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Ethnic Entrepreneurs : Identity and Development Politics in Latin America.
Title:
Ethnic Entrepreneurs : Identity and Development Politics in Latin America.
Author:
DeHart, Monica.
ISBN:
9780804773782
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (175 pages)
Contents:
Title Page -- Dedication -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Table of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 - Emergent Ethnic Landscapes -- Decentralization and the Micropolitics of Ethnic Development -- Translocality and the Remapping of Ethnic Identity -- Mapping Place and Method -- Overview of the Book -- 2 - Popor Fried Chicken? Redefining Development and Ethnicity -- Popularizing Local Development -- Community Development Convergences -- Development through Difference -- Fried Chicken or Pop? -- Grounding Ethnic Difference -- 3 - Remapping and Remitting Development -- Sending Development Home -- From Remitting Migrants to Ethnic Entrepreneurs -- New In-Roads to Development -- Shifting Development Landscapes -- 4 - "Hermano Entrepreneur!" Constructing a Latino Diaspora across the Digital Divide -- The Digital Diaspora Concept -- Inaugurating the Diaspora and Identifying "Us" -- Moral Markets -- Postnational Homelands -- Locating Latinos -- Deconstructing the Diaspora -- 5 - Welcome to Walmart! Corn and the New Community Business Model -- Enterprising Ethnicity -- People of Corn -- Expanding Commodity Landscapes -- The Corporate Community -- The Community Business Model: New Articulations of Identity and Community -- Visibility and Value: Repackaging Identity for the Market -- 6 - Accounting for Development Debates over Knowledge and Authority -- Accounting for Local Knowledge -- From State to Corporate Authority -- Knowing Networks -- The Micropolitics of Knowledge -- 7 - Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
Ethnic Entrepreneurs examines how diverse groups, including indigenous communities in Latin America and Latino communities in the United States, have become visible and valuable as agents of economic development in Latin America in recent years.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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