Caribbean Island Movements: Culebra&#039;s Transinsularities

Carlo A. Cubero

doi:10.5771/9781783488377

Summary

Caribbean Island Movements explores the different ways in which being mobile is central to the production and reproduction of social identities on the Caribbean island of Culebra. Rather than seeing insularity and mobility, and its associations, as mutually exclusive components, this ethnographic study demonstrates how they mutually inform each other. The book proposes the term of "transinsularism" as a means to articulate the complex ways in which islanders construct a unique place for themselves in the world, while referencing and engaging in practices of movement.

Based on a long term relationship to the Caribbean island of Culebra, it describes how mobile islanders select from various, at times contradictory, discourses and practices in the process of fashioning their sense of island identity. It makes the case for a conscious social creative process where a group of individuals finds ways to narrativise a life-world that operates in tension with structural social forces associated with nation-building, colonialism, and "landed narratives".

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Edition: 1/2017
Copyright year: 2017
ISBN-Print: 978-1-78348-836-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-78348-837-7
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 184
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table of contents No access
2. Preface No access
1. General Views of Caribbean Insularities and Mobilities No access
2. Plantation No access
3. Creole No access
4. Transnationalism No access
5. The Site No access
1. Colonisation of Passage Island No access
2. The Arrival of The U.S. Navy No access
3. U.s. Navy Claims Culebra No access
4. Culebrenses Claim Culebra No access
5. The Aftermath No access
6. Conclusion No access
1. Visions of Consumable Landscapes No access
2. Mobile Insularities No access
3. Litigation Over Coastal Access No access
4. The Coastal Gentrification Argument No access
5. Discrepant Networks in Culebra’s Landscape No access
6. 1. Costa Bonita No access
  2. Estudios Técnicos, Inc. No access
7. Binaries Nonetheless No access
8. Notes No access
1. Introduction: How is The Sea? No access
2. The Atlantic No access
3. The Ship No access
4. The Culebra Fishermen’s Association No access
5. The Fishing Reserve No access
6. Snapperfarm No access
7. Conclusion: The Ubiquity of The Sea No access
8. Notes No access
1. Music and Place No access
2. The Spanish Caribbean: Salsa, From Transnationalism to Nationhood No access
3. The English Caribbean: The Steel Band Movement of Trinidad and Tobago No access
4. Musical Mobile Insularities No access
5. The Sounds of Culebra I: La Sonora Culebrense No access
6. The Sounds of Culebra II: Los Isleños No access
7. The Sounds of Culebra III: The Culebra Municipal Steel Band No access
8. The Sounds of Culebra IV: La Wiki Sound No access
9. Sounds of Culebra: Calypso No access
10. Mobile Insularities or Improvised Structures in Culebra’s Social Relations No access
11. Notes No access
Conclusion: An Eye on the Creative Tension No access Pages 159 - 168
References No access Pages 169 - 174
Index No access Pages 175 - 184