Despite its modest size, the republic of Suriname is today the site of many distinctive processes of globalization. This intersectional study teases out the complex relationships among class, gender, and ethnic identity over the course of Suriname's modern history, from the capital city of Paramaribo to the country's resource-rich rainforest.
Format: Hardback
CONTRIBUTORS: R. Hoefte
EAN: 9781137360120
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 5656 g
HEIGHT: 229 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED: 2013-12-18
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GENRE: HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
WIDTH: 152 cm
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Book Themes:
Social groups, communities and identities, Gender studies, gender groups, History, History of the Americas, Social and cultural history, Colonialism and imperialism
Rosemarijn Hoefte is Senior Researcher and coordinator of the Caribbean Expert Center at KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies in Leiden, the Netherlands. Her previous publications include (with Lisa Djasmadi & Hariëtte Mingoen) Migratie en cultureel erfgoed: Verhalen van Javanen in Suriname, Indonesië en Nederland (2010), (with Peter Meel & Hans Renders eds) Tropenlevens: De [post]koloniale biografie (2008), (with co-editor Peter Meel) Twentieth-Century Suriname: Continuities and Discontinuities in a New World Society (2001), and In Place of Slavery: A Social History of British Indian and Javanese Laborers in Suriname (1998).
