Practices of Resistance in the Caribbean

<p>The Caribbean has played a crucial geopolitical role in the Western pursuit of economic dominance yet Eurocentric research usually treats the Caribbean as a peripheral region consequently labelling the inhabitants as beings without agency.</p><p></p><p>Examining asymmetrical relations of power in the Greater Caribbean in historical and contemporary perspectives this volume explores the region’s history of resistance and subversion of oppressive structures against the backdrop of the Caribbean’s central role for the accumulation of wealth of European and North American actors and the respective dialectics of modernity/coloniality through a variety of experiences inducing migration transnational exchange and transculturation. Contributors approach the Caribbean as an empowered space of opposition and agency and focus on perspectives of the region as a place of entanglements with a long history of political and cultural practices of resistance to colonization inequality heteronomy purity invisibilization and exploitation.</p><p></p><p>An important contribution to the literature on agency and resistance in the Caribbean this volume offers a new perspective on the region as a geopolitically economically and culturally crucial space and it will interest researchers in the fields of Caribbean politics literature and heritage colonialism entangled histories global studies perspectives ethnicity gender and migration. </p>