Post-colonial trajectories in the Caribbean : the three Guianas / / edited by Rosemarijn Hoefte, Matthew L. Bishop and Peter Clegg

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (189 pages) : illustrations, tables
• Disciplina: 320.9045
• Soggetto topico: Postcolonialism - Guyana; Postcolonialism - Suriname; Postcolonialism - French Guiana; Economic development - Guyana; Economic development - Suriname; Economic development - French Guiana
• Soggetto geografico: Guyana Politics and government 1966-; Suriname Politics and government 1975-; French Guiana Politics and government 1947-
• Altri autori: BishopMatthew Louis <1979-> CleggPeter <1972-> HoefteRosemarijn <1959->
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Colonial legacies and post-colonial conflicts in Guyana / Kate Quinn -- 2. Democracy and political culture in Suriname / Hans Ramsoedh -- 3. The dichotomy of universalism and particularism in French Guiana / Fred Reno and Bernard Phipps -- 4. Politics and ethnicity in the Guianas / Steve Garner -- 5. Migrations in the Guianas : evolution, similarities and differences / Simona Vezzoli -- 6. Small-scale gold mining in the Guianas : mobility and policy across national borders / Marjo de Theije -- 7. Migrants, money and might : the image of China in the Guianas / Paul B. Tjon Sie Fat, Ranu Abhelakh and Edward Troon -- 8. Infrastructure and regional development of the Guianas / Pitou van Dijck -- 9. Untapped : the energy potential of the Guianas / Anthony T. Bryan.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book compares and contrasts the contemporary development experience of neighbouring, geographically similar countries with an analogous history of exploitation but by three different European colonisers. Studying the so-called 'Three Guianas' (Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana) offers a unique opportunity to look for similarities and differences in their contemporary patterns of development, particularly as they grapple with new and complex shifts in the regional, hemispheric and global context. Shaped decisively by their respective historical experiences, Guyana, in tandem with the laissez-faire approach of Britain toward its Caribbean colonies, was decolonised relatively early, in 1966, and has maintained a significant degree of distance from London. The hold of The Hague over Suriname, however, endured well after independence in 1975. French Guiana, by contrast, was decolonised much sooner than both of its neighbours, in 1946, but this was through full integration, thus cementing its place within the political economy and administrative structures of France itself. Traditionally isolated from the Caribbean, the wider Latin American continent and from each other, today, a range of similar issues - such as migration, resource extraction, infrastructure development and energy security - are coming to bear on their societies and provoking deep and complex changes.
• Titolo autorizzato: Post-colonial trajectories in the Caribbean
• ISBN: 1-315-55224-8; 1-317-01404-9; 1-317-01405-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910151707903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: International political economy of new regionalisms series.