04022 am 22006613u 450 991016076410332120230621140726.010.7765/9781526114921(CKB)3710000001032361(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/29200(DE-B1597)660872(DE-B1597)9781526114921(PPN)198334486(EXLCZ)99371000000103236120170206d2017 uy| 0engurm|#---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFrontiers of the Caribbean /Philip NantonManchester University Press2017Manchester, England :Manchester University Press,2017.©20151 online resource (140 pages) illustrations, maps; digital, PDF file(s)Theory for a Global Age1-5261-1374-0 1-5261-1492-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Acknowledgements --List of abbreviations --Maps --Introduction --1. Pirates of the Caribbean: frontier patterns old and new --2. Locating the frontier in St Vincent and the Grenadines --3. Civilisation and wilderness: the St Vincent and the Grenadines context --4. Frontier retentions --5. Writing the St Vincent frontier --6. Shifting urban and rural frontiers in St Vincent --7. Conclusion by way of afterword --References --Index.This book argues that the frontier, usually associated with the era of colonial conquest, has great, continuing and under explored relevance to the Caribbean region. Identifying the frontier as a moral, ideational and physical boundary between what is imagined as civilisation and wilderness, the book seeks to extend frontier analysis by focusing on the Eastern Caribbean multi-island state of St Vincent and the Grenadines. The continuing relevance of the concept of frontier, and allied notions of civilisation and wilderness, are illuminated through an analysis of the ways in which SVG is perceived and experienced by both outsiders to the society and its insiders. Using literary sources, biographies and autobiography, the book shows how St Vincent is imagined and made sense of as a modern frontier; a society in the balance between an imposed civilised order and an untameable wild that always encroaches, whether in the form of social dislocation, the urban presence of the ‘Wilderness people’ or illegal marijuana farming in the northern St Vincent hills. The frontier as examined here has historically been and remains very much a global production. Simultaneously, it is argued that contemporary processes of globalisation shape the development of tourism and finance sectors, as well as patterns of migration, they connect to shifting conceptions of the civilised and the wild, and have implications for the role of the state and politics in frontier societies.Theory for a global age.National characteristics, CaribbeanNational characteristics, Caribbean, in literatureBoundariesSocial aspectsBoundariesPhilosophyPopular cultureCaribbean AreaPostcolonialismCaribbean Areast vincentfrontiercaribbeanwildernessglobalisationcivilisationNational characteristics, Caribbean.National characteristics, Caribbean, in literature.BoundariesSocial aspects.BoundariesPhilosophy.Popular culturePostcolonialism306.09729Nanton Philip871421Manchester University Press,UkMaJRUBOOK9910160764103321Frontiers of the Caribbean1945409UNINA