Caribbean island movements: Culebra's trans-insularities

An ethnographic account of how the islanders of the Caribbean island of Culebra reproduce a sense of unique insular identity, while engaged in continuous practices of regional and global movements

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1. Verfasser: Cubero, Carlo A. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd. [2017]
Schriftenreihe:Rethinking the island
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Zusammenfassung:An ethnographic account of how the islanders of the Caribbean island of Culebra reproduce a sense of unique insular identity, while engaged in continuous practices of regional and global movements
Caribbean Island Movements explores the different ways in which being mobile is central to the production and reproduction of social identities on the Caribbean island of Culebra. Rather than seeing insularity and mobility, and its associations, as mutually exclusive components, this ethnographic study demonstrates how they mutually inform each other. The book proposes the term of "transinsularism" as a means to articulate the complex ways in which islanders construct a unique place for themselves in the world, while referencing and engaging in practices of movement. Based on a long term relationship to the Caribbean island of Culebra, it describes how mobile islanders select from various, at times contradictory, discourses and practices in the process of fashioning their sense of island identity. It makes the case for a conscious social creative process where a group of individuals finds ways to narrativise a life-world that operates in tension with structural social forces associated with nation-building, colonialism, and "landed narratives."
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XIX, 184 Seiten
ISBN:9781783488353
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