Practices of Resistance in the Caribbean - Narratives, Aesthetics and Politics (Hardcover)

The Caribbean has played a crucial geopolitical role in the Western pursuit of economic dominance, yet Eurocentric research usually treats the Caribbean as a peripheral region, consequently labelling the inhabitants as beings without agency. Examining asymmetrical relations of power in the Greater Caribbean in historical and contemporary perspectives, this volume explores the region's history of resistance and subversion of oppressive structures against the backdrop of the Caribbean's central role for the accumulation of wealth of European and North American actors and the respective dialectics of modernity/coloniality, through a variety of experiences inducing migration, transnational exchange and transculturation. Contributors approach the Caribbean as an empowered space of opposition and agency and focus on perspectives of the region as a place of entanglements with a long history of political and cultural practices of resistance to colonization, inequality, heteronomy, purity, invisibilization, and exploitation. An important contribution to the literature on agency and resistance in the Caribbean, this volume offers a new perspective on the region as a geopolitically, economically and culturally crucial space, and it will interest researchers in the fields of Caribbean politics, literature and heritage, colonialism, entangled histories, global studies perspectives, ethnicity, gender, and migration.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	InterAmerican Research: Contact, Communication, Conflict
Release date:	May 2018
First published:	2017
Editors:	Wiebke Beushausen • Miriam Brandel • Joseph Farquharson • Marius Littschwager • Annika McPherson • Julia Roth
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	290
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-78949-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > General
LSN:	0-415-78949-4
Barcode:	9780415789493

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