1st Edition
News Making, Contested Publics and Stories of Belonging in the Dutch Caribbean
1. ‘The news’ Contested By News: Emerging Publics On Curaçao And Sint Maarten. 16
1.1. News in a Public Sphere that is Split on Curaçao. 17
1.2. News in a Public Sphere that is Private on Sint Maarten. 22
1.3. Struggles between Popular and Institutional Publics on the Islands. 27
1.4. Expanding Publics: News Going on Air and Underground. 34
2.1. Black nationalism alongside a creole establishment 45
2.2. The Interpellation of a Black Nationalist Story of Belonging. 53
2.3. An Alternative Story of Belonging among Young(Er) Sint Maarteners. 60
2.4. Politics of Belonging in a Shared Public Sphere. 66
3| The Lottery of Life: A Common Story of Belonging as Expressed by Curaçao’s Working Classes 69
3.1. The ‘University of the Street’: News Making in the Cultural Public Sphere. 72
3.2. Games of Chance and Lucky Numbers. 76
3.3. You Win Some, You Lose Some: The Facts of Daily Island Life. 82
3.4. Tomorrow, Ku Dios Ke: Embracing Change. 84
4.1. News and ‘The News’ in the Eye of the Storm.. 92
4.2. Proliferating Popular News Practices in Irma’s Aftermath. 95
4.3. All belong to ‘we’, Sint Maarteners. 101
Biography
Sanne Rotmeijer is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in International and Urban Studies at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS). Her research explores popular media and communication, diversity, and postcolonial urbanity, focusing on (diasporic) Caribbean publics and belonging.
