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{"title":"Globalizing the Caribbean: Political Economy, Social Change and the Transnational Capitalist Class by Jeb Sprague (review)","authors":"Miguel A. Rivera-Quiñones","doi":"10.1353/crb.2022.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/crb.2022.0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42747,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal American and Caribbean Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74860561","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":"Factors influencing aflatoxin contamination in Haiti's peanut commodity chain","authors":"Frantz Roby Point Du Jour, P. Mundler","doi":"10.1353/crb.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/crb.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Aflatoxins in crops pose a risk to food safety and have been detected in samples of Haitian peanuts. Using an interdisciplinary commodity chain approach, this paper examines the factors that increase the likelihood of aflatoxin contamination in the country's peanut supply. The results indicate that contamination risk is influenced by political, organizational, institutional, socio-economic, technological, and environmental constraints. A systemic analysis was performed to examine how such factors affect the quality of peanuts as they pass through the commodity chain. The results of our study offer broad insights into the challenges of preventing aflatoxins and protecting food safety in Haiti.Resumen:Las aflatoxinas en los cultivos representan un riesgo para la seguridad alimentaria y se han detectado en muestras de maní haitiano. Utilizando un enfoque interdisciplinario de cadena de productos básicos, este documento examina los factores que aumentan la probabilidad de contaminación por aflatoxinas en el suministro de maní del país. Los resultados indican que el riesgo de contaminación está influenciado por restricciones políticas, organizacionales, institucionales, socioeconómicas, tecnológicas y ambientales. Se realizó un análisis sistémico para examinar cómo dichos factores afectan la calidad del maní a medida que pasan por la cadena productiva. Los resultados de nuestro estudio ofrecen amplias perspectivas sobre los desafíos de prevenir las aflatoxinas y proteger la seguridad alimentaria en Haití.Résumé:Les aflatoxines représentent un danger pour la sécurité alimentaire et leur présence a été signalée dans des échantillons d'arachide en Haïti. Cet article utilise l'approche interdisciplinaire de l'analyse des filières pour examiner les différents facteurs qui participent à l'altération de la qualité des produits du producteur au consommateur final. Les résultats mettent en évidence des contraintes politiques, organisationnelles, institutionnelles, socioéconomiques, technologiques et environnementales. Un schéma systémique montre les liens entre ces facteurs et la manière dont ils contribuent à affecter la qualité des produits dans la filière arachide. Cette étude ouvre ainsi sur une meilleure compréhension des défis relatifs à la prévention des aflatoxines et la préservation de l'innocuité alimentaire en Haïti.","PeriodicalId":42747,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal American and Caribbean Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78374800","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":"El realineamiento de los registros generacionales y posicionamientos políticos y sociales de la juventud al este de Puerto Rico","authors":"Lizandra Torres Martínez","doi":"10.1353/crb.2022.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/crb.2022.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this article, we analyze the visions that university students have in the eastern part of Puerto Rico about the economic crisis and how it impacts their social and political positions. As well, how they define themselves and the lifestyles they promote. We understand that on the island we are witnessing a breakdown of the intergenerational consensus that responds to a complex reality, which has as its setting a country in crisis, mostly populated by adults, and oriented towards consumption and media culture. That idea of a future in which adults, inspired by intergenerational solidarity, would be responsible for directing the destiny of the new generations entered crisis, resulting in the creation of new forms of resistance and negotiation of young people against authority figures.Resumen:En este artículo se analizan las visiones particulares que tienen estudiantes universitarios en la zona este de Puerto Rico sobre la crisis económica y cómo impacta sus posicionamientos sociales y políticos. Igualmente, cómo se definen a sí mismos y los estilos de vida que promueven. Partimos del entendido de que en la isla asistimos a una ruptura del consenso intergeneracional que responde a una realidad compleja, que tiene como escenario un país en crisis, mayormente poblado por personas adultas, y orientado hacia el consumo y la cultura mediática. Aquella idea de un futuro en el que los adultos, inspirados en la solidaridad intergeneracional, serían los responsables de dirigir el destino de las nuevas generaciones entró en crisis, trayendo como resultado la creación de nuevas formas de resistencia y de negociación de los jóvenes frente a las figuras de autoridad.Resumé:Dans cet article, nous analysons les visions particulières que les étudiants universitaires ont dans la zone orientale de Porto Rico, sur la crise économique et son impact sur leurs positions sociales et politiques. Également, c'est ainsi qu'ils se définissent et les modes de vie qu'ils promeuvent. Nous partons du constat que sur l'île nous assistons à une rupture du consensus intergénérationnel qui répond à une réalité complexe, qui a pour décor un pays en crise, majoritairement peuplé d'adultes, et orienté vers la consommation et la culture médiatique. Cette idée d'un avenir dans lequel les adultes, inspirés par la solidarité intergénérationnelle, seraient chargés d'orienter le destin des nouvelles générations entrées en crise, entraînant la création de nouvelles formes de résistance et de négociation des jeunes face figures d'autorité.","PeriodicalId":42747,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal American and Caribbean Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84439413","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":"Selwyn D. Ryan: A Great Loss (1936-2022)","authors":"A. Maingot","doi":"10.1353/crb.2022.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/crb.2022.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42747,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal American and Caribbean Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82611615","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":"Dépasser les effets de rupture et historiciser la décolonisation des savoirs avec Orlando Fals Borda","authors":"Étienne Roy Grégoire","doi":"10.1080/08263663.2022.2005902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08263663.2022.2005902","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42747,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal American and Caribbean Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47275543","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":"La Revista de Historia de América. Silvio Zavala y la red de estudios americanistas, 1938–1948","authors":"Jorge A. Nállim","doi":"10.1080/08263663.2022.2005893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08263663.2022.2005893","url":null,"abstract":"unable to engage in international travel or migrate out of their country. Chapter 4 is about digital power. Here she carefully notes that, in Haiti, post-earthquake, immediate recovery efforts were dependent on cellphone communication. She suggests a move toward democratizing informational access via patching or ways for people to appropriate existing digital infrastructure (OpenStreetMap, for example) to suit their needs. Chapter 5 is about bordering power. In this chapter, Sheller provides a detailed account of her own crossing of the Haiti– Dominican Republic border. The territoriality of each state is blurred, as the two lakes that separate the island into two are slowly eroding the “border”. This chapter once again reminds us of the “human-made” aspect of the state, territoriality and territory. Finally, Chapter 6 examines sexual power. This is a poignant reminder that tourist destinations are perpetuating forms of exploitation that trace back to slavery and that “violent access to gendered and racialized subaltern bodies continues” (p. 129). Her concluding chapters outline that alternatives to each of the forms of power she presented are possible, ways they could be appropriated from below, and how those alternatives will allow these islands to survive (and thrive) in the Anthropocene. Throughout her book, Sheller discusses these issues with finesse and shows great respect to the local population. She is deeply aware of her positionality in the disaster recovery in Haiti and her privileges, and as such she is also critical of how complicit she is in reproducing the inequalities she describes. This self-awareness shows great maturity and demonstrates how decolonial thinking is possible. Although she draws on other Caribbean experiences, notably that of Puerto Rico, this book would certainly have been even richer with more examples from more other Caribbean Islands. Nevertheless, this book makes an important contribution to decolonial studies and Caribbean studies. I believe this book will become an indispensable read for anyone who wants to work toward a just recovery and a more sustainable future.","PeriodicalId":42747,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal American and Caribbean Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59725381","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":"Island futures: Caribbean survival in the Anthropocene","authors":"Valérie Vézina","doi":"10.1080/08263663.2022.2005889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08263663.2022.2005889","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42747,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal American and Caribbean Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49335750","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":"Academies and schools of art in Latin America","authors":"M. Boone","doi":"10.1080/08263663.2022.2005906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08263663.2022.2005906","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42747,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal American and Caribbean Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48601403","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":"Deadline: populism and the press in Venezuela","authors":"M. Bonner","doi":"10.1080/08263663.2022.2005904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08263663.2022.2005904","url":null,"abstract":"past explicitly sought to avoid the conflicts of national histories perceived as strongly influenced by bellicose nationalism. They are also clear about the engagement of Zavala and the RHA with the Casa de España, the Spanish republican exile in Mexico, and the IPGH, all profoundly rooted in the political and ideological context of those years. The authors, however, do not really go deeper into contentious debates between the RHA and different ideological or political groups and trends. For example, the peculiar reconciliation of Spanish and American history, as well as the avoidance of anti-imperialism, stand in stark contrast to trends like Argentine right-wing Hispanismo, Andean and Mexican Indigenismo and Latin American anti-imperialism. With the exception of the disputes between Zavala and Edmundo O’Gorman’s historicism in Mexican academia, no debate with other historiographical schools is mentioned. While those potential conflicts are not the focus of the book, the sheer scale of the RHA network and the prominence of Zavala and other members of the network surely generated responses that could further illuminate the RHA’s place and relevance in those years. In summary, Pita González and Grillo offer a detailed and nuanced analysis of an understudied yet important publication and network. The book’s sophisticated theoretical and methodological framework and solid empirical base make it a work of reference for those interested in American cultural and intellectual networks during the agitated interwar years and beyond.","PeriodicalId":42747,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal American and Caribbean Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49560231","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":"Conflictos ambientales y vigilancia social: la iniciativa EITI como condicionamiento de la participación ciudadana","authors":"Laura Alvarez Huwiler, Jorge Legoas P.","doi":"10.1080/08263663.2022.1996692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08263663.2022.1996692","url":null,"abstract":"RESUMEN El presente trabajo busca explicar la relación entre la Iniciativa para la Transparencia de las Industrias Extractivas (EITI) implementada en Perú y el crecimiento de los conflictos socioambientales en torno a la mega-minería en los últimos 15 años. Se analiza de qué modo la iniciativa EITI ha sido construida desde una dimensión internacional, y su implementación se ha fundado en iniciativas locales previas. La iniciativa se basa en una interpretación que operan sus impulsores acerca de las demandas planteadas contra la megaminería y propone una nueva estrategia centrada en el “diálogo” y la “transparencia” como modos de institucionalizar y amortiguar el conflicto. En última instancia, se sugiere que la relación conflicto-EITI-participación pone de manifiesto la construcción de una lógica de dominación basada en la transparencia.","PeriodicalId":42747,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal American and Caribbean Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48784842","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}