Papers by Marceline White
for their comments and suggestions. The opinions and errors in this paper are my own and not nece... more for their comments and suggestions. The opinions and errors in this paper are my own and not necessarily those of IFPRI or USAID.
Progress in Development Studies - Progr Dev Stud, 2001
ethnic violence as a response to the threat of globalization. Drawing from ethnographic literatur... more ethnic violence as a response to the threat of globalization. Drawing from ethnographic literature on Rwanda, Northern Ireland and India, he suggests that in some contexts, the instruments and practices of torture constitute an effort to remove uncertainties about the ethnic identity of a victim familiar to the perpetrator. Overall, the theoretical problematic globalization and identity, or fixity versus flux, does a very effective job in holding these substantive contributions together. Moreover, the contribution of the case studies to the theorization of globalization is at least as important. By way of criticism, I would like to have seen the editors undertake a little more theorizing in the introduction. They tend to frame identity as a ‘search for fixed orientation points’ (p. 3) as people struggle to interpret globalization. This framework fits well for the contributions by Meyer, Geschiere and Appadurai, for example. As a dialectic however, the idea seems to lay its emphasis upon one constitutive direction alone: globalization produces identity formations. Conversely, the editors might have theorized how notions of identity influence the shape people give to globalization as a conceptual device. That question was obviously embedded in the chapters by Kelly and Shami (perhaps less explicitly in that by Long and Villarreal), yet it was strangely muted in the ‘Introduction’ to a volume subtitled Dialectics of flow and closure. But a minor criticism such as this suggests that the assembly of essays is provocative. With a rich confluence of diverse empirical material with social theory, the writers in this volume have made a strong and timely anthology for those interested in globalization or identity studies.
This free trade agreement is being negotiated based on the assumption that models such as NAFTA (... more This free trade agreement is being negotiated based on the assumption that models such as NAFTA (the North America Free Trade Agreement) or the U.S./Chile bilateral agreement are positive examples of growth for the region. While statistics may show growth, social impacts on women, their families and their communities have, in many cases, been devastating. Sixty-two million people, or 14% of the 516 million Latin American and Caribbean people, live in extreme poverty and suffer from hunger according to the World Food Programme (WFP). The combined impacts of privatization, capital account liberalization and free trade have ultimately weakened domestically owned industry and national regulatory measures throughout Latin America. Irresponsible privatization policies that did not incorporate proper safeguards have resulted in recent statistics in Latin America that 40% of public services customers have fallen behind in their bills. Utility rates have increased in spite of the fact that p...
Gender & Development, 2004
Gender & Development, 2004
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