Caribbean Land and Development Revisited

Herausgeber: Besson, J.; Momsen, J.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book is an interdisciplinary collection of fifteen essays, with an editorial introduction, on a range of territories in the Commonwealth, Francophone, and Hispanic Caribbean. The authors focus on land and development, providing fresh perspectives through a collection of international contributing authors.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Nature Singapore
• 2007 edition
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9781349534609
• ISBN-10: 1349534609
• Artikelnr.: 45080716

Autorenporträt

JEAN BESSON (M.A., Ph.D. Edinburgh), a Jamaican, is Reader in Anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, England.  She has carried out research in Jamaica and the Eastern Caribbean on cultural history, peasantries, land tenure, development, kinship, gender, and religion. Her publications include Land and Development in the Caribbean (co-edited with Janet Momsen, Macmillan, 1987); Martha Brae's Two Histories: European Expansion and Caribbean Culture-Building in Jamaica (2002); and Caribbean Narratives of Belonging: Fields of Relations, Sites of Identity (co-edited with Karen Fog Olwig, Macmillan, 2005).  JANET MOMSEN is Professor of Geography in the Department of Human and Community Development at the University of California, Davis. She has a B.A. and B.Litt. from Oxford, a M.Sc. from McGill, and a Ph.D. from London.  Her research interests include gender and development, rural development and tourism in the Caribbean, Mexico, Eastern Europe and Bangladesh. Professor Momsen's publications on the Caribbean include Land and Development in the Caribbean (co-edited with Jean Besson, Macmillan, 1987); Women and Change in the Caribbean (1993); and Environmental Planning in the Caribbean (with Jonathan Pugh, 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; J.Besson& J.Momsen PART I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON LAND
AND CROP PRODUCTION  The Importance of the 1897 British Royal Commission;
B.C. Richardson The Colonial Office and Soil Conservation in the British
Caribbean, 1938-1950; L.S. Grossman Domestic Food Production in Guadeloupe
in World War II; G.Taitt  Cuba's Farmers' Markets in the "Special Period",
1990-1995; R.Torres, J.Momsen& D.A.Niemeier PART II: POLICY, PLANNING, AND
MANAGEMENT  Land, Development, and Indigenous Rights in Suriname: The Role
of International Human Rights Law; E-R.Kambel  The Management of State
Lands in Trinidad and Tobago; J.D. Stanfield& A.A. Wijetunga The
Participation Paradox: Stories from St. Lucia; J.Pugh Land Disputes and
Development Activity in the Dominican Republic; D. Mcleod Land Policy in
Jamaica in the Decade after AGENDA 21; L.A. Miller& D.Barker PART III: LAND
FOR THE PEASANTRY? "Squatting" as a Strategy for Land Settlement and
Sustainable Development; J.Besson The Triumph of the Commons: Barbuda
Belongs to All Barbudans Together; D.Lowenthal& C.Clarke The Contested
Existence of a Peasantry in Martinique: Scientific Discourses,
Controversies and Evidence; C.Chivallon The Waxing and Waning of Land for
the Peasantry in Barbados; J.Momsen Agro-biodiversity as an Environmental
Management Tool in Small Scale Farming Landscapes: Implications for
Agro-Chemical Use; B.Spence & E.Thomas-Hope PART IV: LANDSCAPE, MIGRATION,
AND DEVELOPMENT Arboreal Landscapes of Power and Resistance; M.Sheller From
the Pre-Colonial to the Virtual: The Scope and Scape of Land, Landuse and
Landloss on Montserrat; J.Skinner "Leave to Come Back": The Importance of
Family Land in a Transnational Caribbean Community; B.Mills Collateral and
Achievement: Land and Caribbean Migration; M.Byron