http://idea.library.drexel.edu/handle/1860/3507 Search the Channel search http://idea.library.drexel.edu/simple-search http://idea.library.drexel.edu/handle/1860/3559 Title: Review of David B. Gaspar and David P. Geggus (eds) A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean <br/> <br/>Authors: Sheller, Mimi http://idea.library.drexel.edu/handle/1860/3558 Title: Review of P. Hulme, Remnants of Conquest, <br/> <br/>Authors: Sheller, Mimi http://idea.library.drexel.edu/handle/1860/3557 Title: Review of J. Goodwin, J. Jasper and F. Polletta, Passionate Politics: Emotions and Social Movements <br/> <br/>Authors: Sheller, Mimi http://idea.library.drexel.edu/handle/1860/3556 Title: Review of Matthew J. Smith, Red and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934-1957 <br/> <br/>Authors: Sheller, Mimi http://idea.library.drexel.edu/handle/1860/3554 Title: Publics in History <br/> <br/>Authors: Sheller, Mimi; Emirbayer, Mustafa http://idea.library.drexel.edu/handle/1860/3553 Title: Mobile Transformations of “Public” and “Private” Life <br/> <br/>Authors: Sheller, Mimi; Urry, John http://idea.library.drexel.edu/handle/1860/3552 Title: Mobilities, Immobilities and Moorings’, Editorial Introduction to Mobilities, <br/> <br/>Authors: Sheller, Mimi; Urry, John; Hannam, Kevin http://idea.library.drexel.edu/handle/1860/3551 Title: The New Caribbean Complexity: mobility systems, tourism and the re-scaling of development <br/> <br/>Authors: Sheller, Mimi <br/> <br/>Abstract: 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 trans-regional 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 inter-locality 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. http://idea.library.drexel.edu/handle/1860/3550 Title: The Army of Sufferers: Peasant Democracy in the Early Republic of Haiti’ <br/> <br/>Authors: Sheller, Mimi <br/> <br/>Abstract: Focuses on Haitian debates concerning popular political participation in the context of the Liberal Revolution of 1843 and the Piquet Rebellion of 1844. The liberal challenge to the regime of President Boyer gave room to a peasant movement, the 'Army of Sufferers' or the Piquets, calling for black civil and political rights. Author traces 3 phases of the revolutionary situation of 1843-44 to show how political actors within Haiti debated various institutional and constitutional arrangements. http://idea.library.drexel.edu/handle/1860/3549 Title: Oraliteracy and Textual Opacity: Resisting Metropolitan Consumption of Caribbean Creole <br/> <br/>Authors: Sheller, Mimi <br/> <br/>Abstract: The incorporation of 'creole' vemacular languages into texts written in 'standard' languages is an especially fraught crossroads of intercultural communication. This article considers the difference between a kind of literary tourism in which non- Caribbean readers 'taste' the flavour of creole language within Caribbean literature versus an 'oraliteracy' that would recognise the full autonomy and complexity of Creole languages. Rather than reading textual linguistic hybridity as an unproblematic form of intercultural communication, it is suggested that metropolitan consumption of literary representations of Creole vernaculars can serve to naturalize cultural boundaries and reinforce racist stereotypes - especially in postcolonial situations.