Critical Interventions in Caribbean Politics and Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Interventions in Caribbean Politics and Theory write by Brian Meeks. This book was released on 2014-11-27. Critical Interventions in Caribbean Politics and Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These essays by Brian Meeks, a noted public intellectual in the Caribbean, reflect on Caribbean politics, particularly radical politics and ideologies in the postcolonial era. But his essays also explain the peculiarities of the contemporary neo-liberal period while searching for pathways beyond the current plight. In the first chapters, titled “Theoretical Forays,” Meeks makes a conscious attempt to engage with contemporary Caribbean political thought at a moment of flux and search for a relevant theoretical language and style to both explicate the Caribbean’s recent past and confront the difficult conditions of the early twenty-first century. The next part, “Caribbean Questions,” both retrospective and biographical, retraces the author’s own engagement with the University of the West Indies (UWI), the short-lived but influential Caribbean Black Power movement, the work of seminal Trinidadian thinker and activist Lloyd Best, Cuba’s relationship with Jamaica, and the crisis and collapse of the Grenadian Revolution. As evident in its title, “Jamaican Journeys,” the concluding section excerpts and extracts from a longer, more sustained engagement with Jamaican politics and society. Much of Meeks’ argument builds around the notion that Jamaica faces a crucial moment, as the author seeks to chart and explain its convoluted political path and dismal economic performance over the past three decades. Meeks remains surprisingly optimistic as he suggests that despite the emptying of sovereignty in the increasingly globalized world, windows to enhanced human development might open through policies of greater democracy and popular inclusion.
Critical Interventions in Caribbean Politics and Theory
Critical Interventions in Caribbean Politics and Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Interventions in Caribbean Politics and Theory write by Brian Meeks. This book was released on 2019-11-14. Critical Interventions in Caribbean Politics and Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A well-known public intellectual's intense engagement with politics in the contemporary Caribbean
Culture, Politics, Race and Diaspora
Culture, Politics, Race and Diaspora - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Culture, Politics, Race and Diaspora write by Brian Meeks. This book was released on 2007. Culture, Politics, Race and Diaspora available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Stuart Hall, in whose honour this volume is compiled, has made significant contributions to contemporary social and political discourse. Constantly praised for his scholarly prescience, he was at the helm of the forging and definition of the discipline of Cultural Studies and nurtured an entire cadre of young intellectuals who continue to make remarkable contributions in the fields of Cultural Studies and Social Criticism. The essays that constitute this collection, all, in different ways, contend with Hall's methodology, his philosophy, as well as many other dimensions of his rich and textured intellectual career. More importantly however, they serve to reconnect his work to the social context of his island of birth, Jamaica, and the wider Caribbean. "
Narratives of Resistance
Narratives of Resistance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Narratives of Resistance write by Brian Meeks. This book was released on 2000. Narratives of Resistance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An analysis of contemporary social, political and intellectual resistance to hegemony in Caribbean societies. Beginning with the Henry Rebellion in 1960, Brian Meeks shows how popular resistance to domination was manifested in Jamaica and Trinidad until the end of the 20th century.
The Struggle of Non-Sovereign Caribbean Territories
The Struggle of Non-Sovereign Caribbean Territories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Struggle of Non-Sovereign Caribbean Territories write by H. Adlai Murdoch. This book was released on 2021-02-12. The Struggle of Non-Sovereign Caribbean Territories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
