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Consuming the Caribbean
- From Arawaks to Zombies
Engelsk Paperback
Consuming the Caribbean
- From Arawaks to Zombies
Engelsk Paperback

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From sugar to indentured labourers, tobacco to reggae music, Europe and North America have been relentlessly consuming the Caribbean and its assets for the past five hundred years. In this fascinating book, Mimi Sheller explores this troublesome history, investigating the complex mobilities of producers and consumers, of material and cultural commodities, including:

  • foodstuffs and stimulants - sugar, fruit, coffee and rum
  • human bodies - slaves, indentured labourers and service workers
  • cultural and knowledge products - texts, music, scientific collections and ethnology
  • entire ''natures'' and landscapes consumed by tourists as tropical paradise.

Consuming the Caribbean demonstrates how colonial exploitation of the Caribbean led directly to contemporary forms of consumption of the region and its products. It calls into question innocent indulgence in the pleasures of thoughtless consumption and calls for a global ethics of consumer responsibility.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
264
ISBN-13:
9780415257602
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0415257603
Udg. Dato:
27 feb 2003
Længde:
14mm
Bredde:
158mm
Højde:
233mm
Forlag:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oplagsdato:
27 feb 2003
Forfatter(e):
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