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Title

Globalization from below : the world's other economy / edited by Gordon Mathews, Gustavo Lins Ribeiro, and Carlos Alba Vega.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Mathews, Gordon.
• Ribeiro, Gustavo Lins.
• Alba Vega, Carlos.

Description

x, 247 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Summary

This book explores globalization as actually experienced by most of the world's people, buying goods from street vendors brought by traders moving past borders and across continents under the radar of the law. The dimensions and practices of 'globalization from below' are depicted and analyzed in detail by a team of international scholars. Topics covered include the 'New Silk Road', African traders in China, street hawking in Calcutta and pirate CDs in Mexico. The chapters provide intimate portrayals of routes, markets and people in locations across the globe and explore theories that can help make sense of these complex and fascinating case studies. Students of globalization, economic anthropology and developing-world economics will find the book invaluable.

Subject

• Small business
• Globalization

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: What is globalization from below? / Gordon Mathews and Carlos Alba Vega -- Part 1: Mapping globalization from below : routes, nodes, laws. Following the new Silk Road between Yiwu and Cairo / Olivier Pliez -- "They come from China" : pirate CDs in Mexico in transnational perspective / José Carlos G. Aguiar -- Ciudad del Este and Brazilian circuits of commercial distribution / Fernando Rabossi -- Neoliberalism and globalization from below in Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong / Gordon Mathews -- Illegalisms and the city of Sao Paulo / Vera da Silva Telles -- Part 2: Embodying globalization from below : entrepreneurs, traders, peddlers. Hong Kong petty capitalists investing in China : risk tolerance, uncertain investment environments, success and failure / Alan Smart and Josephine Smart -- From secondhand clothing to cosmetics : how Philippine-Hong Kong entrepreneurs fill gaps in cross-border trade / B. Lynne Milgram -- Mexican "ant traders" in the EI Paso/Ciudad Juarez border region : tensions between globalization, securitization and new mobility regimes / Melissa Gauthier -- African traders in Guangzhou : routes, reasons, profits, dreams / Yang Yang -- In the shadow of the mall : street hawking in global Calcutta / Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay -- Localism meets globalization at an American street market / Robert Shepherd -- Local politics and globalization from below : the peddler leaders of Mexico City's historic center streets / Carlos Alba Vega -- Conclusion: Globalization from below and the non-hegemonic world-system / Gustavo Lins Ribeiro.

Call Number

JBE 13-1071

ISBN

• 9780415535083 (hbk)
• 0415535085 (hbk)
• 9780415535090 (pbk)
• 0415535093 (pbk)
• 9780203106006 (ebk)
• 0203106008 (ebk)

LCCN

• 2012003472
• 40021508771

OCLC

773023765

Title

Globalization from below : the world's other economy / edited by Gordon Mathews, Gustavo Lins Ribeiro, and Carlos Alba Vega.

Imprint

London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Mathews, Gordon.

Ribeiro, Gustavo Lins.

Alba Vega, Carlos.

Other Standard Identifier

40021508771

Research Call Number

JBE 13-1071