Caribbean sovereignty, development and democracy in an age of globalization /

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Imprint:New York, NY : Routledge, 2013.
Description:x, 257 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Routledge advances in international relations and global politics ; 100
Routledge advances in international relations and global politics ; 100.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9027461
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Other authors / contributors:Lewis, Linden, 1953-
ISBN:9780415536585 (hbk)
0415536588 (hbk)
9780203110317 (ebk)
0203110315 (ebk)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Sovereignty, Heterodoxy, and the Last Desperate Shibboleth of Caribbean Nationalism
  • Part I. Neoliberalism and the Paradox of Sovereignty in the Caribbean
  • 1. Class, Power, Sovereignty: Haiti Before and After the Earthquake
  • 2. Transnational Capitalist Globalization and the Limits of Sovereignty: State, Security, Order, Violence and the Caribbean
  • 3. The Dissolution of the Myth of Sovereignty in the Caribbean
  • 4. Dependent Capitalism and the Challenge to Democracy and Sovereignty in the Caribbean
  • Part II. Arrested Development and the Cultural Turn
  • 5. The "Myth" of Development: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago
  • 6. Paradoxical Sovereignty: Imagining Caribbean Futures
  • 7. Sovereignty/Intimacy: Political Openings in Contemporary Jamaica
  • Part III. Caribbean Futures: Democracy Imperiled
  • 8. Curaàoans on the Question of Home: The Lure of Autochthony and Its Alternatives
  • 9. Non-Sovereign Futures? French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment
  • 10. Jamaica on the Cusp of Fifty: Wither Nationalism and Sovereignty?
  • Afterword