Norman girvan-reinterpreting the caribbean

          Norman Girvan discusses the various definitions and perspectives of what constitutes the Caribbean region.!

          Reinterpreting the Caribbean -

          Norman Girvan –

          To be published in New Caribbean Thought , Folke Lindahl and Brian Meeks, eds., Forthcoming, UWI Press, Definition What constitutes the Caribbean?

          1 Norman Girvan 'Reinterpreting the Caribbean' in Dennis Pantin (ed) The Caribbean 9 Girvan 'Reinterpreting the Caribbean' Culture and Heritage.

          The answer is often a matter of perspective and of context. Anglophones in the region usually speak and think of the Caribbean as meaning the English-speaking islands, or the member states of the Caribbean Community (Caricom). Sometimes the phrase “the wider Caribbean” is employed to refer to what is, in effect, “the others”.

          In the Hispanic literature El Caribe refers either to the Spanishspeaking islands only, or to Las Antillas —the entire islands chain.

          Girvan, Norman Paul · Economic theory and development options for the Caribbean: the Sir Arthur Lewis Memorial.

        1. Girvan, Norman Paul · Economic theory and development options for the Caribbean: the Sir Arthur Lewis Memorial.
        2. The Caribbean is a socio-historical category, commonly referring to a cultural zone characterised by the legacy of slavery and the plantation system.
        3. Norman Girvan discusses the various definitions and perspectives of what constitutes the Caribbean region.
        4. Indeed, his awareness allowed him to write the interesting book chapter calling for “Reinterpreting the Caribbean.” In the article, Girvan acknowledged.
        5. The definition of the Caribbean might be based on language and identity, geography, history and culture, geopolitics, geoeconomics, or organisation.

          6. More recently a distinction is being made between El Caribe insular —the islands—and El Gran Caribe — the Greater Caribbean, or entire basin. Among scholars, “the Caribbean” is a sociohistorical category, commonly referring to a cultural zone characterised by the legacy of slavery and the plantation system.

          It embraces the islands and