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Postcolonial Development, (Non)Sovereignty and Affect: Living On in the Wake of Caribbean Political Independence
Author(s) -
Pugh Jonathan
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
antipode
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.177
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1467-8330
pISSN - 0066-4812
DOI - 10.1111/anti.12305
Subject(s) - sovereignty , independence (probability theory) , affect (linguistics) , politics , everyday life , ethnography , sociology , government (linguistics) , political economy , political science , gender studies , anthropology , law , philosophy , communication , statistics , mathematics , linguistics
This paper sets out a new research agenda for work on postcolonial development, sovereignty and affect. It examines how ideals of postcolonial independence play out through the more heterogeneous affective atmospheres that disrupt neat paradigms of sovereign control and non‐sovereignty in everyday life. The example employed is everyday life in a Caribbean government office, but the paper develops a wider set of new conceptual tools and ethnographic approaches so as to facilitate research in postcolonial studies and affect more generally.