NACLA Report on the Americas最新文献

{"title":"Apartheid in the Caribbean","authors":"S. Rodríguez","doi":"10.1080/10714839.2023.2247750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10714839.2023.2247750","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":405564,"journal":{"name":"NACLA Report on the Americas","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128658090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Maroons and Indigenous Peoples versus the State in Suriname","authors":"Richard. Price","doi":"10.1080/10714839.2023.2247758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10714839.2023.2247758","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":405564,"journal":{"name":"NACLA Report on the Americas","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126474158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Provoking Us to Change the World","authors":"Roshini Kempadoo","doi":"10.1080/10714839.2023.2247778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10714839.2023.2247778","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":405564,"journal":{"name":"NACLA Report on the Americas","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134309478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"For Afro-Mosquitian LGBT Organizers, Resistance is Survival","authors":"M. White","doi":"10.1080/10714839.2023.2247753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10714839.2023.2247753","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":405564,"journal":{"name":"NACLA Report on the Americas","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116349500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Afterlives of Empire in the Caribbean","authors":"Nicole A. Burrowes, M. Jimenez","doi":"10.1080/10714839.2023.2247733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10714839.2023.2247733","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":405564,"journal":{"name":"NACLA Report on the Americas","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127224013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Guyana’s Oil Dorado","authors":"Janette Bulkan, Roshini Kempadoo, D. Alissa Trotz","doi":"10.1080/10714839.2023.2247759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10714839.2023.2247759","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":405564,"journal":{"name":"NACLA Report on the Americas","volume":"02 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127189565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Snapshots of Maya Self-determination in Southern Belize","authors":"R. Kus, Levi Gahman, A. Greenidge, Filiberto Penados, Shelda-Jane Smith","doi":"10.1080/10714839.2023.2247761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10714839.2023.2247761","url":null,"abstract":"I n southern Belize, the Maya people of Toledo District have been resisting colonial power and state authoritarianism while fighting for territorial rights and self-determination for generations. This is due in part to their deep connection with their ancestral lands, defined by the notions of aj ral ch’och’ (being “children of the Earth”) and se’ komonil (living well together in dignity), which lie at the heart of Maya culture, community, and relations. Over the past three decades, however, state-sponsored industrial logging, mining, and agribusiness activities have increasingly threatened Maya land rights as the government has granted concessions to multinational corporations without consulting Maya villages. To advance their land rights, the Maya have used various tactics and strategies, including legal cases, direct action, and community mobilization. They have also formed alliances with other Indigenous groups and international human rights organizations and researchers to amplify their message and","PeriodicalId":405564,"journal":{"name":"NACLA Report on the Americas","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116223610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Haiti as Empire’s Laboratory","authors":"Jemima Pierre","doi":"10.1080/10714839.2023.2247749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10714839.2023.2247749","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":405564,"journal":{"name":"NACLA Report on the Americas","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121927636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Predatory Perils of Cannabis Legalization in Jamaica","authors":"Kevin Edmonds","doi":"10.1080/10714839.2023.2247762","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10714839.2023.2247762","url":null,"abstract":"I n 1976, reggae legend Peter Tosh released the album and title track Legalize It. Thirty-nine years later, Jamaica revised its ganja laws to build a legal medicinal cannabis (ganja) industry with the hopes of exporting to the world. Many assumed that Jamaica, and the historically marginalized traditional ganja growers, including the Rastafari, would finally be able to cash in on the green gold rush in an industry one venture capital firm called in 2018 “the most compelling opportunity in the history of capitalism.” Today, it may come as a shock to some that the island infamously associated with prolific cannabis cultivation and consumption reported a shortage in 2021 and recently became an importer of Canadian cannabis. As a result, the most vocal opponents of Jamaica’s cannabis reforms are no longer the police or conservative church congregations, but the traditional growers and Rastafari themselves. How could such a seemingly transformative opportunity “go up in smoke” so quickly? Legalization sounds like an obvious, responsible approach to the longstanding and wide-ranging damages stemming from cannabis prohibition and the subsequent war on drugs. However, given the social, economic, and political power imbalances within and between countries, it isn’t that simple. Unchecked, market-based reforms fail to consider the existing power imbalances in both the domestic and international economies, threatening to undermine the potential benefits of legalization. Instead of gaining employment and income-generating opportunities or access to scarce land, traditional cultivators will likely face greater hardships due to being shut out of the emerging legal industry. While often overlooked, these harmful afterlives of legalization and reform under capitalism are, as expected, filled with contradictions and will continue to compound damaging outcomes for the same communities that were disproportionately impacted during prohibition. In the context of the Caribbean, the hard truth is that unless legalization is tied to a wider project of radical socioeconomic transformation and reparatory justice, many of the potential gains from cannabis will be lost due to the imbalanced and exploitative nature of the global economy. Without the emergence of mass movements to seriously challenge government policy, neocolonial states like Jamaica will always defer to domestic elites connected to international investors and corporations. As in the past, government policies shrouded in ostensibly progressive rhetoric will facilitate a massive dispossession of traditional ganja growers from their land and livelihoods in an unprecedented upward transfer of wealth. The consequences of this would be greater economic instability, inequality, unemployment, and violence.","PeriodicalId":405564,"journal":{"name":"NACLA Report on the Americas","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131870479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Straddling Empires, Jamaica Navigates Road to Republic Status","authors":"T. Wint","doi":"10.1080/10714839.2023.2247752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10714839.2023.2247752","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":405564,"journal":{"name":"NACLA Report on the Americas","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134427425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}