The new Caribbean complexity

Mobility systems, tourism and spatial rescaling

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20153783
AutoresMimi Sheller (0000-0001-9097-9563, Swarthmore College, autor correspondente)
Ano2009
Volume30
Fascículo2
Páginas189-203
Data de publicação2009-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSingapore Journal of Tropical Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0129-7619 • E-ISSN: 1467-9493
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9493.2009.00365.x
OpenAlexW2078776370
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas43
Referências citadas39

The Caribbean region is being respatialized, rescaled and reterritorialized in the face of contemporary processes of neoliberal development, shifting mobilities and spatial restructuring. Drawing on the field of mobilities research, this paper argues that new transregional approaches to spatial dynamics are needed to describe the complex, polymorphic, and multiscalar geographies in the neoliberalizing Caribbean. It first analyzes how new spatializations of Caribbean mobilities are part of larger transnational processes of urban restructuring. It then examines how neoliberalizing policies have promoted the ‘opening’ of once publicly owned infrastructures such as ports, airports, and telecommunications, contributing to a rescaling of Caribbean territoriality. Finally it considers how tourism mobilities associated with the cruise ship industry and private luxury property developments facilitate interlocality competition and outside access to the region while circumscribing local access and mobility rights. The paper proposes a postcolonializing island studies that recognizes the complexity of contemporary Caribbean rescaling and the subtle ways in which modernized built environments and infrastructures of mobility and connectivity contribute to the weakening of island‐state sovereignty, territorial integrity and democratic citizenship

Citizenship · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Geography · Mobilities · Nexus (standard) · Political science · Politics · Restructuring · Sociology · Sovereignty · Tourism · Cruise Tourism Development and Management · Maritime Ports and Logistics · Travel Writing and Literature