... suffer at the hands of not just the local banking system, but the international politics of debt and structural adjustment. 4 This is also an interesting line to consider how the position of the narrator is defined by the “certain turn” somehow avoided that has led to a different class standing...

... relief, femicide, and policing, this article attends to deep histories of slavery, revolt, and marronage as resources for a feminist rejection of the liberal notions of freedom that make indebtedness possible. Copyright © 2020 Smith College 2020 debt marronage globalization structural...

... that this catastrophe is perpetrated with the approval of the Sri Lankan government is a recognizable and predictable consequence of the current manifestation of structural adjustment programs, neo-liberal economic ideology, and globalism. The result is that many Third World governments are compelled to sell off...

... and services, and a global supply chain driven by oligopolistic business practices. A global culture is seen as composite and heterogeneous, yet is increasingly homogeneous and predictable because of cultural imperialism and structural adjustments. Globalization is also an unequal process that reinvigorates...

... traditions even as they practice them. As John Hutnyk points out, the Orientalizing nostalgia of "Asian cool" in Britain insidiously denies that "India is subject to ongoing participation in capitalist production, structural adjustment programmes, tourist and service industry expansion, satellite...

... as structural adjustment, privatization, and international investment but on those figures that are defined as deviant and threatening because of their lack of "propriety" and "morality," such as sexualized women, prostitutes, and homosexuals (Alexander 1994). The emergence of a specifically East Indian...

... and structural adjustment” (97). What is more, Shoemaker notes, Kincaid is equally critical of Antiguan peoples complicity with colonialism’s erasures, writing “ . . . they are governed by corrupt men, . . . [and] these corrupt men have given their country away to corrupt foreigners” (Kincaid [1988] 2001 : 50...

... produce between women, particularly black women and 34 MERIDIANS 14:1 white women in Brazil. The same thing can be said regarding the intragroup race and gender solidarity that drove black women to demand that gender issues become a structural element within the discourse about racial inequality that sets...

... structures and practices. Drawing heavily upon the work of Patricia Hill Collins, this article defines and explains black feminist critical pedagogy arguing that it is a critical knowledge project that generates knowledge and creates theories that allow for analysis, critique, and evaluation of how black...

.... For example, Valentine Moghadam (1996) argues that transnational networks are organizing women around the most pressing questions of the day: reproductive rights, the growth of religious fundamentalism, and the adverse effects of structural adjustment policies. Moghadam also comments favorably on the recent...

... range of issues from the vantage point of the impact of structural adjustment policies on women in other parts of the world. How are women's lives affected by the policies of the World Bank and the IMF? And how do women look at issues of work in the informal sector, trafficking in women, violence...

.... We have also had to engage discourses on debt, Structural Adjustment Programs, the environment, HIV/AIDS, etc. The use of generalized categories thus becomes necessary for a solidarity front against persistent and transforming Euro-Western, global economic, cultural, and political forces...

..., such as the U.S. and Britain, and has brought about structural adjustment in the countries of the southern region. As social programs in the U.S. have been drastically curtailed, imprisonment has simultaneously become the most self-evident response to many of the social problems previously addressed...

... with them reveal their encounters with gender relations, abuse, and cultural adjustment. Their testimonies brimmed with negative experiences, but a silver lining emerged: contrary to research that finds women competitive and subversive in their relations with one another, these interviewees reported...

... to feel again and my mind to gain clarity around what is happening. Where am I? Is it time to get up? Really? As I adjust to the light of morning, my gaze lands upon Blue Monday a painting of a Black women sitting on the edge of her bed, shoulders and head slumped, preparing for another day. The famous...

..., such as the U.S. and Britain, and has brought about structural adjustment in the countries of the southern region. As social programs in the U.S. have been drastically curtailed, imprisonment has simultaneously become the most self-evident response to many of the social problems previously addressed...

... of environmental racism; 2. Identify and critique social structures that contribute to environmental injustices; 3. Analyze the physical, emotional, psychological, and societal impacts of environmental racism; 4. Demonstrate empathy in exploring the experiences ofindividuals affected by environmental racism; 5...

...: in the workspace, on the way to work, and in the domestic space (S. Halim and A. Haq 2004). In sum, the changing gendered social order, continuing devaluation of women as women, globalization, and structural adjustment policies of the 168 ELORA HALIM CHOWDHURY government have contributed to the precipitation...

... that sex tourism has become vital to the national economies (Truong 1990, Lim 1998). With the economic restructuring that many former Third World countries have been forced to accept under International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank dictates-so-called structural adjustment programs that 32 KAMALA...

... for assistance. But the structural adjustment policies instituted in the early 1980s only served to increase the widespread shortages of basic foods. So, in 1983 the WPA began a multi-fronted assault against the legitimacy of the food policy. Andaiye and the other women of the WPAwere integrally involved...