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Non-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment
Yarimar Bonilla
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Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJWVG; JHMC; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
As an overseas department of France, Guadeloupe is one of a handful of non-independent societies in the Caribbean that seem like political exceptions-or even paradoxes-in our current postcolonial era. In Non-Sovereign Futures, Yarimar Bonilla wrestles with the conceptual arsenal of political modernity-challenging contemporary notions of freedom, sovereignty, nationalism, and revolution-in order to recast Guadeloupe not as a problematically non-sovereign site but as a place that can unsettle how we think of sovereignty itself. Through a deep ethnography of Guadeloupean labor activism, Bonilla examines how Caribbean political actors navigate the conflicting norms and desires produced by the modernist project of postcolonial ... Read more
As an overseas department of France, Guadeloupe is one of a handful of non-independent societies in the Caribbean that seem like political exceptions-or even paradoxes-in our current postcolonial era. In Non-Sovereign Futures, Yarimar Bonilla wrestles with the conceptual arsenal of political modernity-challenging contemporary notions of freedom, sovereignty, nationalism, and revolution-in order to recast Guadeloupe not as a problematically non-sovereign site but as a place that can unsettle how we think of sovereignty itself. Through a deep ethnography of Guadeloupean labor activism, Bonilla examines how Caribbean political actors navigate the conflicting norms and desires produced by the modernist project of postcolonial ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226283814
SKU
V9780226283814
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About Yarimar Bonilla
Yarimar Bonilla is assistant professor of anthropology and Caribbean studies at Rutgers University.
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