Economics and Business

The Tourist State Performing Leisure, Liberalism, and Race in New Zealand Margaret Werry 2011 Fall

Examining the role of performance in state-making

Dubai, the City as Corporation Ahmed Kanna 2011 Spring

The politics of space and culture in Dubai in the first decade of the twenty-first century

Brand Aid Shopping Well to Save the World Lisa Ann Richey and Stefano Ponte 2011 Spring

A critical account of the rise of celebrity-driven “compassionate consumption”

OurSpace Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture Christine Harold 2009 Spring

Culture jamming is so twentieth century! What’s next?

Beaches, Ruins, Resorts The Politics of Tourism in the Arab World Waleed Hazbun 2008 Fall

How Arab states use tourism for their own ends

Latin American Neostructuralism The Contradictions of Post-Neoliberal Development Fernando Ignacio Leiva 2008 Fall

Interrogates this ascending political and economic paradigm

Logics of Empowerment Development, Gender, and Governance in Neoliberal India Aradhana Sharma 2008 Fall

A critical look at the globally dominant development strategy of “empowerment”

Invested Interests Capital, Culture, and the World Bank Bret Benjamin 2007 Spring

Exposes the global cultural impact of the World Bank

Freedom of Expression® Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property Kembrew McLeod 2007 Spring

Winner of the American Library Association’s Oboler Award for best scholarship in the area of intellectual freedom

Money and Liberation The Micropolitics of Alternative Currency Movements Peter North 2007 Spring

A firsthand view of local currencies that are providing alternatives to global capital

Unraveling the Garment Industry Transnational Organizing and Women’s Work Ethel C. Brooks 2007 Spring

The consequences—both positive and negative—of consumer boycotts of sweatshop labor.

India’s New Middle Class Democratic Politics in an Era of Economic Reform Leela Fernandes 2006 Fall

Inside the emergence of India’s rapidly expanding middle class

Pink Ribbons, Inc. Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy Samantha King 2008 Spring

Challenges the corporatization of the search for a breast cancer cure

Mangos, Chiles, and Truckers The Business of Transnationalism Robert R. Alvarez Jr. 2005 Fall

Examines the effects of global capital on both sides of the U.S.–Mexico border

Ramona Memories Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California Dydia DeLyser 2005 Spring

How the heroine of a nineteenth-century romance novel pervades southern California’s regional identity

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