Featherstone, David (2016) Caribbean Maritime Labour and the Politicisation of In/security. Working Paper. University of Birmingham. (Unpublished)
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Abstract
In his essay ‘The Politics of Power and Violence: Rethinking the political in the Caribbean’ Anthony Bogues contends that thinking of ‘power as a field of force’ which ‘exists in other ways than in conventional state forms’ can be productive in understanding ‘geographical spaces of violence and death’ and ‘re-mapping sovereignty’ (Bogues, 2007: 198-199). He argues that doing so forces the rethinking of ‘the relationship between violence and power’, cracks ‘open homogeneous conceptions about subaltern counter-hegemonic practices’ and allows us ‘to interrogate the nation state in its postcolony iteration while thinking differently about the meaning of the political and sovereignty’.
This working paper contributes to these debates about the relations between the political and questions of in/security with a particular focus on the spaces through which subaltern counter-hegemonic practices have been shaped and articulated. It develops these problematics through discussion of struggles over the terms on which maritime labour organisers from the Caribbean contested the ‘white labourism’ of the National Union of Seamen in British ports in the 1930s.
| Type of Work: | Monograph (Working Paper) | ||||||
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| School/Faculty: | Colleges (2008 onwards) > College of Life & Environmental Sciences | ||||||
| Number of Pages: | 7 | ||||||
| Department: | School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences | ||||||
| References: | Adi, H. (2013) Pan-Africanism and Communism: the Communist International, Africa and the Diaspora, 1919-1939. New Jersey, Africa World Press.
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| Additional Information: | About CARISCC
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| Date: | 14 September 2016 | ||||||
| Projects: | CARISCC | ||||||
| Series/Collection Name: | Caribbean In/Securities: Creativity and Negotiation in the Caribbean (CARISCC) Working Papers Series | ||||||
| Keywords: | Caribbean Studies, Caribbean in/securities, Caribbean Creativity, Caribbean History | ||||||
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) | ||||||
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| Funders: | The Leverhulme Trust | ||||||
| Copyright Status: | This working paper is copyright of the University and the author. In addition, parts of the paper may feature content whose copyright is owned by a third party, but which has been used either by permission or under the Fair Dealing provisions. The intellectual property rights in respect of this work are as defined by the terms of any licence that is attached to the paper. Where no licence is associated with the work, any subsequent use is subject to the terms of The Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (or as modified by any successor legislation). Any reproduction of the whole or part of this paper must be in accordance with the licence or the Act (whichever is applicable) and must be properly acknowledged. For non-commercial research and for private study purposes, copies of the paper may be made/distributed and quotations used with due attribution. Commercial distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the permission of the copyright holders. | ||||||
| Copyright Holders: | Dr David Featherstone, University of Birmingham | ||||||
| ID Code: | 2224 |
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