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 aspirations on one hand and a facilitator
of global capital on the other.
Joseph examines six critical phases in the St. Lucian
experience. The first is 1940 to 1970, when the early nationalist
movement gradually occupied state power within a framework of
limited self-government. The second period is 1970 to 1982 during
which formal independence was attained and an attempt at
socialist-oriented radical nationalism was pursued by the St. Lucia
Labor Party. The third distinctive period was the period of
neoliberal hegemony, 1982-1990. The fourth period (1990-1997)
witnessed a heightened process of neoliberal adjustment in global
trade which destroyed the banana industry and transformed the
domestic political economy. A later period (1997-2006) involved the
SLP's return to political power, resulting in tensions between an
earlier radicalism and a new and contradictory accommodation to
global neoliberalism. The final period (2006-2010) coincides with
the onset of a crisis in global neoliberalism during which a series
of domestic conflicts reflected the contradictions of the dominant
understanding of sovereignty in narrow, materialist terms at the
expense of its wider antisystematic, progressive, and emancipator
connotations.
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