Practices of Resistance in the Caribbean by Wiebke Beushausen... - 9781032095509

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Practices of Resistance in the CaribbeanNarratives, Aesthetics and Politics\nAuthor(s): Wiebke Beushausen, Miriam Brandel, Joseph Farquharson, Marius Littschwager, Annika McPherson, Julia Roth\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032095509, 978-1032095509\nSynopsis\nThe 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.\n\nExamining asymmetrical relations of power in the Greater Caribbean in historical and contemporary perspectives, this volume explores the regions history of resistance and subversion of oppressive structures against the backdrop of the Caribbeans 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 .