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Caribbean Globalizations explores the relations between globalization and the Caribbean since 1492, when Columbus first arrived in the region, to the present day. It aims to help change prevalent ways of thinking, not only about the Caribbean archipelago as a complex field of historical enquiry and cultural production, but also about the nature of globalization. It argues that the region has long been - and remains - a theatre of conflict between, as well as a site of emergence for, different forms of globalization. It thereby offers the opportunity to focus research and debate across the interdisciplinary spectrum by reflecting upon and re-imagining the idea of globalization in a specifically Caribbean context. It does so at a time when the Caribbean is urgently rethinking its own identity and place in a world where the Western economic model of globalization is more in question than ever.
With contributors including Patrick Chamoiseau, Christopher Miller, Mimi Sheller and Charles Forsdick, this book will be required reading for all scholars working in Caribbean Studies.
Contents
Prologue: Globalization, Globality, Globe-Stone - Patrick Chamoiseau
Introduction - Eva Sansavior and Richard Scholar
PART I. The Makings of Modernity
1. How Globalization invented Indians in the Caribbean - Patricia Seed
2. The Archipelago Goes Global: Late Glissant and the Early Modern Isolario - Richard Scholar
3. Precocious Modernity: Environmental Change in the Early Caribbean - Philip D. Morgan
4. 'Slaves' in My Family: French Modes of Servitude in the New World - Christopher L. Miller
5. Tobacco: The Commodification of the Caribbean and the Origins of Globalization - Guillaume Pigeard de Gurbert
PART II. The Complex Present
6. The Amaranth Paradigm: Amerindian Indigenous Glocality in the Caribbean - Judith Misrahi-Barak
7. Paradoxical Encounters: The Essay as a Space of Globalization in Montaigne's 'On the Cannibals' and Maryse Condé's 'O Brave New World' - Eva Sansavior
8. Race and Modernity in Hispaniola: Tropical Matters and Development Perspectives - David Howard
9. Aluminium: Globalizing Caribbean Mobilities, Caribbeanizing Global Mobilities - Mimi Sheller
10. Local, National, Regional, Global: Glissant and the Postcolonial Manifesto - Charles Forsdick
11. Tropical Apocalypse: Globalization and the Caribbean End Times - Martin Munro
Acknowledgements
Note on Contributors
Index
