Inclusion and Exclusion in the Global Arena

348 Pages·2006·4.71 MB·English

by  Max Kirsch

Inclusion and
Exclusion in the
Global Arena
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Inclusion and
Exclusion in the
Global Arena
EDitED by
M a x K i r s c h
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Inclusion and exclusion in the global arena / edited by Max Kirsch.
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ISBN 0-415-95241-7 (hardback : alk. paper) -- ISBN 0-415-95242-5 (pbk.)
1. Globalization--Social aspects. 2. Marginality, Social. 3. Indigenous peoples. I.
Kirsch, Max.
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Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Inclusion and Exclusion in the Global Arena 1
MAx KIrsch
Globalization and Its Theorists 3
World systems Theory revisited 6
Development Theory, social cohesion, and the
New Indigenism 10
Identity, social Planning, and Political Power 15
conclusion: structural Violence and structural
Power 22
references 26
Section I
World Systems Theory Reisited 29
chapter 1 Globalization and the Domestic Group 31
JAcK GooDy
references 41
Notes 42
chapter 2 Theoretical and Empirical Elements in the study
of Globalization 43
sAsKIA sAssEN
Place in a Global and Digital Economy 44

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i • Inclusion and Exclusion in the Global Arena
The Material Practices of Globalization 45
New Geographies of centrality and of
Marginality 48
A New Transnational Politics of Place? 50
sited Materialities with Global span 51
A Networked subeconomy 52
The Intersection between Actual and Digital
space 52
What Does contextuality Mean in This
setting? 53
Denationalized state Agendas and Privatized
Norm Making 55
conclusion 61
references 63
Notes 66
chapter 3 Do cellular Phones Dream of civil War? The
Mystification of Production and the consequences
of Technology Fetishism in the Eastern congo 71
JAMEs h. sMITh AND JEFFrEy W. MANTz
Introduction: cities of Bits versus cities in Bits:
coltan and the Digital Divide 72
Global Accounting 78
The Political and cultural Economy of coltan 78
cultural Economies of War 81
The cultural Dimensions of coltan 84
conclusion 86
references 87
Notes 92
Section II
Deelopment Theory, Social Cohesion, and the New Indigenism 95
chapter 4 Development strategies, the Exclusion of Women,
and Indigenous Alternatives 97
JuNE NAsh
Development for Whom? 99
Failure of Trickle‑down Effect and the critique of
Development in the 1970s and 1980s 101
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contents • ii
The Debt crisis and Women’s roles in survival
Economics 104
Endogenous Development with Women As Leaders
in the New revolution 108
Autonomous Development As an Alternative to
Neoliberalism 111
Plan Puebla Panama and the Invasion of oaxaca/
Lacandón Jungles 114
Where Do We Go From here? 118
concluding remarks 121
references 123
Notes 126
chapter 5 Indigenism and Its Discontents 129
rIchArD B. LEE
Indigenous Defined 133
The Terrain of the Indigenous 136
The Khoisan 137
on Kalahari revisionism 139
The Khoisan story 143
Indigenism Today 147
conclusion: Indigenes and Anthros 150
references 153
chapter 6 Environmentalism, Global community, and the
New Indigenism 161
BETh A. coNKLIN
Environmentalism and Globalization 164
scientific Legitimacy and Transnational Empathy 166
cultural critique and Moral Identity 167
Tensions in Eco‑community 168
Against Monoculturalism 172
references 174
Notes 175
chapter 7 Disorderly Development: Globalization and
the Idea of culture in the Kalahari 177
rENEE syLVAIN
Globalization and culture 178
Indigenous Identities in southern Africa 180
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iii • Inclusion and Exclusion in the Global Arena
Taming the “Wild” Bushmen 182
The omaheke san Today 184
Disorder, corruption, and class consciousness 187
Moving Targets 190
Ethnic Entrepreneurs and Ethnotourism 194
conclusion 199
references 200
Notes 204
Section III
Identity, Social Planning, and Political Power 207
chapter 8 Incorporation and Identity in the Making of the
Modern World 209
ErIc WoLF
chapter 9 Questioning Mestizaje: The social Mobilization
of Afrodescendent Women in Latin America 225
hELEN I. sAFA
Development of racial and Gender consciousness 227
Promoting the Welfare and social Mobility of the
Afrodescendent Population 231
Pressuring the state to redress Inequities 234
references 238
Notes 241
chapter 10 The Politics of Exclusion: Place and the
Legislation of the Environment in the
Florida Everglades 243
MAx KIrsch
A Brief history of the Everglades 244
Getting There 248
Levels of Integration 249
Global Forces 249
National Influences 252
Locality and sugar 254
The Implications of Everglades restoration 256
Politics and stratagems 259
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contents • ix
conclusion 262
references 264
Notes 268
chapter 11 Political struggles in Legal Arenas:
some African Instances 269
sALLy FALK MoorE
Introduction 269
Burkina Faso 273
A Kenyan’s career from the 1980s to the Present 276
International Tribunals and Africa 279
universal Jurisdiction: The Theory 281
conclusions 283
references 284
Notes 285
chapter 12 Dangerous and Endangered youth:
social structures and Determinants of Violence 287
NANcy schEPEr-huGhEs
Prologue: The Violence of Everyday Life 287
Brazil: Death squads and Democratization 289
south Africa: youth Violence, Popular Justice,
and human rights 299
White Justice: The Amy Biehl Trial 302
Who counts? 303
Popular Justice and the comrades 304
The Problem of the Incident 306
Discipline and Punish 310
reconciliation—Letting Go 311
Postscript 315
references 315
contributors 319
Index 325
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