"High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy" is an ethnography of globalization positioned at the intersection between political economy and cultural studies. Carla Freeman's fieldwork in Barbados grounds the processes of transnational capitalism--production, consumption, and the crafting of modern identities--in the lives of Afro-Caribbean women working in a new high-tech industry called "informatics." It places gender at the center of transnational analysis, and local Caribbean culture and history at the center of global studies.
Freeman examines the expansion of the global...

"High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy" is an ethnography of globalization positioned at the intersection between political economy and cultural studies. Carla Freeman's fieldwork in Barbados grounds the processes of transnational capitalism--production, consumption, and the crafting of modern identities--in the lives of Afro-Caribbean women working in a new high-tech industry called "informatics." It places gender at the center of transnational analysis, and local Caribbean culture and history at the center of global studies.
Freeman examines the expansion of the global...

Sara, the mob boss of Las Vegas, has turned her company into a legitimate corporation, so why is someone trying to bring her down. Sara and Sam Moore must look into their past and take a close look at the present to find the person responsible for the bombing of her Country Club and later the death of her friend. For nine years the Moore family has lived in peace. Who could do such a thing? No one gets away with trying to harm her family and now she must gather her troops and go to war one more time to save their future and their childrens future. There are enough twists and turns to keep you...

Sara Bentley a young P.I. just widowed and on her own has to find the culprit that took her husbands life. She meets Sam Moore a bodyguard that comes into her life and changes the way she thinks about love and happiness. Through the twists and turns she has a difficult time seperating the good guys from the bad. Sara runs into an old childhood friend who helps turn her life around and sends her on an adventure that will change her life forever. You will laugh and love along with Sara and Sam while trying to capture the murderers of her family. Meeting very interesting charactors from the...

Sara and Sam Moore raised two beautiful children, Andrew and Angela, inspite of being the head of the mob underworld. Now the family is legit and has diversified into other businesses. Andrew and Angela have taken over the business to give Mom and Dad a chance to retire. But still memories are forever and grudges eat away until one day their whole world crashes down around them. Sam's sudden and tragic death has put Sara into a deep and depressive grieving period. This hit on the family might be just the cure to get her back into life again. Andrew and Angela have run the family for sometime...

Entrepreneurial Selves is an ethnography of neoliberalism. Bridging political economy and affect studies, Carla Freeman turns a spotlight on the entrepreneur, a figure saluted across the globe as the very embodiment of neoliberalism. Steeped in more than a decade of ethnography on the emergent entrepreneurial middle class of Barbados, she finds dramatic reworkings of selfhood, intimacy, labor, and life amid the rumbling effects of political-economic restructuring. She shows us that the deja vu of neoliberalism, the global hailing of entrepreneurial flexibility and its concomitant...

Entrepreneurial Selves is an ethnography of neoliberalism. Bridging political economy and affect studies, Carla Freeman turns a spotlight on the entrepreneur, a figure saluted across the globe as the very embodiment of neoliberalism. Steeped in more than a decade of ethnography on the emergent entrepreneurial middle class of Barbados, she finds dramatic reworkings of selfhood, intimacy, labor, and life amid the rumbling effects of political-economic restructuring. She shows us that the deja vu of neoliberalism, the global hailing of entrepreneurial flexibility and its concomitant...

At a time when Chinese policy makers appear to be rethinking China's historically close alliance relationship with North Korea, this volume gathers a diverse collection of original essays by some of China's leading experts on North Korea and China's North Korea policy.