1 INDIVIDUAL ABSTRACTS/RÉSUMÉS INDIVIDUELS/RESUMENES INDIVIDUALES. GRENADA 2013 2 INDIVDUAL ABSTRACTS SUBMITTED FOR THE 38TH ANNUAL CSA CONFERENCE, GRENADA 3-7 JUNE 2013. All the abstracts included here were submitted and accepted for the conference. Unfortunately some of the paper presentations have since been withdrawn due to cancellations, but we prefer to include them here as a record of the response to the Conference Theme and as a useful document for consultation. However, please note that ―No-shows‖ have been removed. As you will observe, we have not unified the length of the abstracts, or the number of languages in which they are submitted. Many people have responded to our call for the titles of papers and the abstracts to be translated and in this booklet we are including all the various versions we have received. Thank you everyone who took the time to think out their paper in more than one language. Please accept our apologies if any abstracts are missing. I would like to thank Josue Ku Gallegos and Adyani Pérez Aguilar of the Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán for their help in pulling these abstracts from the excel submission forms and formatting the document. LOS RESUMENES INDIVIDUALES RECIBIDOS PARA LA 38 CONFERENCIA ANUAL DE LA CSA, GRENADA 3-7 JUNIO 2013 Todos los resumenes incluidos aqui fueron enviados y aceptados para la Conferencia. Desafortunadamente, algunos de ellos como ponencias fueron retirados en los meses posteriores a la convocatoria debido a cancelaciones, pero decidimos aun incluirlos como un record de la respuesta al tema de la Conferencia y como un documento de consulta de utilidad. Sin embargo, nótese por favor que ―No-Shows‖ fueron retirados de este documento. Como observarán, no hemos editado o unificado los resúmenes. Much gente respondió con entusiasmo a nuestra invitación de enviar sus resumenes y títulos con una traducción y asi mismo aquí incluimos todas las versiones de los resúmenes que hemos recibido. Agradecemos a todos quienes tomaron el tiempo para pensar sobre sus temas y ponencias en más de un idioma. Acepten nuestras más sinceras disculpas si hemos omitido alguno. Quisiera agradecer también a Josue Ku Gallegos y Adyani Pérez Aguilar de la Facultad de Ciencias Antropológicas, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán por su ayudaen bajar los resúmenes de los formatos Excel y por formatear el documento final. LES RESUMES INDIVIDUELS REÇUS POUR LA 38EME CONFERENCE ANNUEL DU CSA, GRENADA 3-7 JUIN 2013 Tous les résumés individuels ont été envoyés et acceptés pour la Conférence. Malheureusement, quelques résumés ont été annulés ou retirés et cela à cause des annulations, mais nous avons décider de toute les inclure afin de marquer le numéro record de participations et proposer un un document consultable et utile. Comme vous pouvez l´observer, nous n´avons pas édité ou unifié les résumés. Beaucoup de participants ont répondu avec enthousiasme à notre invitation d´envoyer ses résumés et titres traduits, et nous avons inclus ces versions. Nous remercions d´ailleurs tous ceux qui ont pris le temps pour traduire leur titre et résumé en plus d´une langue. Par ce biais, nos plus sincères excuses si nous avons omis la vôtre. Je souhaiterais remercier Josue Ku Gallegos y Adyani Pérez Aguilar de la Faculté de Sciences Anthropologiques de l´université autonome du Yucatán pour leur aide afin de paginer le document final. 3 JACQUELINE ADONIS, University of the Virgin Islands. [email protected] A Perspective on Walcott's Vision for Caribbean Development Abstract: Derek Walcott directed the play, Remembrance, based on the Trinidad Revolution of 1970, in December 1977, on the St. Croix Campus of the University of the Virgin Islands, at that time known as the College of the Virgin Islands. Remembrance is both a tribute to teachers and a historical account of various issues present in the infancy of the newly independent Island of Trinidad. This presentation uses the Post-Colonial Perspective to analyze some of the major symbols in the play as related to the development of the Island Nation. The goal is to understand how Walcott uses symbols to convey the struggle between holding on to a Colonial past and embracing the prospects of a new way of life. The exploration of the significance of Language and its role in Cultural Identity, the Flags and their representation of National Authority, and the symbolism portrayed through the Characters lend to a cohesive and cogent analysis. In brief, the quest for identity, the acknowledgment of past mistakes, and the recognition of opportunity are the catalysts for adaptation in Walcott‘s Remembrance. Hence, are these components: the quest for clearly defined indigenous identity, the acknowledgment and correction of mistakes made by and against emerging societies, and, the wisdom to recognize and seize opportunities availed, whether local, regional, or global, integral to the solution for Caribbean Spaces and Institutions: Contesting Paradigms of ―Development‖ in the 21st Century? A.J. ALBERTS, University of Sint Maarten [email protected] or [email protected] Aruba and Sint Maarten: Limits To An Island Development Paradigm Abstract Aruba and Sint Maarten constitute two cases of apparently successful socio-economic development in the Caribbean over the past decades. In both cases, a strong orientation on stay-over and cruiseship tourism products lead to rapid GDP growth relative to other Dutch and Caribbean territories. Circumstances supporting this development are the institutional stability offered by the Dutch Kingdom, combined with a large degree of autonomy in internal matters for both territories. However, it has become apparent that the rapid development of a single pillar tourism economy came at a cost. The insufficient local labor supply is replenished by rapid immigration, leading to challenges of social cohesion. Population growth leads to pressure on public services such as education, health care and infrastructure that are hard to offset by the necessary investments. On both relatively small islands, the growth in tourism industry and population fill the physical space to the limit. Furthermore, rapid GDP growth notwithstanding, labor productivity has not necessarily risen, questioning the quality of the economic development as such. This, in contrast to the perceived increase in wealth, leads to the question who exactly benefits from the chosen development model, and how these benefits are distributed. 4 KAREN ALDRED, University of the West Indies at Mona, [email protected] (Cancelled) Does Birth Order Matter? Abstract: This paper seeks to investigate whether there is a relationship between birth order and academic achievement in a cohort of 11 to 12 year old Jamaican children. A sample of 1,171 respondents was selected from urban areas as a geographical sub-sample of a national birth cohort identified during the Jamaica Perinatal Morbidity and Mortality Survey of 1986. Academic achievement in the children was determined by applying the Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT) which comprises standardized testing in the areas of reading, spelling and arithmetic. Questionnaires were applied to one parent/parental figure of each child in order to describe socioeconomic factors of the study participants. These factors covered the child‘s physical and economic environment, the child‘s family life and academic environment. Separate multiple regression models will be developed for each area of academic achievement. Factors to be controlled include respondent‘s characteristics such as gender and nutrition, family characteristics such as family size and family structure, parental characteristics such as their educational and occupational levels, marital status, mother‘s age at birth of respondent as well as household characteristics such as number of possessions in the home, toilet and water facilities and crowding in the home. SIMONE A. JAMES ALEXANDER, Seton Hall University [email protected] Transgressive and Transnational Subjects: Shani Mootoo‘s and Ramabai Espinet‘s Bodies of In/Difference Abstract: In her phenomenal essay ―Erotic Autonomy as a Politics of Decolonization: Feminism, Tourism, and the State in the Bahamas,‖ critic Jacqui Alexander writes: ―Should woman be perennial daughter raised as lady, always already defined by her relationship to men? Or, should woman and citizenship signify a certain autonomy – what we might regard as erotic autonomy – and sexual agency‖ (22)? Drawing on Alexander‘s ―politics of decolonization,‖ whilst operating within the framework of erotic autonomy, in this paper I demonstrate that the female protagonists, Mona Singh and Viveka Krishnu appropriate the colonial discourse by ―defying and defiling‖ patriarchal and cultural expectations of Indian womanhood, and of female subjectivity and sexuality in general. Further, I argue that Mona and Viveka have refused the nation‘s heterosexual imperative for citizenship, dislodging the ―ideological moorings of nationalism,‖ and also disrupting the neat narrative of heterosexuality and masculinity. Rejecting the sexualization and commodification of female bodies, challenging women‘s construction within the framework of masculine desires, Mona and Viveka refuse to reproduce the nation and state (male) power. 5 SIMON ALEXIS, University of the West Indies, St Augustine. [email protected];[email protected] (Cancelled) The impact of court cases attendance by police officers on the development of the criminal justice