Conceptual issues : sovereignty, nationalism, and independence in the era of global neoliberalism -- Tentative anticolonialism : implications for decolonization under globalization, 1940-1970 -- The politics of St. Lucian decolonization, 1970-1982 -- St. Lucia under global neoliberal hegemony, 1982-1990 -- Deepening globalization and the unmaking of the postcolonial order, 1990-1997 -- Global neoliberalism and the Left agenda, 1997-2006 -- "Sovereignty for sale" : domestic politics and international relations in the early twenty-first century, 2006-2010
Summary
Tennyson S.D. Joseph builds upon current research on the anticolonial and nationalist experience in the Caribbean. He explores the impact of global transformation upon the independent experience of St. Lucia and argues that the island's formal decolonization roughly coincided with the period of the rise of global neoliberalism hegemony. Consequently, the concept of "limited sovereignty" became the defining feature of St. Lucia's understanding of the possibilities of independence. Central to the analysis is the tension between the role of the state as a facilitator of domestic aspira