Social structural change in the English-speaking Caribbean

Includes bibliographyEstudia algunos aspectos de las tendencias dominantes en la sociedad de las Indias Occidentales en las últimas décadas. Analiza el marco social, la evolución y estructura de la economía, cambios y consecuencias en las condiciones económicas, políticas y demográficas; pronósticos

Being Tamil, being Hindu:Tamil migrants’ negotiations of the absence of Tamil Hindu spaces in the West Midlands and South West of England

This paper considers the religious practices of Tamil Hindus who have settled in the West Midlands and South West of England in order to explore how devotees of a specific ethno-regional Hindu tradition with a well-established UK infrastructure in the site of its adherents’ population density adapt their religious practices in settlement areas which lack this infrastructure. Unlike the majority of the UK Tamil population who live in the London area, the participants in this study did not have ready access to an ethno-religious infrastructure of Tamil-orientated temples and public rituals. The paper examines two means by which this absence was addressed as well as the intersections and negotiations of religion and ethnicity these entailed: firstly, Tamil Hindus’ attendance of temples in their local area which are orientated towards a broadly imagined Hindu constituency or which cater to a non-Tamil ethno-linguistic or sectarian community; and, secondly, through the ‘DIY’ performance of ethnicised Hindu ritual in non-institutional settings

Polítical economy of agricultural and rural sector planning in Caribbean societies

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Persistent Poverty: Underdevelopment in Plantation Ekonomies of the Third World

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Economía política de la planificación de los sectores agrícola y rural en las sociedades del Caribe

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Small Farming and Radical Imaginations in the Caribbean Today

Forged and still scarred by slavery, Caribbean agricultural landscapes are now being made redundant in an era of global market integration. The demise of preferential trade agreements is exposing the uncompetitiveness of the plantation sector while small farmers, still largely confined to marginal positions within highly inequitable landscapes, are being pushed into a new vulnerability by market integration, as rising food imports flood local markets. Unfortunately, political attention continues to revolve around the ailing plantation sector. In contrast, it is argued here that the current crisis of Caribbean agriculture contains a historic opportunity for restructuring in the interests of the region\u27s small farmers and that, in the process, the sector could be helped to gain a new vitality