This edited collection examines the realities of the last remnants
of the European colonial empires in the Caribbean, namely the
British, Dutch and French overseas territories. Although known and
perhaps infamous for their role as high-end tourist destinations
and financial centres, these small jurisdictions are complex and
multifaceted places. While this volume considers their role as
financial centres, it does so from alternative and original
perspectives by examining how the sector shapes the internal
dynamics of these Caribbean societies, and how it is itself shaped
by global trends. A range of contributions is included that
highlight other key issues. Political relations between the
territories and their metropolitan centres and with the European
Union are the focus of several chapters, highlighting the stresses
and strains, and in many cases the unfulfilled expectations of
devolved governance. Further chapters describe the economic
instability and factors of political conflict faced by some of
these societies and the available options to address them. Finally,
several chapters reflect more specifically on the territories'
internal social and ethnic dynamics, and the hierarchies and
inequalities that result. Bringing together a variety of different
disciplinary perspectives, from political science to sociology, and
from anthropology to geography, this book will be of great interest
to any academic or student who wishes to see how an often
overlooked part of the world is actually a key site of
socio-economic transformation and a crucial nexus in global
affairs. Sebastien Chauvin is a sociologist and an Associate
Professor at the Institut des Sciences Sociales at the University
of Lausanne, Switzerland. His research deals with immigration,
citizenship, gender, sexuality, law and labour in France and the
USA. With Bruno Cousin, he has also developed a multi-sited
research programme on social and symbolic capital and the cultural
sociology of economic elites, with a focus on Western Europe (elite
male social club sociability), the Caribbean region
(Saint-Barthelemy), and new forms of conspicuous consumption among
the global super-rich. His other ongoing writing explores the
intersections of race, nationalism, sexuality and citizenship in
the Netherlands, France and the USA. Peter Clegg is Associate
Professor in Politics and Head of the Department of Health and
Social Sciences at the University of the West of England, Bristol,
UK. He was formerly Visiting Research Fellow at both KITLV/Royal
Netherlands Institute of South East Asian and Caribbean Studies,
Leiden, Netherlands, and at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of
Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), University of the West
Indies, Jamaica. His main research interests focus on contemporary
developments within the United Kingdom Overseas Territories and the
international political economy of the Caribbean. Bruno Cousin is
Assistant Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po, France, and an
affiliate of the Centre of European Studies and Comparative
Politics (CEE), France. Previously, he was Assistant Professor at
the University of Lille, France, and Postdoctoral Research Fellow
at Harvard University, USA, and has held visiting positions at NYU,
the University of Amsterdam and Birkbeck. His research interests
focus on class relations, residential segregation, social capital
and forms of bourgeois sociability, and the modes of elites'
legitimization. He is currently conducting research with Sebastien
Chauvin on Saint-Barthelemy (French West Indies), whose first
results have been published in Ethnologie francaise and Geographies
of the Super-Rich (2013), and he has recently co-authored Ce que
les riches pensent des pauvres (2017).
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