Norman Girvan http://www.normangirvan.info Caribbean Political Economy Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:11:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 normangirvan/Xlodhttp://feedburner.google.com English versions of essays in El Caribe http://www.normangirvan.info/english-versions-of-essays-in-el-caribe/ http://www.normangirvan.info/english-versions-of-essays-in-el-caribe/#comments Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:11:15 +0000 Norman Girvan http://www.normangirvan.info/?p=10304

English versions of Essays in El Caribe: Dependencia, Integración y Soberanía by Norman Girvan (Santiago de Cuba: Casa del Caribe/Editorial Oriente, 2012)

  1. Reinterpreting the Caribbean at http://www.normangirvan.info/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/reinterpreting-the-caribbean-2001.pdf
  2. Caribbean Dependency Thought Revisited,  http://www.normangirvan.info/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/caribbean-dependency-thought-cjds_sept-2006.pdf
  3. Plantation Economy in the Age of Globalization. http://www.normangirvan.info/girvan-plantation-economy/
  4. Caribbean Integration and ‘Global Europe’: Implications of the EPA for the CSME http://www.normangirvan.info/caribbean-integration-and-global-europe-norman-girvan/
  5. Is ALBA a New Model of Integration? Reflections on the CARICOM experience. http://www.normangirvan.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/girvan-alba-and-caricom-lmet-revised2.pdf
  6. CARICOM’s Elusive Quest for Economic Integration. http://www.normangirvan.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/girvan-cdb-final-apr252010.pdf :
  7. Existential Threats in the Caribbean: CLR James Memorial Lecture 2011 http://www.normangirvan.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/girvan-clr-james-lecture-revised.pdf
  8. Reflections on armed violence and development in the Caribbean. http://www.normangirvan.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/reflections-on-the-armed-violence-and-development-in-the-caribbean.pdf

 

]]> http://www.normangirvan.info/english-versions-of-essays-in-el-caribe/feed/ 0 Integration for true independence, Tania Garcia http://www.normangirvan.info/integration-for-true-independence-tania-garcia/ http://www.normangirvan.info/integration-for-true-independence-tania-garcia/#comments Fri, 14 Jun 2013 01:06:47 +0000 Norman Girvan http://www.normangirvan.info/?p=10290 Commentary on El Caribe: dependencia, integración y soberanía by Norman Girvan, International Book Fair, Havana, February 17, 2013.

This book is an important contribution to the formation and renovation of alternative thought in Latin America and the Caribbean; a necessity for action at decisive moments in the struggle for the independence and sovereignty of our nations…

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]]> http://www.normangirvan.info/integration-for-true-independence-tania-garcia/feed/ 0 Social and Solidarity Economy: real alternative to neoliberal development or just another intellectual fashion? A Note http://www.normangirvan.info/social-and-solidarity-economy-real-alternative-to-neoliberal-development-or-just-another-intellectual-fashion-a-note/ http://www.normangirvan.info/social-and-solidarity-economy-real-alternative-to-neoliberal-development-or-just-another-intellectual-fashion-a-note/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 12:00:54 +0000 Norman Girvan http://www.normangirvan.info/?p=10282 A reflection, from a Caribbean perspective,  on a recent international conference on the potential and limits of social and solidarity economy.

In the Caribbean SSE is a tradition that goes at least as far back as to the mutual aid practices in free villages formed by newly emancipated persons after 1838; and similar practices of formerly indentured labourers…

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]]> http://www.normangirvan.info/social-and-solidarity-economy-real-alternative-to-neoliberal-development-or-just-another-intellectual-fashion-a-note/feed/ 1 Caribbean Plantation Economies in Historical Perspective http://www.normangirvan.info/caribbean-plantation-economies-in-historical-perspective/ http://www.normangirvan.info/caribbean-plantation-economies-in-historical-perspective/#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 04:01:43 +0000 Norman Girvan http://www.normangirvan.info/?p=10274 Frank Moya Pons, the most widely read historian of the Dominican Republic, set out to write a book that reveals the structural similarities of Caribbean economies of diverse colonial affiliation and the continuities of their experience through historical time. For my review of this excellent book click here

]]> http://www.normangirvan.info/caribbean-plantation-economies-in-historical-perspective/feed/ 1 Underachieving T&T http://www.normangirvan.info/underachieving-tt/ http://www.normangirvan.info/underachieving-tt/#comments Sat, 04 May 2013 18:23:30 +0000 Norman Girvan http://www.normangirvan.info/?p=10269 I comment on a new book by Dr Terrence Farrell on the economic development experience of Trinidad and Tobago since Independence. Click here  ]]> http://www.normangirvan.info/underachieving-tt/feed/ 0 Does Caribbean economic integration have a future? (Video), Norman Girvan http://www.normangirvan.info/girvan-future-integration/ http://www.normangirvan.info/girvan-future-integration/#comments Sat, 13 Apr 2013 14:15:34 +0000 Norman Girvan http://www.normangirvan.info/?p=10262 Does Caribbean integration have a future? Whichever configuration of the Caribbean we talk about, an economically integrated region seems to be remote. The only areas of relatively successful regional integration are functional cooperation; intra-Caribbean migration, and cultural intercourse.

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]]> http://www.normangirvan.info/girvan-future-integration/feed/ 0 The Political Economy of Race in the Caribbean and the Americas, Norman Girvan http://www.normangirvan.info/the-political-economy-of-race-in-the-caribbean-and-the-americas-norman-girvan/ http://www.normangirvan.info/the-political-economy-of-race-in-the-caribbean-and-the-americas-norman-girvan/#comments Sun, 07 Apr 2013 17:01:10 +0000 Norman Girvan http://www.normangirvan.info/?p=9891 First published in 1975, this paper argues that the vastly different terms on which Africans, native Americans and Europeans were incorporated  into capitalist accumulation in the Americas underlie the concrete forms of embedded racism that continue to be seen in these societies, as well as the ideologies and politics of resistance. Of relevance to the on-going debate over race in the Americas. 
 

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]]> http://www.normangirvan.info/the-political-economy-of-race-in-the-caribbean-and-the-americas-norman-girvan/feed/ 2 La economía política de la raza en el Caribe y las Américas, Norman Girvan http://www.normangirvan.info/la-economia-politica-de-la-raza-en-el-caribe-y-las-americas-norman-girvan/ http://www.normangirvan.info/la-economia-politica-de-la-raza-en-el-caribe-y-las-americas-norman-girvan/#comments Sun, 07 Apr 2013 16:34:03 +0000 Norman Girvan http://www.normangirvan.info/?p=10254 Publicado originalmente en 1975, este ensayo sostiene que los términos muy diferentes en los cuales los africanos, los pueblos originarios americanos y los europeos se incorporaron a la acumulación capitalista en las Américas subyacen a las formas concretas de racismo implícito que siguen se observa en estas sociedades, así como las ideologías y la política de resistencia. De relevancia para el debate en curso sobre la raza en América.
 

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]]> http://www.normangirvan.info/la-economia-politica-de-la-raza-en-el-caribe-y-las-americas-norman-girvan/feed/ 1 Aid Dependency and the ‘Begging Bowl’, Norman Girvan http://www.normangirvan.info/aid-dependency-and-the-begging-bowl-norman-girvan/ http://www.normangirvan.info/aid-dependency-and-the-begging-bowl-norman-girvan/#comments Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:51:00 +0000 Norman Girvan http://www.normangirvan.info/?p=10228 The EU decision to apply ‘Differentiation’ in its aid programme has caused consternation in the Caribbean. But could this be a blessing in disguise?

 

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]]> http://www.normangirvan.info/aid-dependency-and-the-begging-bowl-norman-girvan/feed/ 0 Debating Cuba-Caribbean, Esteban Morales, Norman Girvan http://www.normangirvan.info/debating-cuba-caribbean-esteban-morales-norman-girvan/ http://www.normangirvan.info/debating-cuba-caribbean-esteban-morales-norman-girvan/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2013 01:00:49 +0000 Norman Girvan http://www.normangirvan.info/?p=10221 Do Cubans see themselves as part of a Caribbean family? Are there historical, social and cultural reasons for a ‘Caribbean Cuba’ and how does the Caribbean appear in the Cuban imaginary? How is this conditioned by attitudes to race in Cuban society? A conversation taking place within Cuba and between Cuban and Anglo-Caribbean scholars…

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