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  • Race, Class, and Nationalism in the Twenty-First-Century Caribbean

    by Dylan Kerrigan, Stanley H. Griffin, Juan Vicente Iborra-Mallent, Kimberly Palmer, Antonia Mungal, Maria Therese Gomes, Julio Cesar Guanche Zaldivar, Maikel Pons Giralt, Amilcar Sanatan, Gerald Stell, Savrina Chinien, Nadia Whiteman-Charles, Brendan Jamal Thornton, Diego I. Ubiera, Jerome Teelucksingh, Duane Edwards, Jack Menke, Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente, Annita Montoute ...
    This collection of more than a dozen essays focuses on the political dynamics of race, class, and nationalism in the contemporary Caribbean. Despite the plethora of studies on nationalism in the Caribbean, few have attempted to look at the phenomenon as a political invention that does not—and cannot—serve the interests of all: how essentialist, reductive, overdetermining nationalism is a political ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Creole Cultures, Vol. 2

    Creole Identity and Language Representations

    Edited by Morgan Dalphinis, Duane Edwards, Michael M. Kretzer, Violet Cuffy ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This edited book considers the significance of creole cultures within current, changing global contexts located within post-colonial and developing states. It also examines safeguarding the languages and cultural practices that sustain creole identities.The concept of Creolity as approached through the different lenses of postcolonial studies, history, and anthropology is used here to consider the ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • Ethnic Stratification and Structural Pluralism in Guyana

    by Duane Edwards ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Through a case study of Guyana, a society in which structural pluralism and ethnic/racial divisions coincide to a large extent, this book explores the specific way in which social structures interact with and affect social institutions, ethnic stratification, social actions, and both group-based and purportedly universalist ideologies. The book examines how a system of differentiation and ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Guyana at a Crossroads

    Diversity, Vulnerable Sub-Groups and the Promise of Development

    Edited by Paulette Henry, Dionne Frank, Duane Edwards, Dianna DaSilva-Glasgow ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines the current needs of identified vulnerable sub-groups in Guyana, including children under the care of the state, persons living with disabilities, and migrant children. This book interrogates some of these issues in light of the changing social landscape that has been driven by the effects of colonial histories and recent economic change. It approaches these topics from a ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

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  • The Caribbean City

    by Rivke Jaffe (Editor) ...
    Caribbean cities are a unique yet underexposed phenomenon. Their distinctiveness results from a combination of interrelated factors including a history of slavery, development under the hemispheric hegemony of the United States and spatial limitations imposed by the setting of most Caribbean urban areas. This innovative volume presents a detailed introduction to the spatial, socio-cultural and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • New Caribbean Thought: A Reader

    Edited by Brian Meeks, Folke Lindahl ...
    This interdisciplinary collection is the first to cross traditionally restrictive disciplinary barriers to address the tough questions that face the Caribbean. ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Transformations in Independent Timor-Leste

    Dynamics of Social and Cultural Cohabitations

    Edited by Susana de Matos Viegas, Rui Feijó ...
    Series series Routledge/City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asia Series
    1999 was a decisive year in the long history of the people of Timor-Leste, whose future was open when they voted for independence in a UN-sponsored referendum. Its results left no doubt that the Timorese considered themselves to be a nation wishing to have their own state, which they would rule.This book examines a vast array of transformations that have taken place over the past decades. It puts ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Activists beyond Borders

    Advocacy Networks in International Politics

    by Margaret E. Keck, Kathryn A. Sikkink ...
    Valuable reading for anyone concerned with contemporary dynamics of social change. â• International AffairsMargaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular states. ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Ethnicity, Inc.

    by John L. Comaroff, Jean Comaroff ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
    In Ethnicity, Inc. anthropologists John L. and Jean Comaroff analyze a new moment in the history of human identity: its rampant commodification. Through a wide-ranging exploration of the changing relationship between culture and the market, they address a pressing question: Wherein lies the future of ethnicity?Their account begins in South Africa, with the incorporation of an ethno-business in ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Creole Indigeneity

    Between Myth and Nation in the Caribbean

    by Shona N. Jackson ...
    Series series First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies
    During the colonial period in Guyana, the country’s coastal lands were worked by enslaved Africans and indentured Indians. In Creole Indigeneity, Shona N. Jackson investigates how their descendants, collectively called Creoles, have remade themselves as Guyana’s new natives, displacing indigenous peoples in the Caribbean through an extension of colonial attitudes and policies.Looking particularly ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • How to Think Like an Anthropologist

    by Matthew Engelke ...
    From an award-winning anthropologist, a lively accessible, and at times irreverent introduction to the subjectWhat is anthropology? What can it tell us about the world? Why, in short, does it matter? For well over a century, cultural anthropologists have circled the globe, from Papua New Guinea to suburban England and from China to California, uncovering surprising facts and insights about how ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Razing Africville

    A Geography of Racism

    by Jennifer Nelson ...
    In the 1960s, the city of Halifax razed the black community of Africville under a program of urban renewal and 'slum clearance.' The city defended its actions by citing the deplorable living conditions in Africville, ignoring its own role in the creation of these conditions through years of neglect and the refusal of essential services. In the 1980s, the city created a park on Africville's former ... Read more

    $36.99 USD