Description
Caribbean cities are a unique yet underexposed phenomenon. Their distinctiveness results from a combination of interrelated factors including a history of slavery, development under the hemispheric hegemony of the United States and spatial limitations imposed by the settings of most Caribbean urban areas.
The innovative volume presents a detailed introduction to the spatial, socio-cultural and economic characteristics of the Caribbean city, followed by case studies of selected cities in the Dutch, Hispanophone, Francophone and Anglophone Caribbean. It discusses a broad range of disciplinary approaches in examining the urban Caribbean, incorporating perspectives from anthropology, sociology, history, political science, geography and literary and cultural criticism.
About the Author
Rivke Jaffe is a former Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work at the University of the West Indies, Mona. Her research interests include Caribbean studies, urban anthropology and the urban environment.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
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- The Caribbean City: An Introduction – Rivke Jaffe, Ad de Bruijne and Aart Schalkwijk
- Colonial Influences on Urban Form in the Caribbean: Illustrated by Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago – Asad Mohammed
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- The Evolution of Urban Housing Policy in the British West Indies, 1929−1960s – Richard Harris
- Colonizing the New Deal: Federal Housing in San Juan, Puerto Rico – Marygrace Tyrrell
- The Political Economy of Jamaica’s Inner-City Violence: A Special Case? – Mark Figueroa, Anthony Harriott and Nicola Satchell
- Class, Unemployment and Housing Problems in Kingston, Jamaica since Independence
Colin Clarke and David Howard
- Ethnic Residential Patterns in Paramaribo: Spatial Segregation or Blending? – Ad de Bruijne and Aart Schalkwijk
- Fragmented Cities: Social Capital and Space in Urban Curaçao and Jamaica – Rivke Jaffe
- Caché vs. Casheríos: Urban Development, Distinction and Segregation in Puerto Rican Neighbourhoods – Zaire Z. Dinzey Flores
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- Making a Living: Small-Scale Metal Smelting as a Livelihood Strategy in Kingston, Jamaica – David R. Dodman
- Working From Home: Urban Livelihoods in Low-Income Surinamese and Trinidadian Households – Hebe Verrest
- Clarke’s Two Vitamin Cs for Successful Living: Calypso and Christianity in Urban SXM – Francio Guadeloupe
- Urban Space in the French Caribbean Crime Novel: Confiant and Chamoiseau – Liesbeth De Bleeker
- La Dernière Des Races Après Les Crapauds Ladres: Confiant’s Citizens and Terroir in Mamzelle Libellule – Kathleen Gyssels
