Equaliberty in the Dutch Caribbean

Ways of Being Non/Sovereign

Yvon van der Pijl, Francio Guadeloupe, Yvon van der Pijl, Francio Guadeloupe

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781978818668
  9781978818675
• eBook ISBN:
  9781978818682
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Equaliberty in the Dutch Caribbean is a collection of essays that explores fundamental questions of equality and freedom on the non-sovereign islands of the Dutch Caribbean. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic research, historical and media analysis, the study of popular culture, and autoethnographic accounts, the various contributions challenge conventional assumptions about political non/sovereignty. While the book recognizes the existence of nationalist independence movements, it opens a critical space to look at other forms of political articulation, autonomy, liberty, and a good life. Focusing on all six different islands and through a multitude of voices and stories, the volume engages with the everyday projects, ordinary imaginaries, and dreams of equaliberty alongside the work of independistas and traditional social movements aiming for more or full self-determination. As such, it offers a rich and powerful telling of the various ways of being in and belonging to our contemporary postcolonial world.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• 1. Stories of Autonomy on Non-Sovereign Saba: Flipping the Script of Postcolonial Resistance
• 2. “Education Must Be More!” Imagining and (Re)producing St. Martin/Sint Maarten Belonging
• 3. People from Outside: Transnationalism and Nationness on Twenty-First-Century Curaçao
• 4. The Trinta di Mei Labor Revolt and Its Aftermath: Anticipating a Just and Equitable Curaçaoan Nation
• 5. Some Are More Equal than Others? Human Rights Education at the University of Curaçao’s School of Law
• 6. Thinking, Seeing, and Doing like a Kingdom: The Making of Caribbean Netherlands Statistics and the “Native Bonairian”
• 7. After Free Markets and Foundations: Challenges to Self-Determination on St. Martin
• 8. Sweet Breakaway: Where Equality and Liberty Meet on Aruba
• 9. “We Come out to Free Up”: Movement, Dance, and Liberation in West Indian Calypso
• 10. “It’s Gonna Be Incredible”: Lessons on Being, Becoming, and Belonging from Statian Youth
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgments
• Notes on Contributors
• Index
• Series List