内容简介：
As an overseas department of France, Guadeloupe is one of a handful of non-independent societies in the Caribbean that seem like political exceptions—or even paradoxes—in our current postcolonial era. In Non-Sovereign Futures, Yarimar Bonilla wrestles with the conceptual arsenal of political modernity—challenging contemporary notions of freedom, sovereignty, nationalism, and revolution—in order to recast Guadeloupe not as a problematically non-sovereign site but as a place that can unsettle how we think of sovereignty itself.
Through a deep ethnography of Guadeloupean labor activism, Bonilla examines how Caribbean political actors navigate the conflicting norms and desires produced by the modernist project of postcolonial sovereignty. Exploring the political and historical imaginaries of activist communities, she examines their attempts to forge new visions for the future by reconfiguring narratives of the past, especially the histories of colonialism and slavery. Drawing from nearly a decade of ethnographic research, she shows that political participation—even in failed movements—has social impacts beyond simple material or economic gains. Ultimately, she uses the cases of Guadeloupe and the Caribbean at large to offer a more sophisticated conception of the possibilities of sovereignty in the postcolonial era.
作者简介：
Yarimar Bonilla is associate professor of anthropology and Caribbean studies at Rutgers University.
目录：
List of Illustrations
Preface / Native Categories and Native Arguments
Timeline of Events
Introduction
Part I: Historical Legacies
One / The Wake of Disenchantment
Two / Strategic Entanglement
Part II: Emerging Transcripts
Three / Life on the Piquet
Four / Public Hunger
Five / The Route of History
Six / Hope and Disappointment
Coda / Transcripts of the Future
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index