Overview

This ethnography examines farmers' lives on the island of St. Lucia amidst the threat of market loss for their primary export product, bananas. Karla Slocum's study demonstrates how, when prices for bananas declined and trade policies changes, St. Lucia's banana producers formed a social movement. They deployed their labor and land use practices and discourses in ways that affirmed the meaning of their local communities and their nation rather than taking on global market pressure directly. Slocum reveals how local and national areas remain important to people's lives even when they must live in a globalizing world. Specifically, Slocum's work disagrees with popular claims that globalization overtakes local communities. This book will be of particular interest to those in the fields of social movements and activism, labor, Afro-Caribbean populations and those concerned with African Diaspora studies.

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Author:   Karla Slocum
Publisher:   The University of Michigan Press
Imprint:   The University of Michigan Press
Edition:   Annotated edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.333kg
ISBN:  

9780472099351

ISBN 10:   0472099353
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   26 June 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock  
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Karla Slocum is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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