Caribbean Military Encounters
Published on 6. December 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
XVI, 364 pages
978-1-349-95863-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides a much-needed study of the lived experience of militarization in the Caribbean from 1914 to the present. It offers an alternative to policy and security studies by drawing on the perspectives of literary and cultural studies, history, anthropology, ethnography, music, and visual art. Rather than opposing or defending militarization per se, this book focuses attention on how Caribbean people negotiate militarization in their everyday lives. The volume explores topics such as the US occupation of Haiti; British West Indians in World War I; the British naval invasion of Anguilla; military bases including Chaguaramas, Vieques and Guantánamo; the militarization of the police; sex work and the military; drug wars and surveillance; calypso commentaries; private security armies; and border patrol operations.
Reviews / Votes
"Encounters with armed force-whether from the traditional imperial states, the regional hegemonic power after 1898, the USA, or local postcolonial police and military-have been a constant in the history of the Greater Caribbean. This original and interesting collection of essays explores some of these encounters in novel ways and from the perspective of the region's people themselves." (Bridget Brereton, Emerita Professor of History, University of the West Indies St Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago)"Moving beyond the focus on security that demonstrates the necessity or outrage of military interventions, this multidisciplinary and genuinely regional volume suggests that all of the various kinds of military encounter can be found across the region's imperial boundaries, showing us patterns of violence and power that are usually occluded by a focus on a single language area. The longstanding engagement of the region's people with the militarization that has been continuous with the storyof the Caribbean's modernity is explored with rich attentiveness to intimacy, silence, and the quotidian, as occupiers and insurgents' intentions converge on the same sites." (Faith Smith, Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies and English, Brandeis University, USA)
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Series
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
33 s/w Abbildungen
XVI, 364 p. 33 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
491 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-95863-4 (9781349958634)
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-58014-6
Schweitzer Classification
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Shalini Puri | Lara Putnam
Caribbean Military Encounters
Book
05/2017
Palgrave MacMillan
€96.29
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Persons
Shalini Puri is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. She is the author of T
he Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory
and the award-winning
The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post-Nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity
. She has edited the volumes
The Legacies of Caribbean Radical Politics
,
Marginal Migrations: The Circulation of Cultures within the Caribbean
, and with Debra Castillo,
Theorizing Fieldwork in the Humanities: Methods, Reflections, and Approaches to the Global South.
Lara Putnam is Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. She is the author of Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age , The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 , and more than twenty journal articles and book chapters exploring labor migration, state racism, and the ways family and intimacy shape and are shaped by large-scale political and economic change.
Lara Putnam is Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. She is the author of Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age , The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 , and more than twenty journal articles and book chapters exploring labor migration, state racism, and the ways family and intimacy shape and are shaped by large-scale political and economic change.
Content
1. Introduction: Subjects of Militarization; Lara Putnam and Shalini Puri.- 2. The Haitian Military as a Family Affair; Chelsey Kivland.- 3. British West Indian Memories of World War One: From Militarized Citizenship to Conscientious Objection; Richard Smith.- 4. Writing War and Empire: Poetry, Patriotism, and Public Claims-Making in the British Caribbean; Reena N. Goldthree.- 5. Occupied Thoroughfares: Haitian Women, Public Space, and the United States Occupation, 1915-1924; Grace L. Sanders Johnson.- 6. Base Impulses: Sex Work and the Military in Trinidadian Literature on World War Two; Shalini Puri.- 7. Killing Mapepe: Race, Sex and Colonial Politics in Cold War Vieques; Katherine T. McCaffrey and Bonnie Donohue.- 8. The Anguilla Revolution and Operation Sheepskin; Don E. Walicek.- 9. Pensions, Politics, and
Soul Train
: Anglo-Caribbean Diasporic Encounters with Guantánamo from theWar to the Special Period; Andrea Queeley.- 10. Cuban Narratives of War: Memories of Angola; Marisabel Almer.- 11. In "The Back Yard": Experiencing War in the Greater Caribbean (A Photo-Essay); Jenny Matthews.- 12. A "Parvenu Predator"? When the Kill Zone and the Contact Zone Collide on the Isle of Spice; John C. Nelson.- 13. Mourning María Pantalones: Military Rule and the Politics of Race, Citizenship, and Nostalgia in Panama; Aims McGuinness.- 14. Half-Mast: Shifting Landscapes of Protest and Demilitarization in Vieques; Daniel Arbino.- 15. Public Secrets, Militarization, and the Cultivation of Doubt: Kingston 2010; Deborah A. Thomas.- 16. "Who Going to Guard These Guards?" The Treatment of the Military in the Calypso; Louis Regis.- 17. Music and Militarization: Soca, Space, and Security; Jocelyne Guilbault.- 18. Interdict: Scenes of Military Maritime Encounter in the Caribbean; April Shemak.- Index.