The Urban Caribbean

Author : Alejandro Portes,Carlos Dore y Cabral,Patricia Landolt
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997-06-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801855195

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The Urban Caribbean by Alejandro Portes,Carlos Dore y Cabral,Patricia Landolt Pdf

A study of urbanization in five countries—Costa Rica, Haiti, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, and Jamaica—during the 1980s and 1990s when the region's economy shifted from one heavily dependent on imports to one directed more to producing exports. The Urban Caribbean studies urbanization in five countries—Costa Rica, Haiti, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, and Jamaica—during the 1980s and 1990s when the region's economy shifted from one heavily dependent on imports to one directed more to producing exports. This shift caused producers and entrepreneurs to rely more on microenterprises, thus challenging the informal economy networks of the central cities. Sociologist Alejandro Portes and the other contributors use rich, in-depth data to examine both qualitative and quantitative changes in these five countries. Their research method allows them to make generalizations applicable to all five economies while retaining the concreteness of the similarities and differences that make each country unique. "This volume is an incentive to other collaborative efforts to chart the paths taken by the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean as they seek to accommodate to the new global political and economic context . . . .The message of the volume is a convincing one. Because of similarities in the trends affecting countries of the region and policy debates, each country can benefit from the experiences of the others. However, the differences in political structure and in the nature of citizenship mean that social and economic policy debates must take into account the national context."—from the Foreword, by Bryan Roberts, University of Texas-Austin

Author : Robert B. Potter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351880695

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The Urban Caribbean in an Era of Global Change by Robert B. Potter Pdf

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.

Author : Malcolm Cross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1979-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521224268

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Urbanization and Urban Growth in the Caribbean by Malcolm Cross Pdf

This book, originally published in 1979, as part of the Urbanization in Developing Countries series, examines the nature and impact of unplanned urban growth in the Caribbean. Unlike other parts of the underdeveloped world, Caribbean societies are unique in having been created by European economic and strategic needs. The original instrument for this domination was the plantation that generated the infamous history of migration from Africa and Asia and which continues to exert an important influence in determining the structure and growth of major urban centres. The book also surveys some distinctive features of Caribbean societies, including family life, religions and social divisions apparently based on race and colour, and concludes by affirming the need to redirect development strategies from Western models towards the creation of a uniquely Caribbean identity based on the redevelopment of land and the revival of agriculture. Examples are drawn from Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico and the Commonwealth Caribbean.

Author : Rivke Jaffe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780190273590

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Concrete Jungles by Rivke Jaffe Pdf

'Concrete Jungles' explores the hidden geographies of injustice in the Caribbean islands, demonstrating how mainstream environmentalism reflects and reproduces racial and economic inequalities.

Author : Rivke Jaffe
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : City planning
ISBN : 9789766372958

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The Caribbean City by Rivke Jaffe Pdf

"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 settings of most Caribbean urban areas." "This innovative volume presents a detailed introduction to the spatial, socio-cultural and economic characteristics of the Caribbean city, followed by case studies of selected cities in the Dutch, Hispanophone, Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean. It discusses a broad range of disciplinary approaches in examining the urban Caribbean, incorporating perspectives from anthropology, sociology, history, political science, geography and literary and cultural criticism."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Robert B. Potter,David Barker,Thomas Klak,Denis Conway
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317875994

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The Contemporary Caribbean by Robert B. Potter,David Barker,Thomas Klak,Denis Conway Pdf

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.

Author : Michel S. Laguerre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UCSC:32106014777855

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Urban Life in the Caribbean by Michel S. Laguerre Pdf

Author : Anke Birkenmaier
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781978814516

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Caribbean Migrations by Anke Birkenmaier Pdf

2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title With mass migration changing the configuration of societies worldwide, we can look to the Caribbean to reflect on the long-standing, entangled relations between countries and areas as uneven in size and influence as the United States, Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica. More so than other world regions, the Caribbean has been characterized as an always already colonial region. It has long been a key area for empires warring over influence spheres in the new world, and where migration waves from Africa, Europe, and Asia accompanied every political transformation over the last five centuries. In Caribbean Migrations, an interdisciplinary group of humanities and social science scholars study migration from a long-term perspective, analyzing the Caribbean's "unincorporated subjects" from a legal, historical, and cultural standpoint, and exploring how despite often fractured public spheres, Caribbean intellectuals, artists, filmmakers, and writers have been resourceful at showcasing migration as the hallmark of our modern age.

Author : Lucy Evans
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781381182

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Communities in Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean Short Stories by Lucy Evans Pdf

This book examines the representation of community in contemporary Anglophone Caribbean short stories, focusing on the most recent wave of Anglophone Caribbean short story writers following the genre's revival in the mid-1980s. The first extended study of Caribbean short stories, it presents the phenomenon of interconnected stories as a significant feature of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Anglophone Caribbean literary cultures. Lucy Evans contends that the short story collection and cycle, literary forms regarded by genre theorists as necessarily concerned with representations of community, are particularly appropriate and enabling as a vehicle through which to conceptualise Caribbean communities. The book covers short story collections and cycles by Olive Senior, Earl Lovelace, Kwame Dawes, Alecia Mckenzie, Lawrence Scott, Mark McWatt, Robert Antoni and Dionne Brand, and argues that the form of interconnected stories is a crucial part of these writers' imagining of communities, which may be fractured, plural and fraught with tensions, but which nevertheless hold together. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of community, bringing literary representations of community into dialogue with models of community developed in the field of Caribbean anthropology. The works analysed are set in Trinidad, Jamaica and Guyana, and in several cases the setting extends to the Caribbean diaspora in Europe and North America. Looking in turn at rural, urban, national and global communities, the book draws attention to changing conceptions of community around the turn of the millennium.

Author : Cécile Vidal
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469645193

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Caribbean New Orleans by Cécile Vidal Pdf

Combining Atlantic and imperial perspectives, Caribbean New Orleans offers a lively portrait of the city and a probing investigation of the French colonists who established racial slavery there as well as the African slaves who were forced to toil for them. Casting early New Orleans as a Caribbean outpost of the French Empire rather than as a North American frontier town, Cecile Vidal reveals the persistent influence of the Antilles, especially Saint-Domingue, which shaped the city's development through the eighteenth century. In so doing, she urges us to rethink our usual divisions of racial systems into mainland and Caribbean categories. Drawing on New Orleans's rich court records as a way to capture the words and actions of its inhabitants, Vidal takes us into the city's streets, market, taverns, church, hospitals, barracks, and households. She explores the challenges that slow economic development, Native American proximity, imperial rivalry, and the urban environment posed to a social order that was predicated on slave labor and racial hierarchy. White domination, Vidal demonstrates, was woven into the fabric of New Orleans from its founding. This comprehensive history of urban slavery locates Louisiana's capital on a spectrum of slave societies that stretched across the Americas and provides a magisterial overview of racial discourses and practices during the formative years of North America's most intriguing city.

Author : Bettina E. Schmidt
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780754692324

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Caribbean Diaspora in the Usa Diversity of Caribbean Religions in New York City by Bettina E. Schmidt Pdf

"Caribbean Diaspora in the USA" presents a new cultural theory based on an exploration of Caribbean religious communities in New York City. The Caribbean culture of New York demonstrates a cultural dynamism which embraces Spanish speaking, English speaking and French speaking migrants. All cultures are full of breaks and contradictions as Latin American and Caribbean theorists have demonstrated in their ongoing debate. This book combines unique research by the author in Caribbean New York with the theoretical discourse of Latin American and Caribbean scholars.Focusing on Caribbean religious communities, including Cuban/Puerto Rican Santeria (Regla de Ocha), Haitian Vodou, Shango (Orisha Baptist) from Trinidad and Tobago, and Brazilian Pentecostal church, Schmidt's observations lead to the construction of a cultural concept that illustrates a culture in an ongoing state of change, with more than one form of expression depending on situation, time and context. Showing the creativity of religions and the way immigrants adapt to their new surroundings, this book fills a gap between Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

Author : United Nations
Publisher : UN
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : UCBK:C105058342

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The State of Latin American and Caribbean Cities 2012 by United Nations Pdf

With 80% of its population living in cities, Latin America and the Caribbean is the most urbanized region on the planet. Located here are some of the largest and best-known cities, like Mexico City, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Bogota, Lima and Santiago. The region also boasts hundreds of smaller cities that stand out because of their dynamism and creativity. This edition of State of Latin American and Caribbean cities presents the current situation of the region's urban world, including the demographic, economic, social, environmental, urban and institutional conditions in which cities are developing.

Author : Philipp Horn,Paola Alfaro d'Alencon,Ana Claudia Duarte Cardoso
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319578163

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Emerging Urban Spaces by Philipp Horn,Paola Alfaro d'Alencon,Ana Claudia Duarte Cardoso Pdf

This edited collection critically discusses the relevance of, and the potential for identifying conceptual common ground between dominant urban theory projects – namely Neo-Marxian accounts on planetary urbanization and alternative ‘Southern’ post-colonial and post-structuralist projects. Its main objective is to combine different urban knowledge to support and inspire an integrative research approach and a conceptual vocabulary which allows understanding the complex characteristics of diverse emerging urban spaces. Drawing on in-depth case study material from across the world, the different chapters in this volume disentangle planetary urbanization and apply it as a research framework to the context-specific challenges faced by many `ordinary' urban settings. In addition, through their focus on both Northern- and Southern urban spaces, this edited collection creates a truly global perspective on crucial practice-relevant topics such as the co-production of urban spaces, the ‘right to diversity’ and the ‘right to the urban’ in particular local settings.

Author : David Barker,Duncan F. M. McGregor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9766401349

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Resources, Planning and Environmental Management in a Changing Caribbean by David Barker,Duncan F. M. McGregor Pdf

This volume reports on contemporary research by geographers and others into resource management and planning issues in the Caribbean region. The common theme is the search for developmental strategies that focus on social and economic needs without further deterioration of the resource base.

Author : Robert B. Potter,David Barker,Thomas Klak,Denis Conway
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317875987

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The Contemporary Caribbean by Robert B. Potter,David Barker,Thomas Klak,Denis Conway Pdf

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.