Gacitúa-Marió,Estanislao (Author), Norton,Andrew (Author), and Georgieva,Sophia V. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Washington, DC: World Bank
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
270 p., Examines the validity of a social guarantees approach as a framework for evaluating, monitoring, and improving the design of social policy. Social guarantees are defined as sets of policy mechanisms that determine citizens' entitlements related to basic services and ensure their fulfillment on the part of the state. Includes Rachel Hannah Nadelman, Lavern Louard-Greaves, and Carol Watson Williams' "Achieving equitable and inclusive citizenship through social policy : the case of Jamaica and St. Kitts and Nevis."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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246 p., Discusses the development, growth and influence of Caribbean soft power in music, dance and popular song as well as the contemporary novel in the Anglophone Caribbean and the North American and European diaspora. Issues such as Black Power,migrants, feminism and party politics are discussed at some length.
Examines changing relations of accumulation taking shape in the garment export industry in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Draws upon a framework called "the coloniality of power" to consider the reworking of the social and spatial boundaries between hyper-exploited wage work and the people and places cast out from its relations.
Anderson,Jaynie (Editor) and Comité international d'histoire de l'art (Author)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Carlton, Vic: Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Publishing
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
International Congress of the History of Art (32nd :; 2008 :; Melbourne, Vic.); Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art, CIHA, The University of Melbourne, 13-18 January 2008., 1108 p., Presents an examination of the effect of globalism on art and art history. Covering different aspects of art, this title explores the themes of conflict, migration and convergence in the visual, symbolic and artistic exchanges between cultures throughout history. Includes Roberto Conduru's "From silence to multiple incorporation: art and Afro-Brazilian religions."
Focuses on education in developing countries in the context of globalization and with specific reference to the Caribbean. Explores the possibility of the creation of a third space where the local and the global can co-mingle and new understandings can emerge.
Wiggan,Greg A. (Editor) and Hutchison,Charles B. (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Education
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
339 p., Includes Alicia Trotman and Greg Wiggan's "Inclusive education in the global context : the impact on the government and teachers in a developing country : Trinidad and Tobago" and Jean Walrond's "In the diaspora, black Caribbean Canadian culture matters : perspectives on education 'back home'."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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263 p., Brings together adult education theorists and practitioners from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean (and diaspora from these regions) in an attempt to foreground issues, concepts, theories, and practices of adult education in Southern locations. Includes Jean Walrond's "Adult education and development in the Caribbean."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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263 p., Demonstrates how processes of globalization (economic, cultural, socio-political) are creating new possibilities and inequities and are thereby creating corresponding roles for adult education and learning in the South (Africa, Asia, South America) that are embedded in multiple political, economic and cultural projects for social change. Includes Jean Walrond's "Adult education and development in the Caribbean."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
458 p., Offers a contemporary approach to World Regional Geography, acknowledging the geographic changes that accompany today's rapid rate of globalization. Includes chapter on "The Caribbean."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
233 p., Examines China's rise, its role in the greater China region, and its influence in other regions of the world. Includes William Vlcek's "Development--great and small: "Greater China," small Caribbean islands and offshore finance."
