Decolonization in St. Lucia: Politics and Global Neoliberalism, 1945–2010 (Caribbean Studies Series)

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Tennyson S. D. Joseph builds upon current research on the anticolonial and nationalist experience in the Caribbean. He explores the affect of global transformation upon the independent experience of St. Lucia and argues that the island’s formal decolonization kind of coincided with the period of the upward push of global neoliberalism hegemony. In consequence, the concept that of “limited sovereignty” became the defining feature of St. Lucia’s understanding of the possibilities of independence. Central to the analysis is the tension between the role of the state as a facilitator of domestic aspirations on one hand and a facilitator of global capital on the other.

Joseph examines six critical phases in the St. Lucian experience. The first is 1940 to 1970, when the early nationalist movement regularly occupied state power within a framework of limited self-government. The second one period is 1970 to 1982 all through which formal independence used to be attained and an attempt at socialist-oriented radical nationalism used to be pursued by the St. Lucia Labor Party. The third distinctive period used to be the period of neoliberal hegemony, 1982-1990. The fourth period (1990-1997) witnessed a heightened process of neoliberal adjustment in global trade which destroyed the banana industry and transformed the domestic political economy. A later period (1997-2006) involved the SLP’s return to political power, resulting in tensions between an earlier radicalism and a new and contradictory accommodation to global neoliberalism. The final period (2006-2010) coincides with the onset of a crisis in global neoliberalism all through which a series of domestic conflicts reflected the contradictions of the dominant understanding of sovereignty in narrow, materialist terms on the expense of its wider antisystematic, progressive, and emancipator connotations.

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