Overview

This work provides a statement on the question of place-based activism and its relationship to powerful forces of international capital. The contributors argue that, in the context of rapidly expanding global technologies and investment options, specific places around the world are sites for the defence and enhancement of daily life. This work brings together the local and the global, and links ethnic groups in diaspora to the macrocosmic processes of world capital that inevitably reach down to mediate even the most local experience. The essays offer arguments and information on how local experience interacts with the world at large. The places disccused are varied, from Los Angeles and New York to New Zealand and Indonesia.

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A genuinely original contribution that will open up a field of inquiry and thinking. Especially valuable is the attempt to relate ethnic and intra-ethnic studies in the United States to the larger processes of diasporic movements and metropolitan cultures, which has not been done before and is brilliantly articulated in the introductory essay.--Harry Harootunian

A valuable book...of theoretical interest to scholars in all areas of political science from American Politics to International Relations. It holds practical advice for activists, whether community based or members of international organizations. H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online A genuinely original contribution that will open up a field of inquiry and thinking. Especially valuable is the attempt to relate ethnic and intra-ethnic studies in the United States to the larger processes of diasporic movements and metropolitan cultures, which has not been done before and is brilliantly articulated in the introductory essay. -- Harry Harootunian, New York University

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Roxann Prazniak is assistant professor of history at the Robert D. Clark Honors College, University of Oregon. Arif Dirlik is professor of history at the University of Oregon.

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