Beyond Borders Thinking Critically About Global Issues

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ISBN: 9780716773894 | 0716773899
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Copyright: 8/4/2005

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In a style reminiscent of Paula Rothenberg's acclaimed bestsellerRace, Class, and Gender in the United States,Beyond Bordersprovides a series of articles drawn from a variety of disciplines, written by scholars, activists, and policymakers from around the worldall carefully presented in historical perspective. While other texts focus on specific events, issues, or regions,Beyond Bordersprovides a wide array of selections that explore the dynamic complexities of life in our global villages.

Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Meet the Players	p. xxi
Putting Things in Perspective	p. 1
The Function of Maps	p. 7
Are Things What They Seem to Be? Reading Maps and Statistics	p. 16
Gender Issues in Labour Statistics	p. 27
Fracturing Binarisms: First and Third Worlds	p. 37
One-Third/Two-Thirds Worlds	p. 41
How Textbooks Around the World Portray U.S. History: The Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny	p. 44
Lapulapu and Magellan	p. 58
Mass Media: For the Many, by the Few	p. 60
Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion	p. 73
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 73
Colonialism and Its Legacy	p. 75
Empire as a Way of Life	p. 81
How It Began	p. 88
Eurocentrism	p. 97
The Legacy of Colonialism	p. 99
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa	p. 107
Colonialism in Africa, 1914 (map)	p. 126
Open Veins of Latin America	p. 127
Women, Colonisation, and Racism	p. 142
The Myth of Catching-up Development	p. 150
The Second Coming of Columbus: Piracy Through Patents	p. 158
Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion	p. 164
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 165
Constructing Difference: Creating "Other" Identities	p. 167
Assigning Value to Difference	p. 173
Hatred Written on the Body	p. 180
Stories from Rwanda	p. 195
Construction of an Enemy	p. 205
On Being South Asian in North America	p. 209
Dislocated Identities: Reflections of an Arab Jew	p. 216
Old and New Identities	p. 220
Sexual Identities: Western Imperialism?	p. 224
Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion	p. 245
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 246
Patriarchy and Domination	p. 247
The Patriarchal Family	p. 253
The Foundation of Gender Identity: Garaba, Relational Connectivity, and Patriarchy	p. 256
Gender, Race, and Class in Silicon Valley	p. 264
Daughters and Generals in the Politics of the Globalized Sneaker	p. 271
Violence Against Women	p. 278
Culture of Honor, Culture of Change: A Feminist Analysis of Honor Killings in Rural Turkey	p. 288
The Connection Between Militarism and Violence Against Women	p. 307
The Impact of Political Conflict on Women: The Case of Afghanistan	p. 311
Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion	p. 315
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 316
Poverty, Inequality, and Structural Violence	p. 317
Inequality in the Global Village	p. 323
Poverty and Inequality in the Global Economy	p. 330
Is World Poverty Falling?	p. 340
A Critical Look at Measurements of Economic Progress	p. 346
The Current State of Global Health	p. 356
Macroeconomics of Health: No Health Available at $7.50 per Person per Year	p. 364
Suffering and Structural Violence	p. 368
Testimony by FannyAnn Eddy at the U.N. Commission on Human Rights	p. 394
Facts on Child Labour	p. 396
World Poverty and Hunger Fact Sheet	p. 398
Women and the Poor: The Challenge of Global Justice	p. 400
Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion	p. 409
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 409
Transnational Institutions and the Global Economy	p. 411
Globalization and Its Discontents: The Promise of Global Institutions	p. 419
Race, Poverty, and Globalization	p. 432
On the Backs of Women and Children	p. 437
Privatization and Urban Issues: A Global Perspective	p. 440
Plunder and Profit	p. 446
The WTO and Globalization	p. 449
The Globalization of Poverty	p. 453
Shall We Leave It to the Experts?	p. 461
Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion	p. 468
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 469
Globalization in Everyday Life	p. 471
The Human Face of Economics in Argentina	p. 477
The Maquila in Guatemala: Facts and Trends	p. 481
Plan Puebla Panama	p. 488
GE Goes South	p. 490
Ground Down in the Fields: Coffee and State Authority in Colombia	p. 493
Latin American Indigenous Movements in the Context of Globalization	p. 498
Globalization and the Caribbean	p. 505
Debts, Reforms, and Social Services in Africa	p. 507
The Impact of Water Privatization on South African Women	p. 509
Water Privatization Charts	p. 515
Global Apartheid: AIDS and Murder by Patent	p. 517
The Chad-Cameroon Pipeline	p. 523
Squeezed by Debt and Time, Mothers Ship Babies to China	p. 526
Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy	p. 530
Exporting Harm: The High Tech Trashing of Asia	p. 540
The Globalized Village	p. 542
Your Farm Subsidies Are Strangling Us	p. 545
How Europe Sows Misery in Africa	p. 547
India's Poor Starve as Wheat Rots	p. 551
The Crisis of Potato Growers in U.P.	p. 554
Study Finds TV Trims Fiji Girls' Body Image and Eating Habits	p. 558
The World Bank and the "Next Green Revolution": Devastating IMF/World Bank Sponsored Environmental Projects in the Name of Progress	p. 561
Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion	p. 570
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 571
Toward a More Equitable Future: Grassroots Movements for Social Change	p. 573
Small Is Beautiful: Airports, McDonald's, and Hypermarkets in Mexico	p. 577
Building Water Democracy: People's Victory Against Coca-Cola in Plachimada	p. 580
Nigerian Women Win Out Against Oil Giants	p. 584
The New Student Movement	p. 585
Filipino Dump Activists Turn Waste into Wealth	p. 591
The Grameen Bank	p. 594
A Sampling of NGOs Working for Social Change	p. 598
Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion	p. 602
Afterword	p. 603
The Cost of American Privilege	p. 603
Index	p. 607
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