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Post-Colonial Trajectories in the Caribbean: The Three Guianas book cover

1st Edition

Post-Colonial Trajectories in the Caribbean The Three Guianas

Edited By Rosemarijn Hoefte, Matthew L. Bishop, Peter Clegg Copyright 2017
210 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Introduction

Rosemarijn Hoefte, Matthew L. Bishop and Peter Clegg

1. Colonial Legacies and Postcolonial Conflicts in Guyana

Kate Quinn

2. Democracy and Political Culture in Suriname

Hans Ramsoedh

3. The Dichotomy of Universalism and Particularism in French Guiana

Fred Réno and Bernard Phipps

4. Politics and Ethnicity in the Guianas

Steve Garner

5. Migrations in the Guianas: Evolution, Similarities and Differences

Simona Vezzoli

6. Small-scale Gold Mining in the Guianas: Mobility and Policy Across National Borders

Marjo de Theije

7. Migrants, Money and Might: The Image of China in the Guianas

Paul B. Tjon Sie Fat, Ranu Abhelakh and Edward Troon

8. Infrastructure and Regional Development of the Guianas

Pitou van Dijck

9. Untapped: The Energy Potential of the Guianas

Anthony T. Bryan

Conclusion: Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana in a Changing World

Rosemarijn Hoefte, Matthew L. Bishop and Peter Clegg

Biography

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 Head of Department, Health and Social Sciences and Associate Professor of Politics at the University of the West of England, Bristol.

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