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Absolute Freedom in Trinidad
Danny Miller
- Vol. 26, Iss: 2, pp 323
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The politics and poetics of dance
TL;DR: A review of dance and movement in the making of colonial cultures can be found in this article, where several works that employ innovative approaches to the study of dance are explored in detail, including the formation of discourses of exoticization and the production of social bodies.
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Exceptional Violence: Embodied Citizenship in Transnational Jamaica
TL;DR: Exceptional Violence as discussed by the authors is a sophisticated examination of postcolonial state formation in the Caribbean, considered across time and space, from the period of imperial New World expansion to the contemporary neoliberal era, and from neighborhood dynamics in Kingston to transnational socioeconomic and political fields.
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The politics of the streets: A geography of Caribana
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make some comparisons between Caribana and similar events in Britain and other parts of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, and argue that through its limited financial commitment to Caribana, the state restricts the legitimate expression of cultural difference, exposing the contradictions of official multiculturalist rhetoric.
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Sex, romance and the carnivalesque between female tourists and Caribbean men
TL;DR: The authors examine interviews with female travelers who have been involved with Caribbean males during their holidays in Trinidad and Tobago and suggest that their experiences can best be understood employing the concept of the carnivalesque.
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Flirting in the Factory
TL;DR: In this paper, an enquete ethnographique menee dans une usine de Trinidad forme la base of cet article. But the main d'œuvre de cette usine is essentiellement composede d'ouvrieres noires and indiennes travaillant a la chaine, and de contremaitres blancs pour la majorite, les autres etiens.
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Black Skin, White Masks
TL;DR: Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks as discussed by the authors is a major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, and is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world.
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Islands of history
TL;DR: Sahlins as mentioned in this paper focuses on islands-Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand-whose histories have intersected with European history, but he is also concerned with the insular thinking in Western scholarship that creates false dichotomies between past and present, between structure and event, between the individual and society.
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Hegel and Modern Society
TL;DR: The authors argue that the goal of a society of free individuals whose social activity is expressive of who they are seems an even more distant goal now, and Taylor's discussion has renewed relevance for our increasingly globalised and industrialised society.