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List of contents
Introduction-Non-Sovereignty and the Neoliberal Challenge: Contesting Economic Exploitation in the Eastern Caribbean - H. Adlai Murdoch
Part I
1. Bridging the divide to face the Plantationocene: The chlordecone contamination and the 2009 social events in Martinique and Guadeloupe - Malcom Ferdinand
2. From the film Nèg maron (2005) to the Manifeste pour les 'produits' de haute nécessité (2009): Youth Dispossession, General Strikes and Alternative Economies in the French Caribbean - Louise Hardwick
3. Artists Against Exploitation: The L'Herminier Museum Squat as a Demonstration Against "La Vie Chère" - Alix Pierre
4. Martinique or the Greatness and Weakness of Spontaneity: A View of February 2009 - Hanétha Vété-Congolo
5. Neoliberalism and Caribbean Economies: Martinique, Guadeloupe and the Exploitative Strategies of Metropolitan Capital - H. Adlai Murdoch and Paget Henry
Part II
6. Criminalization, Punitive Neoliberalism and the Puerto Rican Independence Movement - Jacqueline Lazú
7. Developing Disasters: Industrialization, Austerity, and Violence in Haiti since 1915 - Vincent Joos
8. A 'New' Antillean DOM Arts Scene, or the pragmatic aesthetics of patience: Artincidence, Annabel Guérédrat, Daniel Goudrouffe, and Henri Tauliaut - Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken
9. Buskando nos mes: Giving Meaning to National Identity in Curaçao - Rose Mary Allen
10. The Parallels and Paradoxes of Postcolonial Sovereignty Games in the Dutch and French Caribbean: The End of the Netherlands Antilles and Construction of New Dutch Caribbean Political Entities and Relations - Michael Sharpe
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index
About the author
H. ADLAI MURDOCH is professor of Romance Studies and director of Africana Studies at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.
Summary
Examines the roots, effects and implications of the social upheaval that shook Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, and Reunion in February and March 2009; and provides analyses of the ways in which capital accumulation and centralization instantiated broad hierarchies of market-driven profit, capital accumulation, and economic exploitation.
