The Struggle of Non-Sovereign Caribbean Territories : : Neoliberalism since the French Antillean Uprisings of 2009 /

The Struggle of Non-Sovereign Caribbean Territories : : Neoliberalism since the French Antillean Uprisings of 2009 / / ed. by H. Adlai Murdoch.

The Struggle of Non-Sovereign Caribbean Territories is an essay collection made up of two sections; in the first, a group of anglophone and francophone scholars examines the roots, effects and implications of the major social upheaval that shook Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, and Réunion in...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
MitwirkendeR:
Allen, Rose Mary,
Benedicty-Kokken, Alessandra,
Ferdinand, Malcom,
Hardwick, Louise,
Henry, Paget,
Joos, Vincent,
Lazú, Jacqueline,
Mary Allen, Rose,
Murdoch, H. Adlai,
Pierre, Alix,
Sharpe, Michael,
Vété-Congolo, Hanétha,
HerausgeberIn:
Murdoch, H. Adlai,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Critical Caribbean Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 4 b-w images
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Non-sovereignty and the Neoliberal Challenge: Contesting Economic Exploitation in the Eastern Caribbean
  • Part I. Neoliberalism, Identity, and Resistance in the Départements d’Outre-Mer
  • 1. Bridging the Divide to Face the Plantationocene: The Chlordecone Contamination and the 2009 Social Events in Martinique and Guadeloupe
  • 2. From the Film Nèg maron (2004) to the Manifeste pour les “produits” de haute nécessité (2009): Youth Dispossession, General Strikes, and Alternative Economies in the French Caribbean
  • 3. Artists against Exploitation: The L’Herminier Museum Squat as a Demonstration against “la Vie Chère”
  • 4. Martinique, or the Greatness and Weakness of Spontaneity: A View of February 2009
  • 5. Neoliberalism and Caribbean Economies: Martinique, Guadeloupe, and the Exploitative Strategies of Metropolitan Capital
  • Part II. Neoliberalism and the Paradoxes of Non-sovereignty in the Wider Caribbean
  • 6. Criminalization, Punitive Neoliberalism, and the Puerto Rican Independence Movement
  • 7. Developing Disasters: Industrialization, Austerity, and Violence in Haiti since
  • 8. A “New” Antillean DOM Arts Scene, or the Pragmatic Aesthetics of Patience: Artincidence, Annabel Guérédrat, Daniel Goudrouffe, Henri Tauliaut, and Jeannette Ehlers
  • 9. Buskando nos mes: Giving Meaning to National Identity in Curaçao, Past and Present
  • 10. The Parallels and Paradoxes of Postcolonial Sovereignty Games in the Dutch and French Caribbean: The End of the Netherlands Antilles and Construction of New Dutch Caribbean Political Entities and Relations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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