BOOK REVIEW FORUM Global Displacements: The Making of Uneven Development in the Caribbean By Marion Werner, Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. Xii and 215 pp., maps, figures, notes, bibliography, index, ISBN 9781118941980 Paperback $34.95 Fabrics of Uneven Development and the Seams of Global Studies: An Introductory Commentary by Matthew Sparke, Geography and Integrated Social Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA How, in the present, have the lands of no one emerged and normalized a mode of organizing the planet according to life and lifelessness? Katherine McKittrick (2013) He was staring out at the impounded waters of the Artibonite. They stretched off to the east and the west and out of sight among the mountains. From here the amount of land the dam had drowned seemed vast. Still gazing, [Paul] Farmer said, “To understand Russia, to understand Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Boston, identity politics, Sri Lanka and Life Savers, you have to be on top of this hill.” The list was clearly jocular. So was his tone. But I had the feeling he had said something important. I thought I got it, generally. This view of drowned farmland, the result of a dam that had made his patients some of the poorest of the poor, was a lens on the world. His lens. Look through it and you’d begin to see all the world’s impoverished in their billions and the many linked causes of their misery. Tracy Kidder (2004)