Global Displacements

Marion Werner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. Her research lies at the intersection of critical development studies, feminist theory, and political economy with a focus on Latin America and the Caribbean.

"At a time when empirical work is increasingly done as fast research or sidelined altogether, it is a pleasure to see what good monographs are capable of achieving ... Werner brilliantly demonstrates how the global factory works as a set of discourses and spatial imaginaries in addition to the mechanisms of capitalist accumulation ... Global Displacements offers provocative insights enabling the reader to look behind the veils of all-too-simplistic representations that promise economic development with the help of global factory and global value chain."—Christian Berndt, Economic Geography, Vol. 93 No. 2

• Series Editors’ Preface viList of Abbreviations viiList of Figures and Tables ixAcknowledgements x1 Introduction: Power and Difference in Global Production 12 Two Stories of Caribbean Development: Garments‐as‐ Globalization and Garments‐as‐Regional Entrepreneurialism 283 From Manufactura to Mentefactura? Gender and Industrial Restructuring in the Dominican Republic 544 Embodied Negotiations: Geographies of Work after Trade Zones 855 Reworking Coloniality through the Haitian–Dominican Border 1136 Haiti, the Global Factory and the Politics of Reconstruction 1417 Unsettling Dominant Crisis Narratives of the Caribbean 1638 Conclusion 181Bibliography 187Index 206