In this Book
- Race and Rurality in the Global Economy
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY Press Open Access

summary
Issues of migration, environment, rurality, and the visceral "politics of place" and "space" have occupied center stage in recent electoral political struggles in the United States and Europe, suffused by an antiglobalization discourse that has come to resonate with Euro-American peoples. Race and Rurality in the Global Economy suggests that this present fractious global politics begs for closer attention to be paid to the deep-rooted conditions and outcomes of globalization and development. From multiple viewpoints the contributors to this volume propose ways of understanding the ongoing processes of globalization that configure peoples and places via a politics of rurality in a capitalist world economy, and through an optics of raciality that intersects with class, gender, identity, land, and environment. In tackling the dynamics of space and place, their essays address matters such as the heightened risks and multiple states of insecurity in the global economy; the new logics of expulsion and primitive accumulation dynamics shaping a new "savage sorting"; patterns of resistance and transformation in the face of globalization's political and environmental changes; the steady decline in the livelihoods of people of color globally and their deepened vulnerabilities; and the complex reconstitution of systemic and lived racialization within these processes. This book is an invitation to ask whether our dystopia in present politics can be disentangled from the deepening sense of "white fragility" in the context of the historical power of globalization's raced effects.
Table of Contents

- Half Title Page
- p. i
- Series Information
- p. ii
- List of Tables and Illustrations
- pp. vii-viii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-20
- Contributors
- pp. 285-288
Additional Information
ISBN
9781438471327
MARC Record
OCLC
1055160843
Pages
324
Launched on MUSE
2022-03-08
Language
English
Open Access
Yes