Post-Colonial Trajectories in the Caribbean
This book compares and contrasts the contemporary development experience of neighbouring, geographically similar countries with an analogous history of exploitation but by three different European colonisers. Studying the so-called Three Guianas (Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana) offers a unique opportunity to look for similarities and differences in their contemporary patterns of development, particularly as they grapple with new and complex shifts in the regional, hemispheric and global context. Shaped decisively by their respective historical experiences, Guyana, in tandem with the laissez-faire approach of Britain toward its Caribbean colonies, was decolonised relatively early, in 1966, and has maintained a significant degree of distance from London. The hold of The Hague over Suriname, however, endured well after independence in 1975. French Guiana, by contrast, was decolonised much sooner than both of its neighbours, in 1946, but this was through full integration, thus cementing its place within the political economy and administrative structures of France itself. Traditionally isolated from the Caribbean, the wider Latin American continent and from each other, today, a range of similar issues such as migration, resource extraction, infrastructure development and energy security are coming to bear on their societies and provoking deep and complex changes.
Rosemarijn Hoefte is Senior Researcher at KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies in Leiden, the Netherlands.
Matthew L. Bishop is Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Sheffield, UK.
Peter Clegg is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations in the Department of Health and Social Sciences at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.
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Post-Colonial Trajectories in
the Caribbean
The Three Guianas
Edited by Rosemarijn Hoefte,
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Contents
ROSEMARIJN HOEFTE, MATTHEW L. BISHOP AND PETER CLEGG
KATE QUINN
HANS RAMSOEDH
FRED RNO AND BERNARD PHIPPS
STEVE GARNER
SIMONA VEZZOLI
MARJO DE THEIJE
PAUL B. TJON SIE FAT, RANU ABHELAKH AND EDWARD TROON
PITOU VAN DIJCK
ANTHONY T. BRYAN
ROSEMARIJN HOEFTE, MATTHEW L. BISHOP AND PETER CLEGG
Ranu Abhelakh trained in journalism in Suriname, the United States and India. She is a freelance writer and photojournalist for local and international media in Suriname. Her track record as an investigative journalist includes De formule van de Surinaamse identiteit:Toescheidingsovereenkomst, dubbele nationaliteit, PSO-kaart of duaal burgerschap (Paramaribo: Suribooks, 2010). She participated in the international photo exhibition Islam in five cities; Islam in Paramaribo Royal Institute of the Tropics/KIT Amsterdam, 2004.
Matthew L. Bishop is Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Sheffield, UK. Previously he was Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago. He also holds an honorary fellowship at the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) and is the author of two books: The Political Economy of Caribbean Development, and, with Jean Grugel, Democratization: A Critical Introduction (both published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2013). Bishop is also managing editor of the Caribbean Journal of International Relations & Diplomacy.
Anthony T. Bryan consults on energy issues to global political risk and investment firms. Currently a Senior Fellow of the Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, he is Professor Emeritus of the University of Miami, and has held visiting professorships at Indiana University, the University of Texas, Georgetown University, and the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. During his think tank career in Washington, D.C. he served at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He is the author/editor of ten books and numerous scholarly articles on a broad range of Caribbean and Latin American topics. His works on energy include analyses of Venezuelas resource diplomacy and its impact on the Caribbean and an examination of the development of Trinidad and Tobago as a natural gas economy (Trinidad and Tobago and its Neighbors in
