Practices Of Resistance In The Caribbean

Author : Wiebke Beushausen,Miriam Brandel,Joseph T. Farquharson,Marius Littschwager,Annika McPherson,Julia Roth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351838771

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Practices of Resistance in the Caribbean by Wiebke Beushausen,Miriam Brandel,Joseph T. Farquharson,Marius Littschwager,Annika McPherson,Julia Roth Pdf

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.

Author : Wim Hoogbergen
Publisher : Isor-Publications
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Blacks
ISBN : 9051872054

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Born Out of Resistance by Wim Hoogbergen Pdf

Author : Karen Fog Olwig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135211059

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Small Islands, Large Questions by Karen Fog Olwig Pdf

This book focuses on the post-emancipation period in the Caribbean and how local societies dealt with the new socio-economic conditions. Scholars from Jamaica, the Virgin Islands, England, Denmark and The Netherlands link this era with the contemporary Caribbean.

Author : Michael Craton
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Slave insurrections
ISBN : 0801475287

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Testing the Chains by Michael Craton Pdf

Author : Selwyn Reginald Cudjoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:867284476

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The Role of Resistance in Caribbean Literature by Selwyn Reginald Cudjoe Pdf

Author : Gad Heuman,David Vincent Trotman
Publisher : MacMillan
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004835776

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Contesting Freedom by Gad Heuman,David Vincent Trotman Pdf

This collection of studies is concerned with exploring some of the many issues faced by Caribbean Societies, as those societies grappled with the problems generated by the demise of slavery. The experiences of the post-slavery period make the Caribbean less of a homogenous area of study then the slave period, when the commonalities were more obvious and compelling. The circumstances in which the slave systems were dismantled, and the differences in the timing of the end of slavery combine with other factors to make the Caribbean an area of diverse post-emancipation experiences, despite some obvious areas of real commonality. The present volume seeks to contribute to the understanding of the post emancipation period by taking as its jumping off point the debate over continuity and change, and has as its central concerns the issues of conflict, control and resistance. The issues covered by the contributors include law and the penal system; riots and social uprising; labour control; religion, marriage and other areas of cultural interest. This collection is a result of a fruitful collaboration between the Centre for Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick and the UNESCO-York University Nigerian Hinterland Project funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Research Council.

Author : Hilary Beckles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034407135

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Afro-Caribbean Women & Resistance to Slavery in Barbados by Hilary Beckles Pdf

Author : Oral A. W. Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134939770

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Biblical Resistance Hermeneutics within a Caribbean Context by Oral A. W. Thomas Pdf

The Bible is of central importance within Caribbean life but is rarely used as an agent for social change. Caribbean biblical hermeneutics focus more on the meaning of biblical texts for today and less on the context in which the texts themselves were written. 'Biblical Resistance Hermeneutics within a Caribbean Context' offers a biblical hermeneutic that acknowledges the importance of the socio-ideological interests, theological agendas, and social practices that produced the biblical texts, as well as the socio-cultural context of the contemporary reader. The book examines the social context of post-independence Caribbean and outlines the difficulties of biblical interpretation within Christian communities that descend from a history of slavery. Current hermeneutical practices in the Caribbean are critiqued and a biblical resistant reading offered that enables the Bible to be used as a cultural weapon of resistance.

Author : Selwyn Reginald Cudjoe
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0343019426

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The Role of Resistance in Caribbean Literature by Selwyn Reginald Cudjoe Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Selwyn R. Cudjoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Caribbean Area
ISBN : OCLC:1367941638

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Resistance in Caribbean Literature by Selwyn R. Cudjoe Pdf

Author : Karen Fog Olwig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Plantation life
ISBN : OCLC:1301971571

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Cultural Adaptation and Resistance on St. John by Karen Fog Olwig Pdf

Author : Miles Ogborn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Oral communication
ISBN : 9780226657684

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The Freedom of Speech by Miles Ogborn Pdf

The institution of slavery has always depended on myriad ways of enforcing the boundaries between slaveholders and the enslaved. As historical geographer Miles Ogborn reveals in The Freedom of Speech, no repressive tool has been as pervasive as the policing of words themselves. Offering a compelling new lens on transatlantic slavery, this book gathers rich historical data from Barbados, Jamaica, the United Kingdom, and North America to delve into the complex relationships between voice, slavery, and empire. From the most quotidian encounters to formal rules of what counted as evidence in court, the battleground of slavery lay in who could speak and under what conditions. But, as Ogborn shows through keen attention to the narratives and silences in the archives, if slavery as a legal status could be made by words, it could be unmade by them as well. A masterful look at the duality of domination, The Freedom of Speech offers a rich interpretation of oral cultures that both supported and constantly threatened to undermine the slave system.

Author : Randy M. Browne
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812294279

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Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean by Randy M. Browne Pdf

A groundbreaking study of slavery and power in the British Caribbean that foregrounds the struggle for survival Atlantic slave societies were notorious deathtraps. In Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean, Randy M. Browne looks past the familiar numbers of life and death and into a human drama in which enslaved Africans and their descendants struggled to survive against their enslavers, their environment, and sometimes one another. Grounded in the nineteenth-century British colony of Berbice, one of the Atlantic world's best-documented slave societies and the last frontier of slavery in the British Caribbean, Browne argues that the central problem for most enslaved people was not how to resist or escape slavery but simply how to stay alive. Guided by the voices of hundreds of enslaved people preserved in an extraordinary set of legal records, Browne reveals a world of Caribbean slavery that is both brutal and breathtakingly intimate. Field laborers invoked abolitionist-inspired legal reforms to protest brutal floggings, spiritual healers conducted secretive nighttime rituals, anxious drivers weighed the competing pressures of managers and the condition of their fellow slaves in the fields, and women fought back against abusive masters and husbands. Browne shows that at the core of enslaved people's complicated relationships with their enslavers and one another was the struggle to live in a world of death. Provocative and unflinching, Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean reorients the study of Atlantic slavery by revealing how differently enslaved people's social relationships, cultural practices, and political strategies appear when seen in the light of their unrelenting struggle to survive.

Author : Susan Dwyer Amussen
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0807888834

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Caribbean Exchanges by Susan Dwyer Amussen Pdf

English colonial expansion in the Caribbean was more than a matter of migration and trade. It was also a source of social and cultural change within England. Finding evidence of cultural exchange between England and the Caribbean as early as the seventeenth century, Susan Dwyer Amussen uncovers the learned practice of slaveholding. As English colonists in the Caribbean quickly became large-scale slaveholders, they established new organizations of labor, new uses of authority, new laws, and new modes of violence, punishment, and repression in order to manage slaves. Concentrating on Barbados and Jamaica, England's two most important colonies, Amussen looks at cultural exports that affected the development of race, gender, labor, and class as categories of legal and social identity in England. Concepts of law and punishment in the Caribbean provided a model for expanded definitions of crime in England; the organization of sugar factories served as a model for early industrialization; and the construction of the "white woman" in the Caribbean contributed to changing notions of "ladyhood" in England. As Amussen demonstrates, the cultural changes necessary for settling the Caribbean became an important, though uncounted, colonial export.

Author : Pablo F. Gómez
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469630885

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The Experiential Caribbean by Pablo F. Gómez Pdf

Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theaters, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gomez examines the strategies that Caribbean people used to create authoritative, experientially based knowledge about the human body and the natural world during the long seventeenth century. Gomez treats the early modern intellectual culture of these mostly black and free Caribbean communities on its own merits and not only as it relates to well-known frameworks for the study of science and medicine. Drawing on an array of governmental and ecclesiastical sources—notably Inquisition records—Gomez highlights more than one hundred black ritual practitioners regarded as masters of healing practices and as social and spiritual leaders. He shows how they developed evidence-based healing principles based on sensorial experience rather than on dogma. He elucidates how they nourished ideas about the universality of human bodies, which contributed to the rise of empirical testing of disease origins and cures. Both colonial authorities and Caribbean people of all conditions viewed this experiential knowledge as powerful and competitive. In some ways, it served to respond to the ills of slavery. Even more crucial, however, it demonstrates how the black Atlantic helped creatively to fashion the early modern world.