Euro-Caribbean Societies in the 21st Century

<p>This edited collection examines the realities of the last remnants of the European colonial empires in the Caribbean namely the British Dutch and French overseas territories. </p><p></p><p>Although known and perhaps infamous for their role as high-end tourist destinations and financial centres these small jurisdictions are complex and multifaceted places. While this volume considers their role as financial centres it does so from alternative and original perspectives by examining how the sector shapes the internal dynamics of these Caribbean societies and how it is itself shaped by global trends. A range of contributions is included that highlight other key issues. Political relations between the territories and their metropolitan centres and with the European Union are the focus of several chapters highlighting the stresses and strains and in many cases the unfulfilled expectations of devolved governance. Further chapters describe the economic instability and factors of political conflict faced by some of these societies and the available options to address them. Finally several chapters reflect more specifically on the territories’ internal social and ethnic dynamics and the hierarchies and inequalities that result.</p><p></p><p>Bringing together a variety of different disciplinary perspectives from political science to sociology and from anthropology to geography this book will be of great interest to any academic or student who wishes to see how an often overlooked part of the world is actually a key site of socio-economic transformation and a crucial nexus in global affairs.</p><p></p><p><b>Sébastien Chauvin</b> is a sociologist and an Associate Professor at the Institut des Sciences Sociales at the University of Lausanne Switzerland. His research deals with immigration citizenship gender sexuality law and labour in France and the USA. With Bruno Cousin he has also developed a multi-sited research programme on social and symbolic capital and the cultural sociology of economic élites with a focus on Western Europe (élite male social club sociability) the Caribbean region (Saint-Barthélemy) and new forms of conspicuous consumption among the global super-rich. His other ongoing writing explores the intersections of race nationalism sexuality and citizenship in the Netherlands France and the USA. </p><p><b>Peter Clegg</b> is Associate Professor in Politics and Head of the Department of Health and Social Sciences at the University of the West of England Bristol UK. He was formerly Visiting Research Fellow at both KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of South East Asian and Caribbean Studies Leiden Netherlands and at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) University of the West Indies Jamaica. His main research interests focus on contemporary developments within the United Kingdom Overseas Territories and the international political economy of the Caribbean. </p><p>Bruno Cousin is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Sciences Po France and an affiliate of the Centre of European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) France. Previously he was Assistant Professor at the University of Lille France and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University USA and has held visiting positions at NYU the University of Amsterdam and Birkbeck. His research interests focus on class relations residential segregation social capital and forms of bourgeois sociability and the modes of élites’ legitimization. He is currently conducting research with Sébastien Chauvin on Saint-Barthélemy (French West Indies) whose first results have been published in <i>Ethnologie française </i>and <i>Geographies of the Super-Rich </i>(2013) and he has recently co-authored <i>Ce que les riches pensent des pauvres </i>(2017).</p>