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Overview"Employing critical analysis of Caribbean intellectual thought and of the postcolonial political economy, Brian Meeks sets about proposing a manifesto for the future. What emerges is a programme for the medium term, which is pragmatic in its efforts to deal with the current crisis without engaging in the romanticism of an all-encompassing revolutionary transformation. Meeks suggests a form of participatory reorganization without, necessarily, dismantling the fundamentals of formal democratic organization. Particular emphasis is placed on rural agro-producers because their empowerment, politically and economically, resolves the problem of elite domination while creating the conditions for economic democracy. He argues, finally, that the proposals can become the basis for a more fundamental social and intellectual transformation from, following Sylvia Wynter, ""man"" to ""human"", based on democracy, community and solidarity." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Brian MeeksPublisher: University of the West Indies Press Imprint: University of the West Indies Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.330kg ISBN: 9789766402006ISBN 10: 9766402000 Pages: 212 Publication Date: 30 July 2007 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsThis new book, from one of the region's leading thinkers in social and political thought, breaks new ground in critical analysis and prescription. Meeks...points to the shortcomings of the current neo-liberal economic model and proposes for a new paradigm of development that is democratic, inclusive and empowering of the majority of the population. Deserves to be widely read and debated. - Norman Girvan, Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago The book is a manifesto for dealing with the crisis of globalization in the postcolony through reorganization of the system, structure and processes of governance and through the reformulation of economic organization toward forms of economic democracy...There is much to engage with in Meeks's book, which is just what superlative scholarship is all about. - Percy Hintzen, University of California, Berkeley Author InformationBrian Meeks is Senior Lecturer and Head, Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. Folke Lindahl is Associate Professor of political theory at James Madison College, Michigan State University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |