The contributors to Globalization, Sovereignty and Citizenship in the Caribbean variously address topics and issues of colonial and postcolonial citizenship, identity and belonging; sovereignty and the body politic and unresolved class and other contradictions of the Haitian Revolution, Commonwealth Caribbean societies, Cuba, and the non-independent territories of Puerto Rico and the Netherlands Antilles, the French Antilles, and the Cayman Islands. There are degrees of emphasis on the contradictory relationship between globalization and national processes, with attention to class, state, nation, gender, racialization, culture, migrant labour and other political concerns. Other topics include ways in which the United States, the United Kingdom, France and the Netherlands influence conceptions of state security and governance and how cultural and ideological commitments to democracy and sovereignty reinforce certain sovereignty myths and contribute to the assertion that globalization represents a threat to sovereignty, democracy and freedom in the Caribbean. The deepening of the integration of the entire Caribbean into the contradictory processes of globalization suggests that sovereignty, democracy, citizenship, belonging and identity as experienced in the region are best theorized as unfinished (open-ended) projects.
Preface
Introduction
Hilbourne A. Watson
Dialectic of Colonial and Postcolonial Citizenships, Belonging and State Sovereignty in the Caribbean
Hilbourne A. Watson
State Sovereignty, Body Politic, Neo-Patriarchy and Citizenship in the Caribbean: Beyond Epistemological Territorialism and Sovereignty Myths
Hilbourne A. Watson
From Revolutionary Slaves to Powerless Citizens: The Unresolved Contradictions of the Haitian Revolution
Alex Dupuy
Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging in the Caribbean
Linden Lewis
Citizenship and Belonging: Forging a Caribbean Identity
Anton L. Allahar
Identity Politics in the Territorial Fringe: Citizenship and Belonging in Puerto Rico and the Netherlands Antilles
Aarón Gamaliel Ramos
Disillusioned Citizens: The Experience of French Territories in the Caribbean
Justin Daniel
Immigration, National Belonging and the Dilemma of
Self-Determination in the Cayman Islands
Sean Gill
Conclusion
Hilbourne A. Watson
Contributors
Index