The devil wears dockers: Devil pacts, trade zones, and rural-urban ties in the dominican republic

Lauren Derby; Marion Werner

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The devil wears dockers: Devil pacts, trade zones, and rural-urban ties in the dominican republic

Lauren Derby
, Marion Werner

Geography

University of California at Los Angeles

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This essay examines popular narratives that a spirit demon or bacá lurked in an export garment plant in the Santiago trade zone of the Dominican Republic in the early 2000s. By interpreting the bacá story, and the transformation of the bacá itself from a rural context to an urban factory, we unpack the changing nature and meaning of employment under neoliberal capitalism, and tease apart complex geographies of status, exploitation, technology and debt.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	294-321
Number of pages	28
Journal	NWIG New West Indian Guide
Volume	87
Issue number	3-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/22134360-12340109
State	Published - 2013

Keywords

Dominican republic
Haiti
Sorcery
Trade zone

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