000736772 000__ 04819cam\a2200529\i\4500 000736772 001__ 736772 000736772 005__ 20210515111246.0 000736772 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000736772 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000736772 008__ 140930t20142014msu\\\\\ob\\\\001\0deng\d 000736772 020__ $$z9781628461213 (cloth : alkaline paper) 000736772 020__ $$a9781626740679$$qelectronic book 000736772 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10991677 000736772 035__ $$a(OCoLC)892620597 000736772 040__ $$aCaPaEBR$$beng$$erda$$epn$$cCaPaEBR 000736772 043__ $$acc-----$$anw-----$$anwjm--- 000736772 05014 $$aJL605$$b.M44 2014eb 000736772 08204 $$a320.9729$$223 000736772 1001_ $$aMeeks, Brian,$$eauthor. 000736772 24510 $$aCritical interventions in Caribbean politics and theory$$h[electronic resource] /$$cBrian Meeks. 000736772 264_1 $$aJackson :$$bUniversity Press of Mississippi,$$c[2014] 000736772 264_4 $$c©2014 000736772 300__ $$a1 online resource (267 pages). 000736772 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent 000736772 337__ $$acomputer$$2rdamedia 000736772 338__ $$aonline resource$$2rdacarrier 000736772 4901_ $$aCaribbean studies series 000736772 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000736772 5050_ $$aPreface: Dreaming to Change the World -- Part One. Theoretical Forays -- The Frontline : Valentino, Pablo Moses, and Caribbean Organic Philosophy in the Seventies -- Reasoning with Caliban : A Critical Reading of Paget Henry's Caliban's Reason : Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy -- Arguments within What's Left of the Left : James, Watson, and the Question of Method -- Michael Manley : Crossing the Contours of Charisma -- Part Two. Caribbean Questions -- Saving the Soul of the University -- Black Power Forty Years On -- Lloyd Best, "The People," and the Road Not Taken in 1970 -- Cuba from Due South -- Grenada, Once Again : Revisiting the 1983 Crisis and Collapse of the Grenada Revolution -- Part Three. Jamaican Journeys -- Reinventing the Jamaican Political System -- Imagining the Future : Rethinking the Political in Jamaica -- Caribbean Radical Traditions and the Turn in the Jamaican Moment -- The Dudus Events in Jamaica and the Future of Caribbean Politics -- Jamaica on the Cusp of Fifty : Whither Nationalism and Sovereignty? 000736772 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000736772 5202_ $$a"These essays by Brian Meeks, a noted public intellectual in the Caribbean, reflect on Caribbean politics, particularly radical politics and ideologies in the postcolonial era. But his essays also explain the peculiarities of the contemporary neo-liberal period while searching for pathways beyond the current plight. In the first chapters, titled 'Theoretical Forays,' Meeks makes a conscious attempt to engage with contemporary Caribbean political thought at a moment of flux and search for a relevant theoretical language and style to both explicate the Caribbean's recent past and confront the difficult conditions of the early twenty-first century. The next part, 'Caribbean Questions,' both retrospective and biographical, retraces the author's own engagement with the University of the West Indies (UWI), the short-lived but influential Caribbean Black Power movement, the work of seminal Trinidadian thinker and activist Lloyd Best, Cuba's relationship with Jamaica, and the crisis and collapse of the Grenadian Revolution. As evident in its title, 'Jamaican Journeys,' the concluding section excerpts and extracts from a longer, more sustained engagement with Jamaican politics and society. Much of Meeks' argument builds around the notion that Jamaica faces a crucial moment, as the author seeks to chart and explain its convoluted political path and dismal economic performance over the past three decades. Meeks remains surprisingly optimistic as he suggests that despite the emptying of sovereignty in the increasingly globalized world, windows to enhanced human development might open through policies of greater democracy and popular inclusion"--$$cProvided by publisher. 000736772 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000736772 60010 $$aMeeks, Brian. 000736772 61020 $$aUniversity of the West Indies. 000736772 650_0 $$aPolitical science$$zWest Indies. 000736772 650_0 $$aRadicalism$$zWest Indies. 000736772 650_0 $$aNeoliberalism$$zWest Indies. 000736772 650_0 $$aPostcolonialism$$zWest Indies. 000736772 651_0 $$aWest Indies$$xPolitics and government. 000736772 651_0 $$aCaribbean Area$$xPolitics and government. 000736772 651_0 $$aWest Indies$$xColonial influence. 000736772 651_0 $$aJamaica$$xPolitics and government. 000736772 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aMeeks, Brian.$$tCritical interventions in Caribbean politics and theory.$$dJackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2014]$$z9781628461213$$w(DLC) 2014013903 000736772 830_0 $$aCaribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.) 000736772 852__ $$bebk 000736772 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/usiricelib/Doc?id=10991677$$zOnline Access 000736772 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:736772$$pGLOBAL_SET 000736772 980__ $$aEBOOK 000736772 980__ $$aBIB 000736772 982__ $$aEbook 000736772 983__ $$aOnline