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Author Joseph, Tennyson S. D

Title Decolonization in Saint Lucia : Politics and Global Neoliberalism, 1945-2010
Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (244 pages)
Series Caribbean Studies Series
Caribbean Studies Series
Contents Conceptual issues : sovereignty, nationalism, and independence in the era of global neoliberalism -- Tentative anticolonialism : implications for decolonization under globalization, 1940-1970 -- The politics of St. Lucian decolonization, 1970-1982 -- St. Lucia under global neoliberal hegemony, 1982-1990 -- Deepening globalization and the unmaking of the postcolonial order, 1990-1997 -- Global neoliberalism and the Left agenda, 1997-2006 -- "Sovereignty for sale" : domestic politics and international relations in the early twenty-first century, 2006-2010
Summary Tennyson S.D. Joseph builds upon current research on the anticolonial and nationalist experience in the Caribbean. He explores the impact of global transformation upon the independent experience of St. Lucia and argues that the island's formal decolonization roughly coincided with the period of the rise of global neoliberalism hegemony. Consequently, the concept of "limited sovereignty" became the defining feature of St. Lucia's understanding of the possibilities of independence. Central to the analysis is the tension between the role of the state as a facilitator of domestic aspira
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Subject Decolonization -- Saint Lucia -- History
Neoliberalism -- Saint Lucia -- History
Globalization -- Political aspects -- Saint Lucia -- History
Autonomy and independence movements
Decolonization
Economic history
Globalization -- Political aspects
Neoliberalism
Politics and government
SUBJECT Saint Lucia -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements
Saint Lucia -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Saint Lucia -- Politics and government -- 21st century
Saint Lucia -- Economic conditions
Subject Saint Lucia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781617031182
1617031186
128324473X
9781283244732