Introduction to Caribbean Politics

Introduction to Caribbean Politics
Author: Cynthia Barrow-Giles
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

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An introductory text for students of Caribbean Politics. It provides a broad historical sweep from the slave era to the contemporary period, characterised by issues of structural adjustments and globalisation, and in between, the years of worker revolt and protest. The text is structured and presented around a number of core concepts used to analyse Caribbean politics and political systems.

Women in Caribbean Politics

Women in Caribbean Politics
Author: Cynthia Barrow-Giles
Publisher:
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2011
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9789766370831

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"Historically, women have been under-represented in politics. Patriarchal political parties, debilitating customs and discriminatory selection processes, and obstructionist attitudes have generally contributed to the inability of women to enter mainstream political life in a significant way. In Women in Caribbean Politics Cynthia Barrow-Giles and her co-contributors profile 20 of the most influential women in modern Caribbean politics who have struggled and excelled, in spite of the obstacles. Divided into four parts, this volume looks at women who led the struggle for freedom; those who agitated for equal rights and justice in the pre-independence period; postcolonial trailblazers; as well as a group which Cynthia Barrow-Giles refers to as Women CEOs. The profiles cover women from 12 territories, with varying political, ethnic and socio-economic issues. Anyone with an interest in Caribbean Politics or Gender Studies will find Women in Caribbean Politics to be an excellent introduction. For students and teachers, it will be a valuable resource, as it highlights some of the little-known stories of Caribbean women who have set the foundation for, and continue to help to shape the identity of their nations and the region on a whole. "

An Introduction to Politics

An Introduction to Politics
Author: Trevor Munroe
Publisher: Canoe Press (IL)
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2002
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789768125798

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This introduction to politics is designed for first-year students in social sciences and for the general reader interested in the basics of contemporary politic. The text's various sections and lecture summaries deal with the important areas of political science, different systems of democratic government, the fall of communism and post-communist politics, as well as issues in Caribbean politics such as globalization, constitutional reform and regional integration.

Modern Caribbean Politics

Modern Caribbean Politics
Author: Anthony Payne
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1993-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801844355

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A successor volume to the editors' Dependency under Challenge: The Political Economy of the Commonwealth Caribbean (Manchester U. Press, 1984), this volume reviews political and economic developments of the 1980s not just in the Commonwealth Caribbean but in the whole of the Caribbean region, in original analyses by specialist scholars in the field of Caribbean studies. Paper edition (unseen), $15.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Non-Sovereign Futures

Non-Sovereign Futures
Author: Yarimar Bonilla
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 022628395X

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As an overseas department of France, Guadeloupe is one of a handful of non-independent societies in the Caribbean that seem like political exceptions—or even paradoxes—in our current postcolonial era. In Non-Sovereign Futures, Yarimar Bonilla wrestles with the conceptual arsenal of political modernity—challenging contemporary notions of freedom, sovereignty, nationalism, and revolution—in order to recast Guadeloupe not as a problematically non-sovereign site but as a place that can unsettle how we think of sovereignty itself. Through a deep ethnography of Guadeloupean labor activism, Bonilla examines how Caribbean political actors navigate the conflicting norms and desires produced by the modernist project of postcolonial sovereignty. Exploring the political and historical imaginaries of activist communities, she examines their attempts to forge new visions for the future by reconfiguring narratives of the past, especially the histories of colonialism and slavery. Drawing from nearly a decade of ethnographic research, she shows that political participation—even in failed movements—has social impacts beyond simple material or economic gains. Ultimately, she uses the cases of Guadeloupe and the Caribbean at large to offer a more sophisticated conception of the possibilities of sovereignty in the postcolonial era.

Practices of Resistance in the Caribbean

Practices of Resistance in the Caribbean
Author: Wiebke Beushausen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2018-04-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351838776

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The Caribbean has played a crucial geopolitical role in the Western pursuit of economic dominance, yet Eurocentric research usually treats the Caribbean as a peripheral region, consequently labelling the inhabitants as beings without agency. Examining asymmetrical relations of power in the Greater Caribbean in historical and contemporary perspectives, this volume explores the region’s history of resistance and subversion of oppressive structures against the backdrop of the Caribbean’s central role for the accumulation of wealth of European and North American actors and the respective dialectics of modernity/coloniality, through a variety of experiences inducing migration, transnational exchange and transculturation. Contributors approach the Caribbean as an empowered space of opposition and agency and focus on perspectives of the region as a place of entanglements with a long history of political and cultural practices of resistance to colonization, inequality, heteronomy, purity, invisibilization, and exploitation. An important contribution to the literature on agency and resistance in the Caribbean, this volume offers a new perspective on the region as a geopolitically, economically and culturally crucial space, and it will interest researchers in the fields of Caribbean politics, literature and heritage, colonialism, entangled histories, global studies perspectives, ethnicity, gender, and migration.

Obeah and Other Powers

Obeah and Other Powers
Author: Diana Paton
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2012-04-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822351331

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This collection looks at Caribbean religious history from the late 18th century to the present including obeah, vodou, santeria, candomble, and brujeria. The contributors examine how these religions have been affected by many forces including colonialism, law, race, gender, class, state power, media represenation, and the academy.

Foundations of Caribbean Politics

Foundations of Caribbean Politics
Author: Robert Buddan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2001
Genre: Caribbean Area
ISBN:

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Introduction: Studying the Caribbean -- Political geography : one size does not fit all -- Political history : patterns of colonialism and 'the Barbados model' -- Political culture : between black power, bleaching and 'browning' -- Political leadership : street agitators and intellectuals -- Political traditions : the roots of autocracy and democracy -- Searching for freedom : from slave to civil societies -- Postcolonial states : substance or symbolism? -- The Caribbean abroad : colonisation in reverse.

Critical Interventions in Caribbean Politics and Theory

Critical Interventions in Caribbean Politics and Theory
Author: Brian Meeks
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-11-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781496825650

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A well-known public intellectual's intense engagement with politics in the contemporary Caribbean