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Author Gregory, Steven, 1954- author.

Title The devil behind the mirror : globalization and politics in the Dominican Republic / Steven Gregory
Edition [New edition] with a new preface
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (311 pages)
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface to the 2014 Edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Politics of Livelihood; 2. The Spatial Economy of Difference; 3. Structures of the Imagination; 4. Sex Tourism and the Political Economy of Masculinity; 5. Race, Identity, and the Body Politic; 6. The Politics of Transnational Capital; Afterword; Notes; References; Index
Summary In The Devil behind the Mirror, Steven Gregory provides a compelling and intimate account of the impact that transnational processes associated with globalization are having on the lives and livelihoods of people in the Dominican Republic. Grounded in ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the adjacent towns of Boca Chica and Andrés, Gregory's study deftly demonstrates how transnational flows of capital, culture, and people are mediated by contextually specific power relations, politics, and history. He explores such topics as the informal economy, the making of a telenova, sex tourism, an
Notes Previous edition: 2007
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Globalization -- Political aspects -- Dominican Republic
Tourism -- Dominican Republic
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Economic history
Globalization -- Political aspects
Social conditions
Tourism
SUBJECT Dominican Republic -- Economic conditions -- 1961- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85038978
Dominican Republic -- Social conditions -- 1961- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85038995
Subject Dominican Republic
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520957893
052095789X