Rooted Globalism
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Rooted Globalism

Arabā€“Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries

  1. 286 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Rooted Globalism

Arabā€“Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries

About this book

Does the concept of nationality apply to the economic elite, or have they shed national identities to form a global capitalist class?

In Rooted Globalism, Kevin Funk unpacks dozens of ethnographic interviews he conducted with Latin America's urban-based, Arab-descendant elite class, some of whom also occupy positions of political power in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. Based on extensive fieldwork, Funk illuminates how these elites navigate their Arab ancestry, Latin American host cultures, and roles as protagonists of globalization. With the term "rooted globalism," Funk captures the emergence of classed intersectional identities that are simultaneously local, national, transnational, and global.

Focusing on an oft-ignored axis of South-South relations (between Latin America and the Arab world), Rooted Globalism provides detailed analysis of the identities, worldviews, and motivations of this group and ultimately reveals that rather than obliterating national identities, global capitalism relies on them.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: Capitalism and Class in Global Latin America
  8. 1. Progress and Lacunae in the Study of the ā€œGlobalā€ Capitalist Class
  9. 2. How Latin America Met the Arab World
  10. 3. The Tradition of Dead Generationsā€: On the Persistence of Place-Based Longings
  11. 4. Rootless Globalists? On Denationalization and Globality
  12. 5. The Flat Pluralist World of Business Classā€: On Constructing (and Contesting) Corporate Global Imaginaries
  13. Conclusion: The Future of Global Imaginaries: Thinking Beyond Nativism and Neoliberal Propaganda
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index
  16. About the Author