Anton L Allahar
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 125022 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Anton L Allahar |
| NOMBRES | Anton L |
| APELLIDO | Allahar |
| FIRMA | ALLAHAR A L |
| AFILIACIONES | Western University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1980 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The Sociology of Development and the Underdevelopment of Sociology
In the present essay my aim is first to review and extend Frank’s thinking on ‘the sociology of development,’ and second, I will attempt to apply his insights to some of the new or present-day directions in sociological theory and research with a view to showing how they might be seen as contributing to ‘the underdevelopment of sociology.’ Beginning with the vision of the founding fathers of sociology broadly understood, I will argue that that vi…
Multiculturalism as a negotiated citizenship
This study examines the lived experiences of second-generation Black Jamaicans and investigates how they interpret Canadian multiculturalism while navigating racism in their everyday lives. There is no dearth of research on multiculturalism in Canada. However, this article makes a fresh contribution to debates on multiculturalism by exploring how multiculturalism is understood and articulated as a claim-making process by a racialized group under …
A History of Creole Trinidad, 1956–2010 , by Raymond Ramcharitar
A History of Creole Trinidad takes us through the pages of Trinidad's political history from 1956 to 2010.These 54 years span a period beginning with the political ascendancy of Eric Williams and ending when the country seemingly rid itself of his legacy.Two political developments marked the end of the Williams era in 2010: the People's National Movement (pnm) dumped its leader and replaced him with one who was not of the Williams era, and the Un…
John Anthony La Rose
The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present
Because of the trauma of the Grenada Revolution, beginning with the relatively bloodless coup of March 13, 1979, punctured by the tragic and bloody executions of October 19, 1983, and ending with t
Gordon K. Lewis
Introductiongordon k. lewis was a man of sound learning, steeped in the classics and totally interdisciplinary in his approach to knowledge. He was also the complete Caribbean scholar and intellectual, passionate and committed to the economic and political viability of the entire region. He was both a European and a Welshman, and in his own time and style he was also a revolutionary. He married a black woman from 'the islands' (Trinidad) long bef…
Situating Oliver Cromwell Cox (1901-1974)
The volume does not attempt to establish a hagiography of Oliver Cox. There are certain aspects of his work that we find very impressive and still relevant today, but there are contradictions here
"Marxist or not? Oliver Cromwell Cox on capitalism and class versus "race
In Marx’s overall theory of social change he reasoned that the social segment most negatively affected by capitalism was the working class. He felt that it was in the interest of the working class to abolish the system that alienated, exploited, and oppressed them; to overthrow the class that benefitted from their alienation, exploitation, and oppression. Marx’s was thus a class theory of change and this is clearly announced in the opening line o…
Looking Back and Moving Forward - Reflections on Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Professor Bridget Brereton (BB) has kindly consented to the following interview conducted by Linden Lewis (LL) and Anton Allahar (AA). Our questions cover both contemporary and historical issues an
Response to James Côté and Anton Allahar and Reply
"Response to "Anxious Academics
Joseph Galbo has written a poor review--not by panning Ivory Tower Blues, but by misrepresenting its central thesis: that grade and inflation have conditioned a crisis wherein students and professors are disengaged in ways that threaten the quality of liberal-arts education. Galbo has done a disservice to the readers of this journal for this mischief as well as for misframing other arguments. We cannot possibly address all of his inaccuracies in …
Etnonacionalizmo politika
The present paper aims to propose a schema for analysing the contemporary politics of national and ethnic identity in post-colonial and post-socialist states. To this end it will seek: (a) to provide a comprehensive operational definition of nationalism, (b) to qualify that definition by the addition of the adjective 'ethnic,' (c) to assess the extent to which the concept 'ethnic nationalism' can help us to understand some of the politics of ethn…
Identity and Erasure
Caribbean Autobiography: cultural identity and self-representation, by Sandra Pouchet Paquet. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. – Decolonising the Caribbean: Dutch policies in a comparative perspective, by Gert Oostindie and Inge Klinkers. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2003. – Ah Come Back Home: Perspectives on the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival, edited by Ian I. Smart, and Kimani S. K. Nehusi. Washington: Original Worl…
Racial Politics and Cultural Identity in Trinidad's Carnival
The tendency to essentialization is common in so-called diaspora studies and their explicit acceptance of primordially based identity politics. In this critique of the volume edited by Smart and Nehusi (2000), we focus on the authors' references to Africa and Africans, and on their uncritical use of such notions as community, race, and ethnicity. The authors speak ideologically to what supposedly binds the community together; for example, common …
Framing of Political Culture in the English-Speaking Caribbean
In this essay it is my contention that, as anachronistic as a revived political interest in Marxism and socialism in the Caribbean may appear today, it is nevertheless likely to stem form the unintended consequences of United States’ aggressive leadership of the “Free World,” which includes the Caribbean. The backdrop to this study of the political culture of the Caribbean is the region’s class-based and racialized history, whose roots are firmly…
"Race" and Class in the Making of Caribbean Political Culture
The following essay seeks to assess the nature of Caribbean political culture in two broad areas: sport (West Indies test cricket) and popular culture (steelband & calypso in Trinidad). In each of these I will attempt to uncover the class forces at play and the ways in which ethnicity and "race" have been invoked by opportunistic political entrepreneurs to serve specific economic and political ends. My contention is that as dependent, capitalist,…
The Politics of Ethnic Identity Construction
Forming Canada 's Ethnoracial Identity
Although most Canadians agree that theirs is not a perfect society, they see it as capable of perfection and take comfort in knowing that it is certainly better than most. The conservative implications of such a position are quite clear, and this is the basis on which we describe Canada as a nation in denial. It is a denial based on the myth of classlessness and general refusal to acknowledge the existence of systemic or structured inequalities a…
Primordialism and ethnic political mobilisation in modern society
This article will focus on class and ethnicity as factors influencing political mobilisation in modern, liberal‐democratic societies. My aim is to treat political mobilisation as a dependent variable and to compare the conditions under which (a) class consciousness and affiliation and (b) ethnic consciousness and affiliation are able to predict such mobilisation. The concept of primordialism, which holds that group attachment and identity, especi…
Generation on Hold
Generation on Hold
When Black First Became Worth Less
Sociology and the Periphery
Merchants, Planters, and Merchants-Become-Planters
On a souvent opposé les planteurs aux marchands, les premiers étant subordonnés aux seconds, sans s'arrêter aux conditions qui ont permis à ceux-ci de se transformer, entre 1830 et 1860, en entrepreneurs innovateurs. Cet article analyse l'évolution des rapports entre les deux classes ainsi que le contexte dans lequel émergea une nouvelle classe dominante, porteuse de progrès. Vers 1830, les planteurs cubains faisaient face à des défis nouveaux, l…
The Cuban Sugar Planters (1790-1820) “The Most Solid and Brilliant Bourgeois Class in All of Latin America”
One of the dominant themes stressed in the literature on development and underdevelopment in Latin America, is that the landowners in this region have historically played a negative role. They are portrayed as having been politically reactionary, economically passive, lacking in entrepreneurial drive, and generally unconcerned with promoting the development of the productive forces in their respective countries. Further, their attitudes have been…
Identity and Erasure
Caribbean Autobiography: cultural identity and self-representation, by Sandra Pouchet Paquet. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. – Decolonising the Caribbean: Dutch policies in a comparative perspective, by Gert Oostindie and Inge Klinkers. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2003. – Ah Come Back Home: Perspectives on the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival, edited by Ian I. Smart, and Kimani S. K. Nehusi. Washington: Original Worl…
When Black First Became Worth Less
Forming Canada 's Ethnoracial Identity
Although most Canadians agree that theirs is not a perfect society, they see it as capable of perfection and take comfort in knowing that it is certainly better than most. The conservative implications of such a position are quite clear, and this is the basis on which we describe Canada as a nation in denial. It is a denial based on the myth of classlessness and general refusal to acknowledge the existence of systemic or structured inequalities a…
The Politics of Ethnic Identity Construction
"Race" and Class in the Making of Caribbean Political Culture
The following essay seeks to assess the nature of Caribbean political culture in two broad areas: sport (West Indies test cricket) and popular culture (steelband & calypso in Trinidad). In each of these I will attempt to uncover the class forces at play and the ways in which ethnicity and "race" have been invoked by opportunistic political entrepreneurs to serve specific economic and political ends. My contention is that as dependent, capitalist,…
Primordialism and ethnic political mobilisation in modern society
This article will focus on class and ethnicity as factors influencing political mobilisation in modern, liberal‐democratic societies. My aim is to treat political mobilisation as a dependent variable and to compare the conditions under which (a) class consciousness and affiliation and (b) ethnic consciousness and affiliation are able to predict such mobilisation. The concept of primordialism, which holds that group attachment and identity, especi…
The micro-organisation of backwardness in Central Sardinia
It is argued here that unlike theories which view underdevelopment from the 'world system' perspective, Rosa Luxemburg's critical elaboration of the concept of primitive accumulation is a key contribution to the understanding of dependency and backwardness at the local level. Luxemburg outlines three phases in the destruction of pre-capitalist formations by capitalism: the separation of the producer from the traditional bonds and hierarchies; int…
"Marxist or not? Oliver Cromwell Cox on capitalism and class versus "race
In Marx’s overall theory of social change he reasoned that the social segment most negatively affected by capitalism was the working class. He felt that it was in the interest of the working class to abolish the system that alienated, exploited, and oppressed them; to overthrow the class that benefitted from their alienation, exploitation, and oppression. Marx’s was thus a class theory of change and this is clearly announced in the opening line o…
Racial Politics and Cultural Identity in Trinidad's Carnival
The tendency to essentialization is common in so-called diaspora studies and their explicit acceptance of primordially based identity politics. In this critique of the volume edited by Smart and Nehusi (2000), we focus on the authors' references to Africa and Africans, and on their uncritical use of such notions as community, race, and ethnicity. The authors speak ideologically to what supposedly binds the community together; for example, common …
Framing of Political Culture in the English-Speaking Caribbean
In this essay it is my contention that, as anachronistic as a revived political interest in Marxism and socialism in the Caribbean may appear today, it is nevertheless likely to stem form the unintended consequences of United States’ aggressive leadership of the “Free World,” which includes the Caribbean. The backdrop to this study of the political culture of the Caribbean is the region’s class-based and racialized history, whose roots are firmly…
The micro-organisation of backwardness in Central Sardinia
It is argued here that unlike theories which view underdevelopment from the 'world system' perspective, Rosa Luxemburg's critical elaboration of the concept of primitive accumulation is a key contribution to the understanding of dependency and backwardness at the local level. Luxemburg outlines three phases in the destruction of pre-capitalist formations by capitalism: the separation of the producer from the traditional bonds and hierarchies; int…
The Cuban Sugar Planters (1790-1820) “The Most Solid and Brilliant Bourgeois Class in All of Latin America”
One of the dominant themes stressed in the literature on development and underdevelopment in Latin America, is that the landowners in this region have historically played a negative role. They are portrayed as having been politically reactionary, economically passive, lacking in entrepreneurial drive, and generally unconcerned with promoting the development of the productive forces in their respective countries. Further, their attitudes have been…
Merchants, Planters, and Merchants-Become-Planters
On a souvent opposé les planteurs aux marchands, les premiers étant subordonnés aux seconds, sans s'arrêter aux conditions qui ont permis à ceux-ci de se transformer, entre 1830 et 1860, en entrepreneurs innovateurs. Cet article analyse l'évolution des rapports entre les deux classes ainsi que le contexte dans lequel émergea une nouvelle classe dominante, porteuse de progrès. Vers 1830, les planteurs cubains faisaient face à des défis nouveaux, l…
Sociology and the Periphery
When Black First Became Worth Less
Generation on Hold
Primordialism and ethnic political mobilisation in modern society
This article will focus on class and ethnicity as factors influencing political mobilisation in modern, liberal‐democratic societies. My aim is to treat political mobilisation as a dependent variable and to compare the conditions under which (a) class consciousness and affiliation and (b) ethnic consciousness and affiliation are able to predict such mobilisation. The concept of primordialism, which holds that group attachment and identity, especi…
Generation on Hold
Framing of Political Culture in the English-Speaking Caribbean
In this essay it is my contention that, as anachronistic as a revived political interest in Marxism and socialism in the Caribbean may appear today, it is nevertheless likely to stem form the unintended consequences of United States’ aggressive leadership of the “Free World,” which includes the Caribbean. The backdrop to this study of the political culture of the Caribbean is the region’s class-based and racialized history, whose roots are firmly…
"Race" and Class in the Making of Caribbean Political Culture
The following essay seeks to assess the nature of Caribbean political culture in two broad areas: sport (West Indies test cricket) and popular culture (steelband & calypso in Trinidad). In each of these I will attempt to uncover the class forces at play and the ways in which ethnicity and "race" have been invoked by opportunistic political entrepreneurs to serve specific economic and political ends. My contention is that as dependent, capitalist,…
The Politics of Ethnic Identity Construction
Forming Canada 's Ethnoracial Identity
Although most Canadians agree that theirs is not a perfect society, they see it as capable of perfection and take comfort in knowing that it is certainly better than most. The conservative implications of such a position are quite clear, and this is the basis on which we describe Canada as a nation in denial. It is a denial based on the myth of classlessness and general refusal to acknowledge the existence of systemic or structured inequalities a…
Racial Politics and Cultural Identity in Trinidad's Carnival
The tendency to essentialization is common in so-called diaspora studies and their explicit acceptance of primordially based identity politics. In this critique of the volume edited by Smart and Nehusi (2000), we focus on the authors' references to Africa and Africans, and on their uncritical use of such notions as community, race, and ethnicity. The authors speak ideologically to what supposedly binds the community together; for example, common …
Identity and Erasure
Caribbean Autobiography: cultural identity and self-representation, by Sandra Pouchet Paquet. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2002. – Decolonising the Caribbean: Dutch policies in a comparative perspective, by Gert Oostindie and Inge Klinkers. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2003. – Ah Come Back Home: Perspectives on the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival, edited by Ian I. Smart, and Kimani S. K. Nehusi. Washington: Original Worl…
Response to James Côté and Anton Allahar and Reply
"Response to "Anxious Academics
Joseph Galbo has written a poor review--not by panning Ivory Tower Blues, but by misrepresenting its central thesis: that grade and inflation have conditioned a crisis wherein students and professors are disengaged in ways that threaten the quality of liberal-arts education. Galbo has done a disservice to the readers of this journal for this mischief as well as for misframing other arguments. We cannot possibly address all of his inaccuracies in …
Etnonacionalizmo politika
The present paper aims to propose a schema for analysing the contemporary politics of national and ethnic identity in post-colonial and post-socialist states. To this end it will seek: (a) to provide a comprehensive operational definition of nationalism, (b) to qualify that definition by the addition of the adjective 'ethnic,' (c) to assess the extent to which the concept 'ethnic nationalism' can help us to understand some of the politics of ethn…
Gordon K. Lewis
Introductiongordon k. lewis was a man of sound learning, steeped in the classics and totally interdisciplinary in his approach to knowledge. He was also the complete Caribbean scholar and intellectual, passionate and committed to the economic and political viability of the entire region. He was both a European and a Welshman, and in his own time and style he was also a revolutionary. He married a black woman from 'the islands' (Trinidad) long bef…
Situating Oliver Cromwell Cox (1901-1974)
The volume does not attempt to establish a hagiography of Oliver Cox. There are certain aspects of his work that we find very impressive and still relevant today, but there are contradictions here
"Marxist or not? Oliver Cromwell Cox on capitalism and class versus "race
In Marx’s overall theory of social change he reasoned that the social segment most negatively affected by capitalism was the working class. He felt that it was in the interest of the working class to abolish the system that alienated, exploited, and oppressed them; to overthrow the class that benefitted from their alienation, exploitation, and oppression. Marx’s was thus a class theory of change and this is clearly announced in the opening line o…
Looking Back and Moving Forward - Reflections on Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Professor Bridget Brereton (BB) has kindly consented to the following interview conducted by Linden Lewis (LL) and Anton Allahar (AA). Our questions cover both contemporary and historical issues an
The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present
Because of the trauma of the Grenada Revolution, beginning with the relatively bloodless coup of March 13, 1979, punctured by the tragic and bloody executions of October 19, 1983, and ending with t
John Anthony La Rose
A History of Creole Trinidad, 1956–2010 , by Raymond Ramcharitar
A History of Creole Trinidad takes us through the pages of Trinidad's political history from 1956 to 2010.These 54 years span a period beginning with the political ascendancy of Eric Williams and ending when the country seemingly rid itself of his legacy.Two political developments marked the end of the Williams era in 2010: the People's National Movement (pnm) dumped its leader and replaced him with one who was not of the Williams era, and the Un…
The Sociology of Development and the Underdevelopment of Sociology
In the present essay my aim is first to review and extend Frank’s thinking on ‘the sociology of development,’ and second, I will attempt to apply his insights to some of the new or present-day directions in sociological theory and research with a view to showing how they might be seen as contributing to ‘the underdevelopment of sociology.’ Beginning with the vision of the founding fathers of sociology broadly understood, I will argue that that vi…
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