caribbean. He has published extensively in cultural and applied anthropology and is the author or co-editor of three previous books: Citrus, Strategy and Class (1992), Myths of Ethnicity and Nation (1997), and Banana Wars (2003; edited with Steve Striffler).

Cuprins

List of Illustrations List of Tables, Figures and Maps Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Linking the Personal, the Local and the Global Chapter 2. An Island in History Chapter 3. Banananomics: Work and Identity Among Island Growers Chapter 4. St. Lucia in the Global Banana Trade Chapter 5. Banana Politics Chapter 6. Privatization and Fragmentation Chapter 7. Survivors Chapter 8. Desperate Times, Desperate Measures Chapter 9. Fair Trade in Discourse and Practice Chapter 10. Fair Trade and Conventional Farming in the Mabouya Valley Chapter 11. Conclusion: A New World or a New Kind of Dependence? References Cited

Recenzii

"[G]racefully written manuscript - a pleasure to read ... This is a fine example of how ethnographic and historical research might be used to advance our understanding of contemporary globalization." * Marc Edelman, CUNY, Graduate Center