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Title The struggle of non-sovereign Caribbean territories : neoliberalism since the French Antillean Uprisings of 2009 / edited by H. Adlai Murdoch
Published New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (v, 425 pages) : illustrations
Series Critical Caribbean studies
Critical Caribbean studies.
Contents Introduction: Non-sovereignty and the neoliberal challenge : contesting economic exploitation in the Eastern Caribbean / H. Adlai Murdoch -- Bridging the divide to face the Plantationocene : the chlordecone contamination and the 2009 social events in Martinique and Guadeloupe / Malcom Ferdinand -- From the film Nèg maron (2005) to the Manifeste pour les 'produits' de haute nécessité (2009) : youth dispossession, general strikes and alternative economies in the French Caribbean / Louise Hardwick -- Artists against exploitation : The L'Herminier Museum Squat as a demonstration against "La vie chère" / Alix Pierre -- Martinique or the greatness and weakness of spontaneity : a view of February 2009 / Hanétha Vété-Congolo -- Neoliberalism and Caribbean economies : Martinique, Guadeloupe and the exploitative strategies of metropolitan capital / H. Adlai Murdoch and Paget Henry -- Criminalization, punitive neoliberalism and the Puerto Rican independence movement / Jacqueline Lazú -- Developing disasters : industrialization, austerity, and violence in Haiti since 1915 / Vincent Joos -- A 'New' Antillean DOM arts scene, or the pragmatic aesthetics of patience : artincidence, Annabel Guérédrat, Daniel Goudrouffe, and Henri Tauliaut / Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken -- Buskando nos mes : giving meaning to national identity in Curaçao, past and present / Rose Mary Allen -- 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 / Michael Sharpe
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Neoliberalism -- Caribbean Area
Sovereignty.
sovereignty.
Economic history.
Neoliberalism.
Politics and government.
Sovereignty.
SUBJECT Caribbean Area -- Economic conditions -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85020286
Caribbean Area -- Politics and government -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85020290
Subject Caribbean Area.
Form Electronic book
Author Murdoch, H. Adlai, editor.
Allen, Rose Mary
Benedicty-Kokken, Alessandra
Ferdinand, Malcom
Hardwick, Louise
Henry, Paget
Joos, Vincent
Lazú, Jacqueline
Pierre, Alix
Sharpe, Michael
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