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Language
English (en)
Date of Award
4-1-2012
Author's Department
International and Area Studies
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (A.B.)
Restricted/Unrestricted
Restricted
Abstract
As the world economy expands the impacts of the process of globalization are becoming increasingly visible in communities that are not often associated with globalization or were once thought to have been immune from its consequences. This is especially true in communities in the United States. The recent initiative led by businessmen and political leaders in St. Louis, Missouri to create an international freight-forwarding hub at the city’s airport has brought the process.of globalization into focus and into the public dialogue of development strategies in a major American urban center. This study utilizes geographic, ethnographic, and sociological methods to examine the intersection of the process of globalization with small-scale, grass roots development efforts in St. Louis. The study reveals how the process of insertion into a global commodity chain is constructed as a development strategy and how the process of insertion contributes to income polarization associated with globalization. Most 'significantly this study contributes to the understanding globalization by filling a gap in academic literature with a detailed examination of the creation of negative externalities of development strategies called “roads not taken” during the process of globalization.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7936/zgs8-fn02
Mentor
Brett Gustafson
Recommended Citation
Sable-Smith, Bram, "The Road Not Taken: China, Globalization, and the Development of St. Louis" (2012). Senior Honors Papers / Undergraduate Theses. 148.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.7936/zgs8-fn02
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