Books in the Tracking Globalization series

Urban youth and popular cultural practices in East Africa

From Oaxaca, where guides escort tourists to weavers' homes and then to the shops and markets where weavings are sold, to the galleries and stores of the American Southwest, where textiles are displayed and consumed as home decor, this work describes how the international market for Native American art shapes weavers' design choices.

The politics of visual representation and transnational interaction

Examines the "dark side" of globalization.

Globalization is inextricably bound up with intimate aspects of personhood, care, and the daily decisions through which we make our lives. Looking at sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, Mexico, the US, Europe, India, and China, this book investigates the impact of globalization in the context of families, age groups, and intergenerational relations.

Rethinking globalisation through music

Tells the story of the land and people of Banaba, a small Pacific island, which, from 1900 to 1980, was heavily mined for phosphate, an essential ingredient in fertilizer. This book offers an insight into the plight of other island peoples facing forced migration as a result of human impact on the environment.

Aging in a transnational era

Examines the stories that corporations tell about themselves - and explores the powerful influence of corporations in the transformation of cultural and social life.

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil, Vietnam, and Zambia, this volume integrates youth studies with urban studies, and argues that youth is an experience in its own right, not merely a transition from childhood to adulthood. It includes case studies in three cities - Recife, Hanoi, and Lusaka.

Contract workers from the Philippines make up one of the world's largest movements of temporary labor migrants. Deirdre McKay follows Filipino migrants from one rural community to work sites overseas and then home again. Focusing on the experiences of individuals, McKay interrogates current approaches to globalization, multi-sited research, subjectivity, and the village itself. She shows that rather than weakening village ties, temporary labor migration gives the village a new global dimension created in and through the relationships, imaginations, and faith of its members in its potential as a site for a better future.

Elizabeth Emma Ferry traces the movement of minerals as they circulate from Mexican mines to markets, museums, and private collections on both sides of the US-Mexico border. She describes how and why these byproducts of ore mining come to be valued by people in various walks of life as scientific specimens, religious offerings, works of art, and luxury collectibles. The story of mineral exploration and trade defines a variegated transnational space, shedding new light on the complex relationship between these two countries and on the process of making value itself.