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Global Heartland
Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives, and Local Placemaking
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Artikel-Nr:
9780253019349
Veröffentl:
2016
Erscheinungsdatum:
07.01.2016
Seiten:
308
Autor:
Faranak Miraftab
Gewicht:
544 g
Format:
226x152x18 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Faranak Miraftab
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.
IntroductionPart I. Beardstown: A Place in the World1. Welcome to Porkopolis2. It All Changed OvernightPart II. Displaced Labor3. "Michoacán's Largest Export is People"4. "Winning the Lotto in Togo"5. Detroit: "The First Third World City of the U.S."Part III. Outsourced Lives6. Global Restructuring of Social ReproductionPart IV. We Wanted Workers, We Got People7. We Wanted Workers8. We Got PeopleConclusion: The Global in my BackyardAppendix 1: Population and Labor TablesAppendix 2: Schedule and Profile of IntervieweesNotesReferencesIndex