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Beyond Borders: Thinking Critically about Global Issues » (1st Edition)

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Authors: Paula S. Rothenberg
ISBN-13: 9780716773894, ISBN-10: 0716773899
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Worth Publishers, Incorporated
Date Published: August 2005
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Paula S. Rothenberg

Book Synopsis

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

	Preface	xv
	Acknowledgments	xix
	Meet the Players	xxi
Part 1	Putting Things in Perspective	1
1	The Function of Maps	7
2	Are Things What They Seem to Be? Reading Maps and Statistics	16
3	Gender Issues in Labour Statistics	27
4	Fracturing Binarisms: First and Third Worlds	37
5	One-Third/Two-Thirds Worlds	41
6	How Textbooks Around the World Portray U.S. History: The Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny	44
7	Lapulapu and Magellan	58
8	Mass Media: For the Many, by the Few	60
	Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion	73
	Suggestions for Further Reading	73
Part 2	Colonialism and Its Legacy	75
1	Empire as a Way of Life	81
2	How It Began	88
3	Eurocentrism	97
4	The Legacy of Colonialism	99
5	How Europe Underdeveloped Africa	107
6	Colonialism in Africa, 1914 (map)	126
7	Open Veins of Latin America	127
8	Women, Colonisation, and Racism	142
9	The Myth of Catching-up Development	150
10	The Second Coming of Columbus: Piracy Through Patents	158
	Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion	164
	Suggestions for Further Reading	165
Part 3	Constructing Difference: Creating "Other" Identities	167
1	Assigning Value to Difference	173
2	Hatred Written on the Body	180
3	Stories from Rwanda	195
4	Construction of an Enemy	205
5	On Being South Asian in North America	209
6	Dislocated Identities: Reflections of an Arab Jew	216
7	Old and New Identities	220
8	Sexual Identities: Western Imperialism?	224
	Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion	245
	Suggestions for Further Reading	246
Part 4	Patriarchy and Domination	247
1	The Patriarchal Family	253
2	The Foundation of Gender Identity: Garaba, Relational Connectivity, and Patriarchy	256
3	Gender, Race, and Class in Silicon Valley	264
4	Daughters and Generals in the Politics of the Globalized Sneaker	271
5	Violence Against Women	278
6	Culture of Honor, Culture of Change: A Feminist Analysis of Honor Killings in Rural Turkey	288
7	The Connection Between Militarism and Violence Against Women	307
8	The Impact of Political Conflict on Women: The Case of Afghanistan	311
	Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion	315
	Suggestions for Further Reading	316
Part 5	Poverty, Inequality, and Structural Violence	317
1	Inequality in the Global Village	323
2	Poverty and Inequality in the Global Economy	330
3	Is World Poverty Falling?	340
4	A Critical Look at Measurements of Economic Progress	346
5	The Current State of Global Health	356
6	Macroeconomics of Health: No Health Available at $7.50 per Person per Year	364
7	Suffering and Structural Violence	368
8	Testimony by FannyAnn Eddy at the U.N. Commission on Human Rights	394
9	Facts on Child Labour	396
10	World Poverty and Hunger Fact Sheet	398
11	Women and the Poor: The Challenge of Global Justice	400
	Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion	409
	Suggestions for Further Reading	409
Part 6	Transnational Institutions and the Global Economy	411
1	Globalization and Its Discontents: The Promise of Global Institutions	419
2	Race, Poverty, and Globalization	432
3	On the Backs of Women and Children	437
4	Privatization and Urban Issues: A Global Perspective	440
5	Plunder and Profit	446
6	The WTO and Globalization	449
7	The Globalization of Poverty	453
8	Shall We Leave It to the Experts?	461
	Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion	468
	Suggestions for Further Reading	469
Part 7	Globalization in Everyday Life	471
1	The Human Face of Economics in Argentina	477
2	The Maquila in Guatemala: Facts and Trends	481
3	Plan Puebla Panama	488
4	GE Goes South	490
5	Ground Down in the Fields: Coffee and State Authority in Colombia	493
6	Latin American Indigenous Movements in the Context of Globalization	498
7	Globalization and the Caribbean	505
8	Debts, Reforms, and Social Services in Africa	507
9	The Impact of Water Privatization on South African Women	509
10	Water Privatization Charts	515
11	Global Apartheid: AIDS and Murder by Patent	517
12	The Chad-Cameroon Pipeline	523
13	Squeezed by Debt and Time, Mothers Ship Babies to China	526
14	Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy	530
15	Exporting Harm: The High Tech Trashing of Asia	540
16	The Globalized Village	542
17	Your Farm Subsidies Are Strangling Us	545
18	How Europe Sows Misery in Africa	547
19	India's Poor Starve as Wheat Rots	551
20	The Crisis of Potato Growers in U.P.	554
21	Study Finds TV Trims Fiji Girls' Body Image and Eating Habits	558
22	The World Bank and the "Next Green Revolution": Devastating IMF/World Bank Sponsored Environmental Projects in the Name of Progress	561
	Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion	570
	Suggestions for Further Reading	571
Part 8	Toward a More Equitable Future: Grassroots Movements for Social Change	573
1	Small Is Beautiful: Airports, McDonald's, and Hypermarkets in Mexico	577
2	Building Water Democracy: People's Victory Against Coca-Cola in Plachimada	580
3	Nigerian Women Win Out Against Oil Giants	584
4	The New Student Movement	585
5	Filipino Dump Activists Turn Waste into Wealth	591
6	The Grameen Bank	594
	A Sampling of NGOs Working for Social Change	598
	Questions for Thinking, Writing, and Discussion	602
	Afterword	603
	The Cost of American Privilege	603
	Index	607