Le monde caraïbe. Défis et dynammique, Tome II.
Le monde caraïbe. Défis et dynammique, Tome II.

Author: Christian Lerat

Publisher: GiantChair

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 2858923221

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Les communications issues du colloque et réunies ici sont principalement axées sur les problématiques d'ordre géopolitique et socio-économique induites par le projet caraïbe d'intégration régionale. Projet volontariste comportant des enjeux considérables ; projet toutefois freiné à bien des égards par des configurations et un acquis historique peu propice aux stratégies fédératrices, non seulement entre les diverses aires culturelles, mais aussi à l'intérieur même d’ensembles présentant une relative homogénéité culturelle. Dépasser le particularisme des microcosmes, la fragmentation héritée du passé colonial et, parfois, la radicalité des clivages idéologiques participe d’un vaste programme. En ce sens, l’approche proposée par les intervenants est aussi bien rétrospective que prospective. Pour les pays et territoires du monde caraïbe, échapper à la marginalisation et mieux faire respecter leur souveraineté ou leur autonomie dépendra notamment de la réponse qu’ils sauront apporter aux défis générés tant par leurs "vieux démons" que par les exigences inhérentes au contexte de la mondialisation.

The French Revolution as a Moment of Respatialization
The French Revolution as a Moment of Respatialization

Author: Matthias Middell

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-09-23

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 3110620294

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The French Revolution has primarily been understood as a national event that also had a lasting impact in Europe and in the Atlantic world. Recently, historiography has increasingly emphasized how France’s overseas colonies also influenced the contours of the French Revolution. This volume examines the effects of both dimensions on the reorganization of spatial formats and spatial orders in France and in other societies. It departs from the assumption that revolutions shatter not only the political and economic old regime order at home but, in an increasingly interdependent world, also result in processes of respatialization. The French Revolution, therefore, is analysed as a key event in a global history that seeks to account for the shifting spatial organization of societies on a transregional scale.

Re-mapping the Americas
Re-mapping the Americas

Author: Dr Hamid Ghany

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2014-04-28

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 1472407814

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Since the end of the Second World War the map of the Americas has changed dramatically. Not only were many former European colonies turned into sovereign states, there was also an ongoing process of region-making recognizable throughout the hemisphere and obvious through the establishment of several regional agreements. The emergence of political and economic regional integration blocs is a very timely topic analyzed by scholars in many disciplines worldwide. This book looks at remapping the recent trends in region-making throughout the Americas in a way that hasn’t been at the center of academic analyses so far. While examining these regionalisation tendencies with a historical background in mind, the authors also answer fundamental questions such as: What influences does globalization have on region-making, both on normative regionalism plans as well as on actual economic, political, cultural, military and social regionalization processes driven by state and non-state actors? What ideas or interests lead states in the Americas to cooperate or compete with one another and how is this power distributed? How do these regional agreements affect trade relations and have there been trade barriers set up to protect national economies? What agreements exist or have existed and how did they change with regard to contents and for what reason? The book informs academic as well as non-academic audiences about regional developments in the Americas, in particular those dating back to the last twenty years. Beyond the primary purpose of summarizing the hemisphere’s recent trends, the book also brings clarification in a detailed but easy to understand way about timely issues regarding the institutionalisation, or lack thereof, of the plethora of regional and sub-regional bodies that have emerged in this hemisphere over the past couple of decades.

The Sound Shape of Language
The Sound Shape of Language

Author: Roman Jakobson

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2011-03-01

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 3110889455

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""Reading this volume transported me back to Harvard and MIT lecture halls of the 1960s, where weekly Roman Jakobson would spellbind his audience (this reviewer included), developing his vision of language through impassioned exposition, deft and devastating allusions to critical literature, anecdotes with the force of parables, metaphors of mythic imagery, and above all else overriding verbal artistry: truly in his own phrase, 'In the poetry of grammar'. The Sound Shape of Language, his collaboration with Linda R. Waugh, a scholar who has devoted considerable attention to an exposition and el.

Inequality, Socio-cultural Differentiation and Social Structures in Africa
Inequality, Socio-cultural Differentiation and Social Structures in Africa

Author: Dieter Neubert

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-06-25

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 3030171116

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This book contends that conventional class concepts are not able to adequately capture social inequality and socio-cultural differentiation in Africa. Earlier empirical findings concerning ethnicity, neo-traditional authorities, patron-client relations, lifestyles, gender, social networks, informal social security, and even the older debate on class in Africa, have provided evidence that class concepts do not apply; yet these findings have mostly been ignored. For an analysis of the social structures and persisting extreme inequality in African societies – and in other societies of the world – we need to go beyond class, consider the empirical realities and provincialise our conventional theories. This book develops a new framework for the analysis of social structure based on empirical findings and more nuanced approaches, including livelihood analysis and intersectionality, and will be useful for students and scholars in African studies and development studies, sociology, social anthropology, political science and geography.

France in the South Pacific
France in the South Pacific

Author: Denise Fisher

Publisher: ANU E Press

Published: 2013-05-23

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1922144959

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France is a Pacific power, with three territories, a military presence, and extensive investments. Once seen by many as a colonial interloper in the South Pacific, by the early 2000s, after it ended nuclear testing in French Polynesia and negotiated transitional Accords responding to independence demands in New Caledonia, France seems to have become generally accepted as a regional partner, even if its efforts concentrate on its own territories rather than the independent island states. But Frances future in the region has yet to be secured. By 2014 it is to have handed over a set of agreed autonomies to the New Caledonian government, before an independence referendum process begins. Past experience suggests that a final resolution of the status of New Caledonia will be divisive and could lead once again to violent confrontations. In French Polynesia, calls continue for independence and for treatment under UN decolonisation procedures, which France opposes. Other island leaders are watching, so far putting faith in the Noumea Accord, but wary of the final stages. The issues and possible solutions are more complex than the French Pacific island population of 515,000 would suggest. Combining historical background with political and economic analysis, this comprehensive study offers vital insight into the intricate history -- and problematic future -- of several of Australias key neighbours in the Pacific and to the priorities and options of the European country that still rules them. It is aimed at policy-makers, scholars, journalists, businesspeople, and others who want to familiarise themselves with the issues as Frances role in the region is redefined in the years to come.

The Non-independent Territories of the Caribbean and Pacific
The Non-independent Territories of the Caribbean and Pacific

Author: Peter Clegg

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780956954602

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By the end of the 20th century the once great modern European empires had gone - well, almost! Today, scattered around the world, there are small territories, remnants of empire that for one reason and another have eschewed independence and retain links of various kinds with the former imperial power. This edited collection focuses primarily on those territories in the Caribbean and Pacific which retain these 'colonial' ties. The issues affecting them such as constitutional reform, the maintenance of good governance, economic development, and the risks of economic vulnerability are important concerns for all territories both independent and non-independent. However, the ways in which these issues are addressed are somewhat different in small sub-national jurisdictions because of the particular regimes in place and the tensions inherent between the territories and their respective metropoles. The book brings together academics, policy-makers, constitutional lawyers, and civil servants to provide an insight into the complexities, contradictions, challenges and opportunities that help to define the non-independent territories of the Caribbean and Pacific, and their long-standing but sometimes awkward ties with their metropolitan powers.