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Book Synopsis Caribbean Land and Development Revisited by : J. Besson
Download or read book Caribbean Land and Development Revisited written by J. Besson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-06-25 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is an interdisciplinary collection of fifteen essays, with an editorial introduction, on a range of territories in the Commonwealth, Francophone, and Hispanic Caribbean. The authors focus on land and development, providing fresh perspectives through a collection of international contributing authors.
Book Synopsis Ageing and Intergenerational Relations by : Misa Izuhara
Download or read book Ageing and Intergenerational Relations written by Misa Izuhara and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting book explores the exchange of societal support between generations. It also examines variations in contemporary practices and rationales in different regions and societies around the world. The book draws on theoretical perspectives and empirical analysis to discuss both newly emerging patterns of family reciprocity, as well as more established ones which are affected by changing opportunities and pressures in contemporary societies. It is highly international and comparative in nature, covering the US, Europe, East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Thailand.
Book Synopsis "Institutional Mechanisms for Coastal Resource Management and Protection in St. Lucia" by : Paul Lorah
Download or read book "Institutional Mechanisms for Coastal Resource Management and Protection in St. Lucia" written by Paul Lorah and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Slipping Away written by Mark Moberg and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During the 1990s, the Eastern Caribbean was caught in a bitter trade dispute between the US and EU over the European banana market. When the World Trade Organization rejected preferential access for Caribbean growers in 1998 the effect on the region's rural communities was devastating. This volume examines the "banana wars" from the vantage point of St. Lucia's Mabouya Valley, whose recent, turbulent history reveals the impact of global forces. The author investigates how the contemporary structure of the island's banana industry originated in colonial policies to create a politically "stable" peasantry. followed by politicians' efforts to mobilize rural voters. These political strategies left farmers dependent on institutional and market protection, leaving them vulnerable to any alteration in trade policy. This history gave way to a new harsh reality, in which neoliberal policies privilege price and quantity over human rights and the environment. However. against these challenges, the author shows how the rural poor have responded in creative ways, including new social movements and Fair Trade farming, in order to negotiate a stronger position for themselves in a shifting global economy."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Decolonization in St. Lucia by : Tennyson S. D. Joseph
Download or read book Decolonization in St. Lucia written by Tennyson S. D. Joseph and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 anti-systematic, progressive, and emancipator connotations.
Book Synopsis A Home Away from Home by : Tyesha Maddox
Download or read book A Home Away from Home written by Tyesha Maddox and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Home Away from Home examines the significance of Caribbean American mutual aid societies and benevolent associations to the immigrant experience, particularly their implications for the formation of a Pan-Caribbean American identity and Black diasporic politics. At the turn of the twentieth century, New York City exploded with the establishment of mutual aid societies and benevolent associations. Caribbean immigrants, especially women, eager to find their place in a bustling new world, created these organizations, including the West Indian Benevolent Association of New York City, founded in 1884. They served as forums for discussions on Caribbean American affairs, hosted cultural activities, and provided newly arrived immigrants with various forms of support, including job and housing assistance, rotating lines of credit, help in the naturalization process, and its most popular function—sickness and burial assistance. In examining the number of these organizations, their membership, and the functions they served, Tyesha Maddox argues that mutual aid societies not only fostered a collective West Indian ethnic identity among immigrants from specific islands, but also strengthened kinship networks with those back home in the Caribbean. Especially important to these processes were Caribbean women such as Elizabeth Hendrickson, co-founder of the American West Indian Ladies’ Aid Society in 1915 and the Harlem Tenants’ League in 1928. Immigrant involvement in mutual aid societies also strengthened the belief that their own fate was closely intertwined with the social, economic, and political welfare of the Black international community. A Home Away from Home demonstrates how Caribbean American mutual aid societies and benevolent associations in many ways became proto-Pan-Africanist organizations.
Book Synopsis The Political Ecology of Bananas by : Lawrence S. Grossman
Download or read book The Political Ecology of Bananas written by Lawrence S. Grossman and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of banana contract farming in the Eastern Caribbean explores the forces that shape contract-farming enterprises everywhere--capital, the state, and the environment. Employing the increasingly popular framework of political ecology, which highlights the dynamic linkages between political-economic forces and human-environment relationships, Lawrence Grossman provides a new perspective on the history and contemporary trajectory of the Windward Islands banana industry. He reveals in rich detail the myriad impacts of banana production on the peasant laborers of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Grossman challenges the conventional wisdom on three interrelated issues central to contract farming and political ecology. First, he analyzes the process of deskilling and the associated significance of control by capital and the state over peasant labor. Second, he investigates the impacts of contract farming for export on domestic food production and food import dependency. And third, he examines the often misunderstood problem of pesticide misuse. Grossman's findings lead to a reconsideration of broader debates concerning the relevance of research on industrial restructuring and globalization for the analysis of agrarian change. Most important, his work emphasizes that we must pay greater attention to the fundamental significance of the "environmental rootedness" of agriculture in studies of political ecology and contract farming.
Book Synopsis The Contemporary Caribbean by : Robert B. Potter
Download or read book The Contemporary Caribbean written by Robert B. Potter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text focuses on the contemporary economic, social, geographical, environmental and political realities of the Caribbean region. Historical aspects of the Caribbean, such as slavery, the plantation system and plantocracy are explored in order to explain the contemporary nature of, and challenges faced by, the Caribbean. The book is divided into three parts, dealing respectively with: the foundations of the Caribbean, rural and urban bases of the contemporary Caribbean, and global restructuring and the Caribbean: industry, tourism and politics.
Book Synopsis A Partially Annotated Bibliography of Agricultural Development in the Caribbean Region by : Clarence Zuvekas
Download or read book A Partially Annotated Bibliography of Agricultural Development in the Caribbean Region written by Clarence Zuvekas and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Urban Caribbean in an Era of Global Change by : Robert B. Potter
Download or read book The Urban Caribbean in an Era of Global Change written by Robert B. Potter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author’s first hand field research, this book addresses the twin processes of urbanization and globalization as they affect the contemporary Caribbean region. One of the key aims of the book is to focus attention on the fact that contrary to popular perceptions, the Caribbean is highly urbanized. Indeed statistics show that the region is more highly urbanized than the world taken as a whole. In addition, the fact that the Caribbean region has always been affected by processes of globalization, in respect of its economy, polity and society, is central to the text. The chapters cover pressing topics such as urban change and the evolution of mini-metropolitan regions, the importance of the mercantile and plantopolis frameworks, tourism, post modernity and the urban nexus, economic change and the dual processes of global convergence and divergence, and the nature of the relationships existing between the state, the informal sector, housing and environmental conditions. In reality, it is shown that the development of tourism and enclave manufacturing is leading to new forms of urban concentration, and not spatial dispersal.
Book Synopsis Latin America Transformed by : Robert N Gwynne
Download or read book Latin America Transformed written by Robert N Gwynne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restructured to offer a more thematic approach Designed to be more student friendly, with new features including chapter summaries, a glossary of Spanish phrases and acronyms All the chapters have been substantially revised and a new chapter on livelihoods and place, as well as a concluding chapter, have been added. All the chapters have been substantially revised and a new chapter on livlihoods and place, as well as a concluding chapter, have been added.
Book Synopsis Martha Brae's Two Histories by : Jean Besson
Download or read book Martha Brae's Two Histories written by Jean Besson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on historical research and more than thirty years of anthropological fieldwork, this wide-ranging study underlines the importance of Caribbean cultures for anthropology, which has generally marginalized Europe's oldest colonial sphere. Located at
Book Synopsis Free Trade & Freedom by : Karla Slocum
Download or read book Free Trade & Freedom written by Karla Slocum and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers the relationship between market liberalization, social movements, and everyday forms and narratives of work
Book Synopsis A Profile of Small Farmers in the Caribbean Region by : Clarence Zuvekas
Download or read book A Profile of Small Farmers in the Caribbean Region written by Clarence Zuvekas and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Land, Law and Environment by : Allen Abramson
Download or read book Land, Law and Environment written by Allen Abramson and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2000-11-20 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In ten essays, anthropologists (mostly) focus more on the practical rather than cultural and ideological issues of postcolonial legacies in land law, contemporary claims on ancestral lands, and conservation issues--from Australia to West Africa. Abramson is with U. College London. Theodossopoulos is at the U. of Wales-Lampeter. The book is distributed by Stylus. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Women Farmers and Commercial Ventures by : Anita Spring
Download or read book Women Farmers and Commercial Ventures written by Anita Spring and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, case studies reveal that farm women in Africa, Asia and Latin America are rapidly becoming more than subsistence producers. It explores the societal and domestic changes brought about as women move to positions as wage labourers, contract growers and farm owners.
Book Synopsis The Fruit Sub-sector in the Windward Islands Diagnosis-strategy-actions by :
Download or read book The Fruit Sub-sector in the Windward Islands Diagnosis-strategy-actions written by and published by Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE. This book was released on 1987 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
