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Connected worlds: the Caribbean, origin of modern world

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Exploring Europe's, Africa's and the Caribbean's role in shaping the Atlantic World

The Caribbean has been characterised as a peculiar geopolitical region where economic, political, social, cultural and human contacts flow from Europe and Africa, from one island to another, and on to the American continent. These nexuses generated new ways of thinking and living, as well as identities. Europe played an important role in shaping this new world, as did the enslaved Africans that contributed to the cultural and ethnic formation of the Caribbean region and to global economic growth. The EU-funded ConnecCaribbean project aims to add to the academic dialogue between Europe and the Caribbean, focusing on new and different views and interpretations of the Atlantic World from those of the currently predominant Anglo-academics.

Objective

"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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Call for proposal

H2020-MSCA-RISE-2018

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Funding Scheme

MSCA-RISE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)

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AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS
Net EU contribution
€ 625 600,00
Address
CALLE SERRANO 117
28006 Madrid
Spain

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Comunidad de Madrid Comunidad de Madrid Madrid
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Total cost
€ 662 400,00

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