... of the country’s sand in hopes of calling attention to the global social and environmental hazards of sand mining. Brathwaite Kamau sand erosion global race gender constructs Guyanese women King Tiffany Lethabo pointer broom analytic political economy of erasure tidalectics beaches Blackness extractive...

... schools, globalization, Americanization, and foreign affairs. The legal profession has also undergone considerable change. Whereas the equivalent of the American law firm—large, bureaucratized, and regimented—barely existed in Israel during the 1950s and 1960s, the 1990s saw such firms...

... after the fall of communism, Russian elites found themselves searching for a better position in the world division of labor. The chapter also argues that the transformation of the USSR facilitated the intensification of neoliberal globalization. Soviet Union Marxism Neoliberalism Ideology hegemonic...

... chooses to cooperate with U.S. and U.S.-allied forces in the Middle East, especially by aligning his country’s interests with neoliberal globalization. Noting that desert romances are set in fictionalized countries that nevertheless mimic many of the characteristics of the Persian Gulf, the chapter argues...

... of the most negative consequences of globalization and empire, the case studies in this book also reveal clear distinctions in the actual character of religious activism in the two settings. Indeed, it is apparent that religious activism frequently serves as a bridge between the two. Moreover, the use...

...AsianAmerican beauty videos on YouTube uniquely intersect with both domestic racial and economic schemas and the vicissitudes of the global beauty market, making them a unique archive of the operations of global neoliberalism as it articulates through social media and raced...

... identification at work, processes that suggest new ways of thinking through both the role played by wealthy rancheros in Chicana/o literary history and the applicability of terms like “transnationalism” and “globalization” to the nineteenth century. Finding out processes of Mexican American racialization within...

...Politics in the Andes in the post–Cold War era are not at the mercy of “inter-national” dynamics but are mostly affected by global economic trends. While the United States and China have somewhat distinct approaches—in part determined by their own positions in the global economy—they both deepen...

... to visualize “location” such that it serves as a narrative and stylistic pivot upon which the relationships among individual bodies, transnational spaces, and broad global systems are constructed through economies of violence. Building on Jameson’s 1992 analysis of the “geopolitical aesthetic,” this chapter...

... to the homeland, we can view the ways global change is localized. Through a cultural geography and ethnographic lens, the chapter involves participant observation and interviews with locals and former exiles. Scholars who write about Ho Chi Minh City today tend to focalize contemporary industrialization...

...This chapter presents three models of globalization: the “Corner Deli” model that illustrates a completely unstructured form of globalization in which the “local” coexists with the “regional” and “global”; the “Wienerwald” model which offers a regional perspective focused on a specific region...

...The Internet has been integral to the globalization of a range of goods and production, from intellectual property and scientific research to political discourse and cultural symbols. Yet the ease with which it allows information to flow at a global level presents enormous regulatory challenges...

...—to create relatedness with their birth families; this relatedness is made possible by globalization. This concluding chapter ties together the themes laid out throughout the book and broadens the scope of the study beyond the South Korean side of transnational adoption as it relates to kinship and media...

...Drawing on the works of George Orwell, Bruce Robbins asks how cosmopolitanism might become a force for a more democratic redistribution of global resources. Orwell himself had this goal in mind but saw it as requiring considerable sacrifice on the part of the more prosperous. Examining Orwell’s BBC...

... representation in Turkey's political economy. It begins with an overview of Islamic economics and the politics of development in the Turkish context, along with the effects of globalization on the Turkish economy. It then considers the GM's collection of investment capital via a rationalized system of religious...

...The acceleration of economic globalization and the rapid global flows of people, culture, and information have intensified the importance of developing transnational understandings of contemporary issues. Transnational feminist perspectives have provided a unique outlook on women's lives and have...

... methods and alternative social constructions of family. Shaped by the forces of colonialism and globalization, adoption was transformed over the twentieth century from an institution of labor similar to apprenticeship, or a form of inheritance involving the appointment of a legal heir, by the uneven...

... discusses labor within the human rights and international trade frameworks and goes on to assess the concerns of less developed countries about conditioning trade access on worker treatment. It then explores the degree to which globalization can erode labor standards and reward inconsistent values, along...

...Although commonplace today, dual citizenship was once considered an abnormality, or even an abomination. Yet by the last decades of the twentieth century, perhaps fueled by the civil rights movement in America as well as worldwide liberation movements, a global emphasis on human rights helped chip...

... the story of an environmental crisis on a global scale. When the great recession struck both countries, the vulnerability of both systems was revealed. Even as politicians seeking to stabilize markets slashed at existing safety nets, neuroscientific research was documenting the lifelong effects of adverse...