The Making of Belize: Globalization in the Margins

Amazon.com Price: $31.95 (as of 06/05/2019 00:36 PST- Details)

Categories: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Description

Globalization theorists predict that the forces of globalization will divide the countries of the world into a couple of winners and lots of losers. This book challenges that idea and suggests that the very margins of the global world system―where the construction of local relations and group identities within a deterritorialized, transnational political economy allows for a creative postmodernism―may turn into the areas of the most creative cultural activity. The difficulties facing people who find themselves globalizing in the margins come from powerful transnational movements such as the environmental movement, the international drug trade, and migrations of people including international tourists. Satirically, instant contact with the remainder of the world has created a sense of local identity that transcends the local and is really multicultural.

Belize is a diverse, multicultural society that may be both cosmopolitan and deterritorialized, looking for new forms of collective expression, identity, and imagined possibilities, coming into its own as a nation at a time of increasing awareness of global social realities. Perhaps the rreatest challenge faced by Belizeans is the power of the transnational eco-colonialists who have, with missionary zeal, garnered regulate of land and resources and placed themselves in positions of political power. The present is an end of history for Belize and the beginning of a new era, one that may be peculiarly postmodern, globalized, and creative.

Related products

Home » Shop » Books » Subjects » Arts and Photography » History and Criticism » History » Americas » Central America » Belize » The Making of Belize: Globalization in the Margins

Recent Products