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Development policies and identity politics: class and collectivity in Belize
Author(s) -
Medina Laurie Kroshus
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1997.24.1.148
Subject(s) - contest , ethnic group , politics , collective identity , identity (music) , sociology , class (philosophy) , political mobilization , political economy , political science , work (physics) , national identity , gender studies , anthropology , law , epistemology , aesthetics , mechanical engineering , philosophy , engineering
Recent work on the construction of collective identities has produced rich analyses of ethnic and national collectivities, but the construction of collective class identities has received less attention. In this article I focus on the interplay of economic, political, and symbolic forces in the construction of collective class identities in the citrus industry of Belize, examining the intersection of these forces with racial‐ethnic and national collectivities and their mobilization to contest the direction of economic development in the industry.