Struggle of Non-Sovereign Caribbean Territories
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Activism
Art
Capital accumulation
Caribbean Studies
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Colonial territories
Community
Divide
Eastern Caribbean
Economy
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France
French Guiana
Global relations
Guadeloupe
Identity
Independence
Martinique
Movement
Non-Sovereignty
Politics
Puerto Rico
Socioeconomic exclusion
Territories
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- ISBN 9781978815728
- Weight: 481g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 12 Feb 2021
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 February and March of 2009. They clearly demonstrate the critical role played by community activism, art and media to combat politico-economic policies that generate (un)employment, labor exploitation, and unattended health risks, all made secondary to the supremacy of profit. In the second section, additional scholars provide in-depth analyses of the ways in which an insistence on capital accumulation and centralization instantiated broad hierarchies of market-driven profit, capital accumulation, and economic exploitation upon a range of populations and territories in the wider non-sovereign and nominally sovereign Caribbean from Haiti to the Dutch Antilles to Puerto Rico, reinforcing the racialized patterns of socioeconomic exclusion and privatization long imposed by France on its former colonial territories.
H. ADLAI MURDOCH is professor of Romance Studies and director of Africana Studies at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.
