This ambitious work provides a unique statement on the question of place-based activism and its relationship to powerful forces of international capital. Arguing that specific places around the world are sites for the defense and enhancement of daily life in the context of rapidly expanding global technologies and investment options, the contributors reach for a vision of social development that supports sustainable, humane cultures. Bringing together the local and the global, this work provides the first sustained linkage of ethnic groups in diaspora to macrocosmic processes of world capital that inevitably reach down to mediate even the most local experiences. The essays, ranging in their discussion of place from Los Angeles and New York to New Zealand and Indonesia, offer both reasoned argument and authoritiative information on how local experience interacts with larger processes of global capital and the diasporic phenomenon. The book will be an invaluable resource and launching point for scholars and students in ethnic and identity studies and will interest all readers exploring the production of place and identification.

About the Author
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.

Reviews
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



Book Information
ISBN 9780742500396
Author Roxann Prazniak
Format Paperback
Page Count 352
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Weight(grams) 522g
Dimensions(mm) 220mm * 147mm * 20mm