Envisioning Caribbean futures : Jamaican perspectives / Brian Meeks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meeks, Brian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social movements--Jamaica.

Social movements.

Postmodernism--Jamaica.

Postmodernism.

Liberalism--Jamaica.

Liberalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Employing critical analysis of Caribbean intellectual thought and of the postcolonial political economy, Brian Meeks sets about proposing a manifesto for the future. What emerges is a programme for the medium term, which is pragmatic in its efforts to deal with the current crisis without engaging in the romanticism of an all-encompassing revolutionary transformation. Meeks suggests a form of participatory reorganization without, necessarily, dismantling the fundamentals of formal democratic organization. Particular emphasis is placed on rural agro-producers because their empowerment, politically and economically, resolves the problem of elite domination while creating the conditions for economic democracy. He argues, finally, that the proposals can become the basis for a more fundamental social and intellectual transformation from, following Sylvia Wynter, "man" to "human," based on democracy, community and solidarity.

Contents:

Intro

contents

acknowledgements

abbreviations

social living

explorations in new caribbean thought

jamaica in a time of neo-liberal infatuation

imagining the future

solidarity

bibliography

index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 19, 2016).

OCLC:

636888395