{"product_id":"el-paso-victor-m-ortiz-gonzalez-9780816640775","title":"El Paso: Local Frontiers at a Global Crossroads Volume 13","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eA grounded and instructive analysis of the ways globalization affects a border city\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery marker of social difference can be easily interpreted in the fashionable language of \"borderlands\"--and if so, as Victor M. Ortiz-Gonzalez reveals, the practical reality of the border region is often grossly misrepresented and its people woefully served. He argues that amid the tantalizing abstractions generated by the sweeping reconfigurations of globalization, people in cities like El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, on the U.S.-Mexican border, are actually living the gritty realities of a new world order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith descriptions of grassroots initiatives to confront the challenges and opportunities that NAFTA represents for the city, \u003ci\u003eEl Paso\u003c\/i\u003e challenges us to acknowledge and address the conceptual and sociopolitical tasks of a world in which abstract representations and non-local interests override concrete situations. Ortiz-Gonzalez also provides an in-depth analysis of groups such as La Mujer Obrera, Unite El Paso, and the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and their attempts to give local residents and workers more autonomy and power.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBalancing ethnographic detail with precise theoretical insights, \u003ci\u003eEl Paso\u003c\/i\u003e offers a compelling case study and a stirring call to understand both the conceptual challenge and the social urgency of the effects of globalization in local settings.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Victor M. Ortiz-Gonzalez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816640777\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816640775\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.16h x 5.44w x 0.45d","brand":"Victor M. Ortiz-Gonzalez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096752431359,"sku":"9780816640775","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/el-paso-victor-m-ortiz-gonzalez-9780816640775","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}