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Author Meeks, Brian.

Title Envisioning Caribbean futures : Jamaican perspectives / Brian Meeks
Published Kingston, Jamaica : University of West Indies Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 203 pages)
Contents Introduction: Social living -- Explorations in new Caribbean thought -- Jamaica in a time of neo-liberal infatuation -- Imagining the future -- Conclusion: Solidarity
Summary Employing critical analysis of Caribbean intellectual thought and of the postcolonial political economy, Brian Meeks sets about proposing a manifesto for the future. What emerges is a programme for the medium term, which is pragmatic in its efforts to deal with the current crisis without engaging in the romanticism of an all-encompassing revolutionary transformation. Meeks suggests a form of participatory reorganization without, necessarily, dismantling the fundamentals of formal democratic organization. Particular emphasis is placed on rural agro-producers because their empowerment, politically and economically, resolves the problem of elite domination while creating the conditions for economic democracy. He argues, finally, that the proposals can become the basis for a more fundamental social and intellectual transformation from, following Sylvia Wynter, "man" to "human," based on democracy, community and solidarity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-194) and index
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Subject Postmodernism -- Jamaica
Democracy -- Jamaica
Political culture -- Jamaica
Democracy.
Economic history.
Economic policy.
Political culture.
Politics and government.
Postmodernism.
Social conditions.
SUBJECT Jamaica -- Politics and government -- 1962- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069318
Jamaica -- Economic conditions
Jamaica -- Economic policy
Jamaica -- Social conditions
Subject Jamaica.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9766402000
9789766402006