"This is an exceptional book. Michaeline A. Crichlow juxtaposes erudite knowledge about several specialized fields with an experimental stance that aims at detecting the "making" of conditions often seen as a mere attribute. She shows us how creolization is made, thereby becoming much more than disadvantaged status. In this making lies the possibility that powerlessness can be complex and in this complexity lie the elements for making the political, whether expressed in cultural or recognizably political vocabularies. This book opens up a new terrain for inquiry and interpretation."--Saskia…mehr
"This is an exceptional book. Michaeline A. Crichlow juxtaposes erudite knowledge about several specialized fields with an experimental stance that aims at detecting the "making" of conditions often seen as a mere attribute. She shows us how creolization is made, thereby becoming much more than disadvantaged status. In this making lies the possibility that powerlessness can be complex and in this complexity lie the elements for making the political, whether expressed in cultural or recognizably political vocabularies. This book opens up a new terrain for inquiry and interpretation."--Saskia Sassen, author of "Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages"Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Michaeline A. Crichlow, an historical sociologist, is Associate Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Negotiating Caribbean Freedom: Peasants and the State in Development and a co-editor of Informalization: Process and Structure. Patricia Northover is a Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.
Inhaltsangabe
Preface ix Prologue. Globalization and Creole Identities: The Shaping of Power in Post-Plantation Spaces 1 1. Locating the Global in Creolization: Ships Sailing Through Modern Space 15 2. Creole Time on the Move 41 3. Decentering the "Dialectics of Resistance" in the Context of a Globalizing Modern: Afro-Creoles under Colonial Rule 73 4. Power and Its Subjects in Postcolonial Performance 107 5. "Gens Anglaises": Diasporic Movements Remixing the World with Post-Creole Imaginations 135 6. An eBay Imaginary in an Unequal World: Creolization on the Move 171 Epilogue. Rethinking Creolization through Multiple Présences: Masks, Masquerades, and the Making of Modern Subjects 201 Notes 221 Index 281
Preface ix Prologue. Globalization and Creole Identities: The Shaping of Power in Post-Plantation Spaces 1 1. Locating the Global in Creolization: Ships Sailing Through Modern Space 15 2. Creole Time on the Move 41 3. Decentering the "Dialectics of Resistance" in the Context of a Globalizing Modern: Afro-Creoles under Colonial Rule 73 4. Power and Its Subjects in Postcolonial Performance 107 5. "Gens Anglaises": Diasporic Movements Remixing the World with Post-Creole Imaginations 135 6. An eBay Imaginary in an Unequal World: Creolization on the Move 171 Epilogue. Rethinking Creolization through Multiple Présences: Masks, Masquerades, and the Making of Modern Subjects 201 Notes 221 Index 281
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