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Bonilla Ramos, Yarimar.

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A striking past: Labor and the politics of history in Guadeloupe.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A striking past: Labor and the politics of history in Guadeloupe./
Author:	Bonilla Ramos, Yarimar.
Description:	218 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-04, Section: A, page: 1418.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-04A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3309007
ISBN:	9780549565574

A striking past: Labor and the politics of history in Guadeloupe.
Bonilla Ramos, Yarimar.

A striking past: Labor and the politics of history in Guadeloupe. - 218 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-04, Section: A, page: 1418.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2008.

This dissertation examines the contemporary labor movement in Guadeloupe as a form of both political and historical praxis. I weave together a close ethnographic analysis of political participation and transformation (on the picket line, during demonstrations, rallies, and direct actions) with an examination of the historical imaginaries that both inform, and are themselves produced through, union practice. I am particularly concerned with how the complicated histories of slavery and colonialism are brought to bear on contemporary political projects in the French Antilles. Over the course of this dissertation, I explore both how these histories give shape to contemporary political action, as well as how they themselves become sites of political intervention.

ISBN: 9780549565574Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

A striking past: Labor and the politics of history in Guadeloupe.
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