Disabling globalization : places of power in post-apartheid South Africa
Combining detailed empirical research on transnational connections with theoretical argument, this study offers critical understandings of globalization and insights into post-apartheid South Africa. The book is based on research conducted between 1994 and 2001.
Print Book, English, ©2002
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©2002
xi, 358 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780520237551, 9780520237568, 0520237552, 0520237560
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Ch. 1. Re-Placing Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa
pt. I. Forging Places
Ch. 2. 'The Land of our Comfort': Regional Contours of Agrarian Transformation
Ch. 3. Losing Ground and Making Space: Dispossession and Township Formation
Ch. 4. Manufacturing Connections: Labor, Township, and Industrial Politics
pt. II. Transnational Trajectories
Ch. 5. Taiwanese Networks in Newcastle: The Production of Knitwear and of Difference
Ch. 6. The China Connection: Agrarian Questions in an Era of Globalization
pt. III. Post-Apartheid Possibilities
Ch. 7. Accumulating Tensions: Remaking the Local State
Ch. 8. Enabling Alternatives: Re-Envisioning the Future