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How can America's information technology (IT) industry predict serious labor shortages while at the same time laying off tens of thousands of employees annually? The answer is the industry's flexible labor management system--a flexibility widely regarded as the modus operandi of global capitalism today. Global "Body Shopping" explores how flexibility and uncertainty in the IT labor market are constructed and sustained through concrete human actions.
Drawing on in-depth field research in southern India and in Australia, and folding an ethnography into a political economy examination, Xiang Biao offers a richly detailed analysis of the India-based global labor management practice known as "body shopping." In this practice, a group of consultants--body shops--in different countries works together to recruit IT workers. Body shops then farm out workers to clients as project-based labor; and upon a project's completion they either place the workers with a different client or "bench" them to await the next placement. Thus, labor is managed globally to serve volatile capital movement.
Underpinning this practice are unequal socioeconomic relations on multiple levels. While wealth in the New Economy is created in an increasingly abstract manner, everyday realities--stock markets in New York, benched IT workers in Sydney, dowries in Hyderabad, and women and children in Indian villages--sustain this flexibility.
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Displacing Natives: The Rhetorical Production of Hawai'i (Pacific Formations, Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspectives)
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This insightful study examines the strategies used by outsiders to usurp Hawaiian lands and undermine indigenous Hawaiian culture. Drawing upon historical and contemporary examples, Wood investigates the journals of Captain Cook, Hollywood films, commercialized hula, Waikiki development schemes, and the appropriation of Pele and Kilauea by haoles to explore how these diverse productions all displace Native culture.
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Splendid study, making Hawai'i resonate with wit and concern.......2000-05-09
"Displacing Natives" is a splendid study, making Hawai'i resonate with wit and concern, by tracking how the "rhetoric of demonization" was followed by a "rhetoric of preservation" that, in both historical instances and rhetorical tropes, worked to displace the Hawaiian Natives and their prior mythologies of place and nation. The wry chapter on the Hollywood movies of "safe savagery" makes an important and lasting contribution to the semiotics of imagining Hawai'i. This book would be of value to all students of Hawaiian literature and culture, and to scholars of Pacific native cultural studies as well. When transnational cultural and postcolonial studies turn to work up the Pacific (when the heck would that be?), this fine book will be here waiting, despite the poor marketing tactics or the lack of market flash.
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This innovative book examines the complexities of de-bordering and re-bordering through a systematic comparison of seven transborder subregions along the western Pacific Rim and an extended analysis of the U.S.-Mexico border and several European border regions. Xiangming Chen offers a synthetic explanation for the complex and diverse processes and outcomes of economic growth, social transformation, and urban landscapes in the new transnational spaces around the porous and mutated borders of the Pacific Rim and beyond. Visit our website for sample chapters!
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In this unique oral history, gay Asian Americans talk frankly about their struggle for self-determination and independence. Despite its size, until recently the gay Asian American community in Los Angeles was fragmented and marginalized as gay Asian men s
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original, needed, revolutionary, wonderful............2002-09-17
Eric Marcus records that men of color were questioned when they attended Mattachine events before Stonewall. Books and films concerning the Stonewall era and covering both coasts include Blacks and Latinos, but not Asians. Most work on gay men of color focus upon their struggles with HIV/AIDS. Urvashi Vaid writes that groups for gays and lesbians of color are largely invisible, underfunded, and short-lasting. When taking all these givens into account, an oral history about gay male Asian organizing pre-Stonewall and pre-AIDS is quite revolutionary and needed.
I am sooooo glad Wat had the vision and dedication to make this book. I was worried it would be a rough-around-the-edges dissertation, but it is smooth, well-conceived writing with a nice cover and everything. Finally, we get to hear about how gay Asian-American men negotiate their identities and make their own choices. This book is a gem.
This book is very much about the rise and fall of a gay Asian organization. Constructionists will love it. Essentialism is avoided in this work. Wat does a good job in predicting where gay Asian-Am activism is headed as well.
There are some problems with this book. Based on pure truth and no dilution from the author, a lot of this book focuses upon older white tops ordering around and manipulating Asian younger bottoms. People-of-color loving gay people of color will have a hard time swallowing these sections of the text. There's a catch-22 between the author and his interviewed subjects in which the subject's talking just prattles on but the author's analysis and academic sitations completely slow down the flow of the book. I'm kind of disappointed at how other gay men of color are erased from this history. For example, many of the subjects said they first met and spoke of organizing at a gay club that was half-Asian and half-Latino, yet no Latino is interviewed for this book, while whites are. The best chapter in the book deals with gay Asians as they try to become a part of mainstream Asian-American activism, yet the chapter is named after some "rice queen." Further, gay Asian in this book means male and "yellow", rather than "brown" or Polynesian here.
A few anthologies have chapters about gays of color and their organizing, but I can think of no book-length discussions. I am so glad I found this book. I think progressives and activists of all colors should read this book.
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SOILS: A new global view
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Soils: Genesis and Geomorphology
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Challenging prevalent views of the characteristics and origins of soils, the authors of this important book present a new approach to soils formation that has world-wide applicability. Adopting an earth science approach, they argue that soils are primarily geological materials altered and rearranged by biological, geological, and geomorphic processes, a theory supported by studies of soils in tropical and arid continental areas of Africa and Australia.
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Over the course of nearly two decades, the rave scene has evolved into much more than simply an electronic dance music party. For thousands of people around the world, it has become an important source of spirituality and the closest thing they have to a religion. Trance Formation is the first book to comprehensively explore the spiritual and religious dimensions of global rave culture.
Robin Sylvan combines colorful firsthand accounts, extensive interviews with ravers, and cutting edge scholarly analysis to paint a compelling portrait of global rave culture as an important new religious and spiritual phenomenon that also serves as a template for mapping the future evolution of new forms of religion and spirituality in the twenty-first century.
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Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols 2000: 15th International Conference, Rolla, Missouri, USA, 6-11 August 2000 (AIP Conference Proceedings)
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Conference attendees from about 30 countries met to present research results and discuss current issues in the fields of topospheric and stratospheric aerosols and nucleation phenomena. Specifically addressed are aerosol and nucleation mechanisms affecting ice formation, cloud droplet formation and growth, aerosol-cloud interactions, and aerosol related global warming and ozone depletion mechanisms as well as acid rain production and pollution of the earth's atmosphere. The nucleation symposium part of this conference addresses all theoretical and experimental aspects of single and multi-component nucleation, ion induced nucleation and heterogeneous nucleation involving foreign particulates. The conference attracts leading scientists in the aerosol and nucleation communities and the Proceedings provides a technical summary of the current status of research.
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Computer-centered networks and technologies are reshaping social relations and constituting new social domains on a global scale, from virtually borderless electronic markets and Internet-based large-scale conversations to worldwide open source software development communities, transnational corporate production systems, and the global knowledge-arenas associated with NGO networks. This book explores how such "digital formations" emerge from the ever-changing intersection of computer-centered technologies and the broad range of social contexts that underlie much of what happens in cyberspace.
While viewing technologies fundamentally in social rather than technical terms, Digital Formations nonetheless emphasizes the importance of recognizing the specific technical capacities of digital technologies. Importantly, it identifies digital formations as a new area of study in the social sciences and in thinking about globalization. The ten chapters, by leading scholars, examine key social, political, and economic developments associated with these new configurations of organization, space, and interaction. They address the operation of digital formations and their implications for the development of longstanding institutions and for their wider contexts and fields, and they consider the political, economic, and other forces shaping those formations and how the formations, in turn, are shaping such forces.
Following a conceptual introduction by the editors are chapters by Hayward Alker, Jonathan Bach and David Stark, Lars-Erik Cederman and Peter A. Kraus, Dieter Ernst, D. Linda Garcia, Doug Guthrie, Robert Latham, Warren Sack, Saskia Sassen, and Steven Weber.
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very good book on social aspects of the digital age.......2007-05-03
This is an interesting collection of essays about what the editors call "digital formations." A social formation is something in society that is emerging without a single founding event, in its early stages of development, and tending toward a variable structure and nature (p. 9). Despite this, "you should be able to identify a coherent configuration of organization, space, and interaction" (p. 10).
Several of the social formations studied by the authors in this volume are only partly digital: that is, they combine digital and non-digital elements. There are all, however, subject to "digitization" which involves the "rendering of facets of social and political life in a digital form" (p. 16). One important reason for studying digital formations is that some are potentially "destabilizing of existing hierarchies of scale and nested hierarchies" (p. 19) while others reinforce them. An example of the former is the open source software movement (as chronicled here by Steve Weber); an example of the latter is what Dieter Ernst in his chapter calls the "global flagship networks" created by large multinational corporations. The introductory chapter of this volume does an excellent job of providing a theoretical underpinning for the rest of the volume.
The second chapter, by Jonathan Bach and David Stark, focuses on the growing presence of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the international system as an example of a networking style of organization in contrast with and sometimes in opposition to the territorially based system of nation-states. The third and related chapter by Saskia Sassen compares global capital markets with global electronic activists networks, arguing that global capital markets reproduce pre-existing power structures while activists generally work to undermine them. The explanation for the difference is mainly how results are obtained in the two systems: in capital markets, deep financial knowledge is often concentrated in a limited number of urban locations, whereas in activist networks, global political goals are achieved by means of the "knowing multiplication of local practices" (p. 83). The latter lends itself to distributed and parallel social processes, while the former does not.
Dieter Ernst's essay on global flagship networks in Chapter 4 argues that economic globalization has led to a type of international competition in which multinationals create and maintain alliances of suppliers internationally through digital information systems. The latter are used by global corporations to diffuse certain types of knowledge "to gain quick access to skills and capabilities at lower-cost overseas locations that complement the flagships' core competencies" (p. 91).
This is a useful insight consistent with a growing number of empirical studies of international collaborations in high-technology industries. My only complaint is that it overly emphasizes the continued dominance of global firms like IBM, Microsoft, and Intel at the expense of analysis of new corporate challengers like Samsung in Korea or Acer in Taiwan or Lenovo and Haier in China. The long-term consequences of short-term strategies of knowledge diffusion need also to be considered.
In Chapter 5, Linda Garcia does a good job of summarizing the implications of digital networks for the rural-urban divide. She calls for a "deliberate rural strategy... to assure that rural communities [have] equal access to critical infrastructure..." (p. 141).
Robert Latham provides a brief historical summary of the rise of the Internet in Chapter 6. He correctly reminds readers that there was nothing inevitable about the triumph of the TCP/IP protocols that resulted in the creation of the Internet. Many firms and national governments supported more closed networking architectures such as Open Systems Interconnection (OSI). He argues that the key to the success of TCP/IP was the ease with which it allowed users to interconnect with others who had informational resources that were highly valued. Lower costs, efficiency, and faster interconnectivity were not sufficient; there had to be also an information payoff.
Steven Weber's chapter (Chapter 7) on open source software does an excellent job of summarizing the arguments presented earlier in his book The Success of Open Source (Harvard 2004) and extending them for the purposes of this volume. Toward the end of the chapter, he speculates about whether it is possible for firms and governments based on hierarchical organizational principles to compete effectively with groups of engineers and terrorists organized on networking principles.
In Chapters 8 and 9 respectively, Hayward Alker and Warren Sack describe their efforts to provide software tools for the representation of complex verbal data. Alker's chapter is focused on early warning systems for transboundary conflicts while Sack's is directed at analysis of very large-scale conversations on the Internet. Both approaches are interesting, but these chapters seem to be a bit peripheral to the central point of the volume.
The last two chapters deal with the implications of the Internet for democracies (Chapter 10) and for authoritarian regimes (Chapter 11), and China specifically in the case of the latter. Lars-Erik Cederman and Peter A. Kraus assert that "information technology plays a prominent role in the debate about how to promote a closer union of Europe's peoples" (p. 283). They argue for a logic of bounded institutionalism, in contrast with national substantialism and civic volunteerism, in conceptualizing democracy in the European Union, in order to put the role of the Internet in its proper perspective. They posit that cyberdemocracy alone will not help "the demos and democracy...to develop in tandem" (p. 305), especially since most Europeans still get most of their information about Europe from television and not from the Internet. Apparently their target is a thesis put forward by some Europeans that technology alone may be sufficient to build a sounder foundation for democracy in Europe.
Similarly, in his chapter on China (Chapter 11), Doug Guthrie argues that "information technology holds at once promise and peril for the Chinese government" (p. 313). The government needs information technology to continue to pursue its economic development goals, but it wants to limit the use of that technology by its citizens for the purpose of organizing opposition to the one-party system. Guthrie, like Cederman and Kraus, is skeptical about claims that the diffusion of information technologies will upset existing political arrangements in the short term. Nevertheless, he states that "on the micro level, IT does appear to play a role in the evolution of new types of social networks and in creating opportunities for newly emerging sectors of society" (p. 314).
Thus, with the possible exceptions of Chapters 8 and 9, all the chapters in this edited volume have a common theme consistent with the theoretical framework provided by the editors in Chapter 1. It is disappointing that the editors do not provide a conclusion: still, the first chapter does a good job of summarizing the content of the rest of the volume. The writing is generally clear and the arguments are well presented. I would recommend the volume for use in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on the politics of information technology.
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The fall of communism, the emergence of the information age, and the expansion of economic globalism are the points of departure for this new edition of Chase-Dunn's landmark book. The author shows how these seemingly new developments fit with earlier patterns of global formation and change, extending the influential model that drew wide attention to this award-winning book. The new edition also evaluates recent major studies of the modern world-system and assesses the implications for the future of the contemporary system.
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Still pseudo-intellectual junk after ten years.......2002-10-06
Since the collapse of Soviet communism it's much easier to laugh at the dogmatic, unsubstantiated, absurd theories like the one presented here by Mr. Chase-Dunn. It seems hard to believe now that people actually believed in this intellectual detritus, actually studied it, pondered it, discussed it around cocktails. It's been exposed now, in the real world, as worthless left-wing flotsam, but just to refresh the potential reader's memory, let me point out a few of the most ridiculous, obvious, shout-in-your-face errors of Mr. Chase-Dunn's theory of the "capitalist world-economy":
(1) the interstate system is not a result of capitalism. If anything, it's the other way around. National sentiment and territorial integrity, hallmarks of the interstate system, provided the necessary stability for long-term capital formation and its resulting technological progression. These two factors are essential elements of capitalism.
(2) Mercantilism is not capitalism. Mercantilism as an economic theory posits an effective use of territorial resources (e.g., exporting); capitalism posits an effective use of capital (i.e., investment of capital in ever more efficient means of production).
(3) Warfare is not the result of the capitalist world economy, as Mr. Chase-Dunn claims on page 108. Rather, warfare is a fundamental part of human nature, and existed long before "capitalism" was even a word, let alone a viable economic order.
(4) Mr. Chase-Dunn cannot claim that there are multiple "semi-peripheries" and still maintain a coherent theory that examines the relationship between the "core" and the "periphery."
(5) The scramble for new periphery states is not the only cause of WW I; rather, WW I was caused by the confluences of a variety of unique circumstances, only some of which were economic and none of which were attributable to capital per se. WW I was caused by such things as: German nationalism and the unique structure of the German state (e.g., becoming a state after the other Great Powers and thereby missing the opportunity for colonial acquisitions); social Darwinism; nationalism; and advances in military technology.
(6) Mr. Chase-Dunn conveniently forgets to explain how supposedly peripheral states like Japan could, and did, progress to the level of core states, because to do so would contradict his doctrine of a permanent core-periphery dichotomy. This doctrine is really nothing more than a rehash of the "dependency" theory, a faddish doctrine popularized in the early 1970s by Fernando Cardoso (who has subsequently repudiated it and is now president of free-market Brazil).
(7) Mr. Chase-Dunn's economic analysis (to use the word loosely) that attempts to tie together four centuries of warfare is the dumbest exercise in pseudo-intellectual reasoning I've ever had the displeasure of being forced to read. Idiographic factors are just too common in warfare, and the known factors just too large and amorphous, to be able to draw *any* sound economic conclusions from their occurrence, except the obvious one that a lot of money and lives were wasted.
So Mr. Chase-Dunn should ensconce himself in some fashionable liberal East-Coast University (actually, he's already done that) and, together with his other fellow Neo-Marxist pointy-head friends, collectively mourn the fact that reality did them the discourtesy of totally, finally, completely, and crushingly destroying their economic theories.
Any idiot can reverse-engineer history.......2002-10-06
And Chase-Dunn proves it. The anonymous August 11, 2002 reviewer critiques my old review but doesn't bother with specifics. Typical.
Back to Chase-Dunn. Any idiot can say that something is the cause of something else just because it either (i) precedes it in time or (ii) has similar elements. Neither is conclusive of cause and effect. Although Chase-Dunn's "world systems" theory is more riddled with contradictions than a Valentine's Day Massacre corpse is with bullets, the mmost egregious of his errors is to tie four centuries of warfare to capitalism.
The world "capitalism" wasn't even *created* until the late 18th century. Capitalists like world stability in order to invest money. Why do you think every country in Latin America has a "country risk" premium, for crissakes? Capitalism and capitalists *hate* uncertainty because they have to make ROI (that "return on investment" for you communists out there) decisions and the uncertainty war creates makes for unprofitable investment decisions. Now, communists like Chase-Dunn on the other hand, they love war, because like radical Islam, it's a violent, universal ideology.
A masterpiece.......2002-08-11
This book is by far the most comprehensive discussion of the structure of the world-economy from the world-systems perspective. Chase-Dunn builds his theory and analyses on the earlier works of Wallerstein, Arrighi and others but takes a critically important step by emphasizing the interactions of economic, political, and military power and how they impact the structure of the world-economy and reproduce certain structural constants of the modern world-system. With all due respect to the previous reviewer affiliated with a law school--this is directly a message for you--your are wrong and your historical analysis is completely faulted. Furthermore, your critiques illustrate either your lack of understanding the text or your ignorance of history.
An Exceptional Overview of the World-Systems Perspective........2002-02-26
Christopher Chase-Dunn has performed a monumental service to academics and students alike by providing this overview of contemporary world-systems thinking. Global Formation provides a thorough discussion of current research, theory and application of the world-systems perspective. With this book, Chase-Dunn has done much to extend the importance of the social aspects of the global political-economy. The book should have a wide readership owing to the great utility the perspective has for integrating disciplines in the social sciences.
Economic geopolitical theory for left-wing ideologues.......1998-03-17
Since the collapse of Soviet communism it's much easier to laugh at the dogmatic, unsubstantiated, absurd theories like the one presented here by Mr. Chase-Dunn. It seems hard to believe now that people actually believed in this intellectual detritus, actually studied it, pondered it, discussed it around cocktails. It's been exposed now, in the real world, as worthless left-wing flotsam, but just to refresh the potential reader's memory, let me point out a few of the most ridiculous, obvious, shout-in-your-face errors of Mr. Chase-Dunn's theory of the "capitalist world-economy": (1) the interstate system is not a result of capitalism. If anything, it's the other way around. National sentiment and territorial integrity, hallmarks of the interstate system, provided the necessary stability for long-term capital formation and its resulting technological progression. These two facctors are essential elements of capitalism. (2) Mercantilism is not capitalism. Mercantilism as an economic theory posits an effective use of territorial resources (e.g., exporting); capitalism posits an effective use of capital (i.e., investment of capital in ever more efficient means of production). (3) Warfare is not the result of the capitalist world economy, as Mr. Chase-Dunn claims on page 108. Rather, warfare is a fundamental part of human nature, and existed long before "capitalism" was even a word, let alone a viable economic order. (4) Mr. Chase-Dunn cannot claim that there are multiple "semi-peripheries" and still maintain a coherent theory that examines the relationship between the "core" and the "periphery." (5) The scramble for new periphry states is not the only cause of WW I; rather, WW I was caused by the confluences of a variety of unique circumstances, only some of which were economic and none of which were attributable to capital per se. WW I was caused by such things as: German nationalism and the unique structure of the German state (e.g., becoming a state after the other Great Powers and thereby missing the opportunity for colonial acquisitions); social Darwinism; nationalism; and advances in military technology. (6) Mr. Chase-Dunn conveniently forgets to explain how supposedly peripheral states like Japan could, and did, progress to the level of core states, because to do so would contradict his doctrine of a permanent core-periphery dichotomy. This doctrine is really nothing more than a rehash of the "dependency" theory, a faddish doctrine popularized in the early 1970s by Fernando Cardoso (who has subsequently repudiated it and is now president of free-market Brazil). (7) Mr. Chase-Dunn's economic analysis (to use the word loosely) that attempts to tie together four centuries of warfare is the dumbest exercise in pseudo-intellectual reasoning I've ever had the displeasure of being forced to read. Ideographic factors are just too common in warfare, and the known factors just too large and amorphous, to be able to draw *any* sound economic conclusions, or all things, from their occurrence. So Mr. Chase-Dunn should ensonce himself in some fashionable liberal East-Coast University (actually, he's already done that) and, together with his other fellow Neo-Marxist pointy-head friends, collectively mourn the fact that reality did them the discourtesy of totally, finally, completely, and crushingly destroying their economic theories.
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Born in the USA: A Story of Japanese America, 1889-1947 (Pacific Formations, Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspectives)
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This unique oral history presents the Japanese American saga as told by those who lived through it. Frank Chin details the lives of first and second generation Japanese Americans before World War II with a rich kaleidoscope of images drawn from interviews, popular songs, novels, and newspaper articles. The heart of his story is the tragedy that followed the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when Japanese American citizens lost their homes and property and were forced into internment camps. The author deftly weaves interviews and testimony from the Japanese American Citizen's League (JACL) with opposing, in-depth conversations with those who resisted the JACL's support for U.S. policy. This shameful episode in American history resonates deeply today as we witness similar erosions of civil rights in the name of wartime security.
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