Description du projet
Explorer le rôle de l’Europe, de l’Afrique et des Caraïbes dans le façonnement du monde atlantique
Les Caraïbes sont considérées comme une région géopolitique particulière où les contacts économiques, politiques, sociaux, culturels et humains circulent entre l’Europe et l’Afrique, d’une île à l’autre, puis vers le continent américain. Ces contacts ont généré de nouvelles façons de penser et de vivre, ainsi que des caractéristiques identitaires. L’Europe a joué un rôle important dans le façonnement de ce nouveau monde, tout comme les Africains réduits en esclavage qui ont contribué à la formation culturelle et ethnique de la région des Caraïbes et à la croissance économique mondiale. Le projet ConnecCaribbean, financé par l’UE, a pour objectif d’enrichir le dialogue académique entre l’Europe et les Caraïbes, en mettant l’accent sur des points de vue et des interprétations du monde atlantique nouveaux et différents de ceux des universitaires anglo-saxons qui prédominent actuellement.
Objectif
"The Caribbean is defined as a vertebrate, geopolitical space where economic, political, social, cultural and human contacts flow from one island to another and on to the American continent. Inter-colonialism made this space a scene for generating new ways of thinking and living, as well as new identities.
All spaces of the economic world are subject to big changes, mostly at the time they are included into it. In the Caribbean’s case, it is a space with very different internal rhythms, not only of very different speeds but also of very different characters. However, from very early on, interactions across the region can be seen which need to be known better. These gave them links not only between the Antillean archipelago islands which were governed by different European countries, but also between the Islands and the continental coasts, from the Guyanas to Yucatan and, through Panama’s isthmus and the Atrato River basin, until the Pacific coasts. It was an area that was difficult to be controlled by the state, especially when several European States were competing for that control and there were lands, or seas, ""owned by no one"", where activities, such as smuggling, were fruitful. While in one sense, the Caribbean was far from the political power centres of the motherlands, it was, however, the engine of the new economic power that European capitalism unleashed overseas; primarily in the Atlantic area. Slave work, land provision and capital were the factors that made it possible to generate a modern world in which Europe played a key role. This proposal is from the perspective of academic dialogue between Europe and Caribbean, focusing on new and different views and interpretations from those of the currently predominant Anglo academics.
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