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Baksh, Ishmael. 2001. “Education and Equality of Opportunity in Trinidad and Tobago.” In Caribbean sociology: Introductory Readings, by Christine & Reddock, Rhoda Barrow, 712-725. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers Limited.
Beckford, George. 2001. Plantation Society: Toward General Theory of Caribbean. Society. In Christine Barrow and Rhoda Reddock. eds. Caribbean Sociology: Introductory Readings. Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers
Benn, D. M. 2000. “Globalisation and the North-South Divide: Power/Asymmetries in Contemporary International Economic Relations.” In Globalisation A Calculus of Inequality: Perspectives from the South, ed. Denis Benn & Kenneth Hall, 23-37. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers.
Bernal, Richard. 2000“Globalisation and Small Developing Countries: The Imperative from Repositioning.” In Globalisation A Calculus of Inequality: Perspectives from the South, ed. Denis Benn & Kenneth Hall, 88-119. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers, 2000.
Braithwaite, Lloyd E. S.2001. “Social Stratification and Cultural Pluralism.” In Caribbean Sociology:Introductory Readings, by Christine & Reddock, Rhoda Barrow, 176-188. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers limited.
Brown, Dennis. 2002. Industrial Sociology 1. Barbados : University of The West Indies, Distance Learning.
Chevannes, Barry. 2001. ” Riverbreeze.” In Learning to be a Man. Kingston: UWI Press.
Ellis, Pat. 2003.“Women, Gender and Development in the Caribbean: Reflections and Projections.” London, UK: Zed Books Ltd.
Figueroa, Mark. 2004. Male Privileging and Male Academic Performance in Jamaica, in Rhoda Reddock (ed) Masculinities, The UWI Press, Kingston.
George, Susan. A Short History of Neoliberalism: Conference on Economic Sovereignty in a Globalising World, March 24-29, 1999.
Girvan, N. 2000. Globalization and Counter-Globalization: The Caribbean in the Context of the South. In Globalization: A Calculus of Inequality, ed. D.Benn and K.Hall. Jamaica: Ian Randle, Kingston.
Girvan, Norman.2002. Tricks and TRIPS: Foreign Investment and Knowledge Transfer Revisited.
Greene, Edward J. 1993.”RACE, CLASS, and GENDER in the FUTURE in the CARIBBEAN: AN OVERVIEW.” In Race, Class & Gender in the Future of the Caribbean, by Edward J. Greene, 1-14. Jamaica: Lithomedia Printers Ltd.
Hart, Keith. 1996. “Women and the Sexual Division of Labour in the Caribbean.” Canoe Press in collaboration with Consortium Graduate School of Social Sciences.
Kendall, Patrick. 2008.”GLOBALIZATION AND THE CARIBEAN.” Caribbean Development Bank.
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La Guerre, J. G.1993. “A Review of Race and Class in the Caribbean .” In Race, Class & Gender in the Future of the Caribbean, by Edward J. Greene, 15-41. Jamaica: Lithomedia Printers Ltd.
Mustapha, Nasser.2009. “Sociology For Caribbean Studies.” 199-233. Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers.
Parsan, Neil .2012. The impact of Globalization on Africa and the Caribbean Economics.
Puri, Hardeep S. 2010. Rise of the Global South and Its Impact on South-South Cooperation. Development Outreach, India: World Bank Institute.
Rapley, John. 2007.Understanding Development:Theory and Practice in Third World. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
Ritzer, George.2010. Sociological Theory. New York: McGraw-Hill.
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Singh, K. 2002. Globalisation and the Caribbean: A Five Hundred-year Perspective. In Ramsaran, R. ed Caribbean Survival and the Global Challenge, Ian Randle Publishers, Kingston.
Slater, David. 2004. Geopolitics and the Post-colonial Rethinking North-south Relations. Australia. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Smith, M. G. 1965. The Plural Society in the British West Indies. California: University of California Press.
Syed, Hassan. “THE IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION ON THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN REGION.” Journal of the University of the Cayman Islands, 2007: 97-116.
Sylvester, Meagan. “An Examination of the Caribbean’s Response of Globalization.” Focus journal, 2002: 1-5.
Tarrant, Shira. 2009. ” Overview And Introductions: This Is What A Feminist Looks Like.” In Men and Feminism. California: Seal Press.
Thomas, Clive.2002. “Globalisation as Paradigm Shift: Response from the South.” In Globalisation A Calculus of Inequality: Perspectives from the South, ed. Denis Benn & Kenneth Hall, 08-21. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers.
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Dynamics of Neoliberal Globalization
Dynamics of Neoliberal Globalization
Adam Smith’s “Modern Free Market Capitalism”
This economic dimension of globalization permits the free movement of market flows, goods and services without state or government intervention. As such, the market operates as an entity by itself as stated by prominent authors in the field of Neo-liberalism such as Adam Smith, Keynes and Harvey. In the Caribbean the dynamics of neoliberal globalization is most understood in terms of its Structural Adjustment Policies (SAPs) enforced through times of economic crises as seen in the 1980s Jamaica and the 1990’s in Trinidad and Tobago. Neoliberal globalization erodes the presence of preferential trading agreements, taxes and tariffs to permit the free movement of goods and services. This allows for the consumption and use of foreign fashion, music and culinary practices to infiltrate local economies.
The video below shows the extent to which Neoliberalism has facilitated the transmission of goods globally.
Caribbean Social Structure in Global Development
Often enough the Caribbean is portrayed as the untouched paradise, with its’ crystallized waters, hidden getaways and lavish landscapes with enriched flora and fauna. However, the image projected is not without a tumultuous past. It is a past based on colonialism, slavery, indentureship, assimilation, the mixing and diffusion or borrowing of many cultures which have shaped the current social structure of the Caribbean and characterized the region as one that is in flux. Given the Caribbean’s unique history, much understanding of the Caribbean is prevailed by Eurocentric approaches that have largely legitimized polices based on imperialism, power and control that enforced domination and exploitation that have given rise in many ways to the Caribbean structure from a historical, socio-cultural, economic and political level. In a mission to break the Eurocentric ideology, Caribbean Social Scientist such as Norman Girvan, Lloyd Best, Kari Polanyi Levitt, George Beckford, M.G. Smith, have posited outlooks from a Caribbean perspective; they include theories based on the Dependency, Plantation Economy, Creole and Plural Society. Their outlooks have placed greater understanding of the Caribbean Social Structure and its insularity surrounding Race, Class, Gender and Nationality.
Trinidad and Tobago
Photograph by David Alan Harvey
Globalization, Technology and Media
“Technology Connects the World”
According to Daniel Bell’s theory of Information Society there exists three subcomponents of the information society: “the post- industrial information workforce, a second dealing with information flows (particularly scientific knowledge) and a third concerning computers and the information revolution,” (Thompson Reuters, 2014). The topic of Globalization, Technology and Media highlights the third aspect of the Information Society through the use of computers and the information revolution. The use of technology in Information and Communications Technology (ICTs) from cellular phones to super-computers are available to people and businesses throughout the globe. Technology fosters communication through space and time and beyond physical boundaries and has created a global village. Some writers argue that the creation of this global village has led to the cultural erasure due to the assimilation of foreign culture as witnessed through media, news, music and social media, while others posit that the impact of globalization, technology and media has promoted the retention of cultural identity and nationality.
Technology has also impacted the post- industrial workforce by promoting higher productivity in a smaller space of time while reducing the amount of manual labor exerted by workers and a reduction in face-to-face interaction. In some cases companies are fully computer automated and less reliant on human input. As a result technology and media has created a global society of interconnectedness which possess both benefits and implications for persons in global North and South.
Globalization
Globalization is a process, some may argue that it is a ‘500 years phenomenon’ that existed since the beginning of the colonial era and some note it explicitly as ‘a project of the post-Cold War era’. The question of globalization being a historical and cyclical process or a process arising in the present is interpretative and perhaps best left to the impasse that one is drawn to within the varying development theories that exist.
Understanding that globalization is a process, the impact is driven by human activity, which according to C. Thomas, ‘has produced an unmistakable paradigm shift in the way the world is perceived and how it is acted upon.’ Thomas also recognizes, that ‘the interconnectedness of the global society touches all areas of human existence that is economic, social, cultural, political and also environmental.’
The topic of Globalization is one that leaves room for various interpretations, it is indeed highly debatable.
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THOUGHT PROVOKERS: PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT 