Caribbean political thought
Subtitle: theories of the post-colonial state
By: edited by Aaron Kamugisha
Publisher: Ian Randle Publishers; Ian Randle Publishers, Jamaica
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Kingston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 517
ISBN-13: 9789766376192
Subjects: Political science; Sources; History; Politics and government; Political culture; Postcolonialism; Decolonization
Work titles: Caribbean political thought (Theories of the post-colonial state)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Post-colonial failure?  -- by Aaron Kamugisha; title: Theories of the post-colonial state --; title: Contemporary political trends in the English-speaking Caribbean  -- Walter Rodney; title: Afro-Creole nationalism as elite domination : the English-speaking West Indies  -- Percy Hintzen; title: The development of Antihaitianismo into a dominant ideology during the Trujillo era  -- Ernesto Sagás; title: State against nation  -- Michel-Rolph Trouillot; title: Clientelism, power and democracy  -- Carl Stone; title: The political moment in Jamaica : the dimensions of hegemonic dissolution  -- Brian Meeks; title: The rise of the authoritarian state  -- C.Y. Thomas; title: Politics, corruption and the police  -- George Danns; title: Expropriation and compensation from a Third World perspective  -- Norman Girvan; title: Against colonialism : political theory and re-colonisation in the Caribbean  -- George Belle; title: Confronting power and politics : a feminist theorizing of gender in Commonwealth Caribbean studies  -- Eudine Barriteau; title: Caribbean options under global neoliberalism -- Hilbourne Watson; title: Theorizing post-colonial citizenship --; title: The West Indian middle classes  -- C.L.R. James; title: Not just (any)body can be a citizen : the politics of law, sexuality and postcoloniality in Trinidad and Tobago and the Bahamas  -- M. Jacqui Alexander; title: Fictions of citizenship, bodies without sex : the production and effacement of gender in the law  -- Tracy Robinson; title: Predation politics and the political impasse in Jamaica  -- Obika Gray; title: The Asian other in the Caribbean  -- Patricia Mohammed; title: Smadditizin'  -- Charles Mills; title: Caribbean regionalism, integration, diaspora --; title: Are we seeing the birth of a nation in the West Indies?  -- Frantz Fanon; title: The agony of the Eight  -- Arthur Lewis; title: "A scuffling of Islands" or a nation?  -- Patsy Lewis; title: Identity, space and the West Indian Union  -- Havelock R.H. Ross-Brewster; title: Thinking the diaspora : home-thoughts from abroad  -- Stuart Hall; title: Towards Caribbeanness  -- Edouard Glissant --Political culture; title: Cultural domination and political subordination : notes toward a theory of the Caribbean political system  -- A.W. Singham and N.L. Singham; title: Racism and culture  -- Frantz Fanon; title: The political leader considered as a man of culture  -- Eric Williams; title: Learning to blow the abeng : a critical look at anti-establishment movements of the 1960s and 1970s  -- Rupert Lewis; title: Cultural identity versus political identity in the French West Indies  -- Jacky Dahomay; title: Politics and culture  -- George Lamming; title: Re-engineering blackspace  -- Erna Brodber; title: The Pope must have been drunk, the King of Castile a madman : culture as actuality, and the Caribbean rethinking modernity  -- Sylvia Wynter; title: Afterword: Contours of political thought in the post-independence Caribbean -- Paget Henry.