Caribbean Island Movements: Culebra's Transinsularities

✍ Scribed by Carlo A Cubero

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 206
• Series: Rethinking the Island
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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".

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of contents
Preface
Chapter One Transinsularism from a Caribbean Perspective
General Views of Caribbean Insularities and Mobilities
Plantation
Creole
Transnationalism
The Site
Chapter Two Militarisation and Culebra’s Transinsular Precedents
Colonisation of Passage Island
The Arrival of The U.S. Navy
U.s. Navy Claims Culebra
Culebrenses Claim Culebra
The Aftermath
Conclusion
Chapter Three Conflicted Visions of Land
Visions of Consumable Landscapes
Mobile Insularities
Litigation Over Coastal Access
The Coastal Gentrification Argument
Discrepant Networks in Culebra’s Landscape
Romero’s Rejection of The Noble Savage: Two Instances
Costa Bonita
Estudios Técnicos, Inc.
Binaries Nonetheless
Notes
Chapter Four Working the Ubiquitous Seas
Introduction: How is The Sea?
The Atlantic
The Ship
The Culebra Fishermen’s Association
The Fishing Reserve
Snapperfarm
Conclusion: The Ubiquity of The Sea
Notes
Chapter Five Musical Movements
Music and Place
The Spanish Caribbean: Salsa, From Transnationalism to Nationhood
The English Caribbean: The Steel Band Movement of Trinidad and Tobago
Musical Mobile Insularities
The Sounds of Culebra I: La Sonora Culebrense
The Sounds of Culebra II: Los Isleños
The Sounds of Culebra III: The Culebra Municipal Steel Band
The Sounds of Culebra IV: La Wiki Sound
Sounds of Culebra: Calypso
Mobile Insularities or Improvised Structures in Culebra’s Social Relations
Notes
Conclusion: An Eye on the Creative Tension
References
Index