The Caribbean is facing the same crisis of late modernity as other nation-states
Evidence
And I get the sense that people are much more questioning, and they have a sense of coming to the end of a range of ideologies, whatever they were, which have unraveled to the point where they can’t stitch them together again. … I think you have to know that literature in more depth than I do. So what I know are things from afar. And things from afar suggest that the Caribbean is, with all its specificities, emerging into the full light of the crisis of late modernity. You know it is in exactly the same relation as all nation-states are—at different levels of development, different histories—to the bewildering onslaught of globalization, which is a partner to a certain kind of neoliberalism. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1031
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the collapse of Bandung/socialist projects and the rise of neoliberalism Hall narrates — the conjuncture framing he uses across his later work, which downstream Islamophobia readings (postcolonial critique) inherit.
- QUESTION: Hall declines to pinpoint an emerging alternative current — worth chasing how later Caribbean/Caribbean-diaspora theory (e.g. postcolonial globalization work) did name those openings.