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The presence of Spanish and Portuguese Jews in several Caribbean locations, such as Barbados, Curaçao, Suriname and Jamaica, has been studied by numerous scholars. However, the recent finding of hundreds of letters in the UK National Archives conveys a deeper understanding of these communities, settled there in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Besides allowing direct access to correspondence concerning the existing networks, these primary sources provide insights into the everyday life, trade and fears of these Jewish settlers, who were under surveillance in the period of the Anglo-Dutch wars. These letters, written either for personal or professional purposes, also offer relevant data for the study of individual and collective experiences in correlation with historical events. This article is part of the special theme section on Portuguese Jews in Europe and the Caribbean, 17th-18th Centuries, guest-edited by José Alberto Tavim.

This paper aims to understand how heritage is the result of a simultaneous game of memory and oblivion, which carries with it visions of a hierarchical society. For this purpose, the most important heritage sites of Santa Marta, the most ancient city of South America, are analysed. In this city, it’s possible to appreciate the heritage framework that involves the commemoration of two temporalities: Spanish colonialism of XVI century, and republican endocolonialism in the XIX century. In the paper it is analysed how these two historical segments have imposed a sense of identity.

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In the English-speaking Caribbean, an estimated 46% of men and 61% of women are currently overweight or obese, and 8% of children younger than 5 years are also overweight. To combat this worsening epidemic, driven by unhealthy dietary patterns, the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) issued the 2007 Port-of-Spain Declaration, which included mandates on the provision of healthy school meals, promotion of healthy dietary patterns, and reintroduction of physical education in schools. These mandates are aligned with evidence-based approaches used in childhood obesity prevention programs. School-based interventions, including curriculum revisions, are part of a multipronged approach to improve nutrition in children and are designed to complement and reinforce other interventions in schools. However, formal evaluation of the Port-of-Spain Declaration showed that most CARICOM member countries had difficulty implementing the mandates related to schools and diet. The Improving Household Nutrition Security and Public Health in the CARICOM project, in collaboration with regional institutions, the CARICOM Secretariat, and the Caribbean Examinations Council, sought to enhance nutrition education through revision of region-wide primary and secondary school curricula to increase the focus on prevention of noncommunicable diseases. This paper describes the process of revising the Caribbean Examinations Council’s Human and Social Biology syllabus for secondary schools and the CARICOM Health and Family Life Education Regional Curriculum Framework for primary schools, which was achieved through multisectoral collaboration. We used the Framework for Reporting Adaptations and Modifications-Enhanced model to describe the process through which the modifications were made.

The Caribbean islands share a history of plantation economy in which the "1%" not only controlled the natural resources and economies of the region, but also owned the majority of the "99%" who were enslaved. This disparity in wealth approximated a racial divide in the society, as the wealthy minority was predominantly "white" while the dispossessed majority was mainly non-whites. While the coastlands were always of importance in these export-oriented agricultural colonies, beach and backshore lands unsuitable for agriculture were less so, often being utilized for boatyards/fishing depots, cemeteries and "tenantries" or squatter settlements housing the landless. Since World War II, and particularly since the Cuban revolution in 1960, beach-oriented tourism has become the leading economic activity in most Caribbean countries. Competition for coastal resources has generally been resolved in favour of foreign currency, transferring much coastal property to foreign ownership and increasingly shutting off the local population's access to the sea. As the majority of foreign investors and tourists are white, this also has racial connotations. This paper examines the legal and administrative responses to the challenges that this situation presents which have been adopted by the Anglo-Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS), with particular reference to the islands of Jamaica, Barbados, Tobago and some of the member countries of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). Las islas del Caribe comparten una historia de economía basada en plantaciones, en el que el 1% de la población controlaba los recursos naturales y la economía de la región, y al 99% restante, que vivía esclavizado. Esta diferencia en la riqueza traía consigo una división racial en la sociedad, ya que la minoría rica era principalmente "blanca", mientras que la mayoría desposeía era principalmente "no blanca". Mientras que las tierras costeras tenían siempre importancia en estas colonias agrícolas orientadas a la exportación, las playas y terrenos inadecuados para la agricultura lo eran menos, utilizándose muchas veces como astilleros o almacenes de pesca, cementerios o asentamientos ilegales para los sintierra. Desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y en particular desde la revolución cubana de 1960, el turismo de playa se ha convertido en la principal actividad económica en la mayoría de los países del Caribe. La competencia por los recursos costeros se ha resuelto en general a favor del capital extranjero, transfiriendo muchas propiedades costeras a dueños extranjeros y, cada vez más, cerrando a la población local el acceso al mar. Como la mayoría de los inversores extranjeros y turistas son blancos, esto también tiene connotaciones raciales. Este artículo analiza las respuestas legales y administrativas a los desafíos surgidos por esta situación, que se han adoptado por Anglo-Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) (Pequeñas Islas y Estados en Desarrollo Anglo-Caribeños), con especial referencia a las islas de Jamaica, Barbados, Tobago y algunos de los países miembros de la Organización de Estados del Caribe Oriental (OECO).DOWNLOAD THIS PAPER FROM SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2571281

Abstract This paper examines the foundational and formative period of interdisciplinary social thought in the anglophone Caribbean to critically engage with hypothesis of academic dependency and shed further light on how West Indian scholars in the 1950s resisted institutional and epistemic structures of dominance. Manifold contributions outline the colonial and imperial legacy and entanglement of social sciences knowledge production, however often focus on macro-historical and epistemic discussions. To enhance these, I argue, concrete empirical case studies of social knowledge production in the Global South can be productive to elaborate and learn from non-hegemonic traditions of theorising and researching. Conducting a reconstruction of the institutional context of knowledge production and its interaction with each other, it will be shown that West Indian social scientists represent an inspiring example of how social theorising was practiced against the grain of centre-periphery relations.

Objective: To underline that beyond the territories under Portuguese rule, evidence of the use of protective amulets can also be found in places under Hispanic control and the Caribbean. This study aims to enrich historiography on the subject and dialogue with it regarding source analysis and a rereading based on the descriptions of central-western Africa from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Methodology: It interrogates sources widely used for the study of African matrix cultures in America from a different perspective and reviews non-written sources that allow visualizing written ones in their context. Originality: This paper contributes to the understanding of how sources can be reread to research African Diaspora cultures in the light of their connected history, tracing the use of these amulets in specific socio-cultural contexts. Conclusions: By considering and interrogating diverse sources on the conversion of Africans and the African diaspora in the Americas, these stories transcend the immutable benevolence of Catholicism and Eurocentrism and question the myopia of the Jesuits and inquisitors in New Spain and New Granada when observing African customs.

Objectiu: aquest article presenta categories que mostren tendències investigadores de la ciència de la informació i la biblioteconomia en l'entorn d'Iberoamèrica i el Carib. Les categories han estat producte d'una recerca l'objectiu de la qual es relaciona amb l'anàlisi d'aquests aspectes predictius i prospectius de la disciplina, així com la configuració de l'horitzó d'aquest camp des d'una perspectiva científica. -- Metodologia: l'enfocament que assumeix el projecte és de caràcter mixt, ja que integra l'anàlisi quantitativa i qualitativa, tenint en compte que s'utilitzen tècniques bibliomètriques, i procediments que integren l'ús de variables de mesura i obtenció d'indicadors de producció científica. De la mateixa manera, s'examinen i descriuen els articles seleccionats respecte del seu contingut teoricoepistemològic, recuperats del Web of Science, informació d'Iberoamèrica i del Carib, entre els anys 2009 i 2013, corresponents als títols de revistes que integren la categoria temàtica Objectives: Drawing on a predictive and prospective study which describes the general outline of library and information science from a scientific perspective, this paper identifies six categories of LIS research in Ibero-America and the Caribbean. -- Methodology: The paper reports on a mixed-methods study that integrated quantitative and qualitative analysis by bringing together bibliometric techniques and procedures combining the measurement of variables and the retrieval of scientific production indicators. The authors examined the theoretical and epistemological content of a series of articles which were retrieved using the Web of Science platform and which offered information on LIS research trends in Ibero-America and the Caribbean during the period 2009–2013. The articles came from the journals in the category

Objetivo: este artículo presenta categorías que evidencian tendencias investigativas de la ciencia de la información y la bibliotecología en el entorno de Iberoamérica y el Caribe. Estas han sido producto de una investigación cuyo objetivo se relaciona con el análisis de estos aspectos predictivos y prospectivos de la disciplina, así como la configuración del horizonte de este campo desde una perspectiva científica. -- Metodología: el enfoque que asume el proyecto es de carácter mixto, pues integra el análisis cuantitativo y cualitativo, teniendo en cuenta que se utilizan técnicas bibliométricas, y procedimientos que integran el uso de variables de medición y obtención de indicadores de producción científica. De igual modo se examinan y describen los artículos seleccionados respecto de su contenido teórico-epistemológico, recuperados de la Web of Science, información de Iberoamérica y el Caribe, entre los años 2009 y 2013, correspondientes a los títulos de revistas que integran la categoría temática Objectives: Drawing on a predictive and prospective study which describes the general outline of library and information science from a scientific perspective, this paper identifies six categories of LIS research in Ibero-America and the Caribbean. -- Methodology: The paper reports on a mixed-methods study that integrated quantitative and qualitative analysis by bringing together bibliometric techniques and procedures combining the measurement of variables and the retrieval of scientific production indicators. The authors examined the theoretical and epistemological content of a series of articles which were retrieved using the Web of Science platform and which offered information on LIS research trends in Ibero-America and the Caribbean during the period 2009–2013. The articles came from the journals in the category

This paper offers a reflexive approach on research conducted in (post)colonial Caribbean cultural formation. It starts from the issue raised both by the narratology paradigm in anthropology and by post- or decolonial critique, which have questioned the position of the author with regards to the text, as well as the asymmetry found in the relationship between the researcher and her/his interlocutors. The focus is placed on the “post-fieldwork” writing phase. It is argued that within the academic sphere, the decolonization of knowledge exists through two interdependent orders. One, rather internal to the discourse produced in this sphere, permits the deconstruction of colonial categories to a certain extent, provided that the normative discursivity of the postcolonial moment is carried out. The other, rather external to the discourse, deals with the context of enunciation of the discourse. It ensures its acceptability, as well as its proper circulation and reception within the “scientific community”. In the latter case, decolonization may seem illusory insofar as knowledge projects do not effectively reach the colonial aspect of knowledge production bodies. The analysis is mainly based on research conducted by the author. It begins with a description of the socio-epistemic frame of this research. Then, it draws on the example of a study on the memory of slavery in Martinique. Finally, it inevitably leads to the review of these two “orders of discourse” with regards to the decolonization of knowledge, in order to discuss the “decolonizing” illusion and the disenchantment that they reverberate when the enunciative space does not seem to be much different from the one established by the coloniality/modernity of knowledge.

The objective of this paper is twofold. Firstly, we show how, and to what extent, Latin American and Caribbean countries applied the precepts of the second Washington consensus, i.e. a consensus which stresses the capital account liberalization. Secondly, we highlight the effects of this set of reforms on their economies. Thus, we show that countries having most scrupulously followed these recommendations did not experience better economic results. On the contrary, their situation as regards inequality and debt is getting worse than others.

É inegável que a discussão sobre saúde, meio ambiente e desenvolvimento sustentável tem progredido muito em décadas recentes. Contudo, ganhos globais não têm sido distribuídos de maneira uniforme, deixando grandes grupos populacionais excluídos, com conseqüências negativas à saúde. Também estamos começando a reconhecer problemas globais emergentes que causam impactos locais significativos, principalmente em populações pobres, tanto em áreas rurais como urbanas. A saúde ambiental está numa encruzilhada, em que novos modelos e parcerias são necessários. Este artigo explora essas questões especificamente em relação aos países latino-americanos e caribenhos.There has been undeniable progress in addressing health, environment and sustainable development in recent decades. Yet, global gains have not been distributed equally, leaving major populations groups excluded, with negative consequences to health. We are also beginning to recognize emerging global problems with significant local impacts, mostly in impoverished populations, both in rural and urban settings. Environmental health is at the crossroads, where new models and partnerships are required. This paper explores these issues with specific reference to the Latin American and Caribbean countries.

The rise of Caribbean peasantries after slavery happened at different times in different colonies, marked everywhere by the planters’ struggle to cut off the freed people from any productive forces. The paper discusses several colonies to document how in each case the struggle between planters and peasants ensued, and how planters retained the political power that would have decisively changed the outcome.