Surinaams Onbehagen
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Surinaams onbehagen
Surinaams Onbehagen beschrijft de sociale en politieke geschiedenis van Suriname in onderlinge samenhang over de periode 1865-2015. Met een bevolking van ruim een half miljoen en een diversiteit aan bevolkingsgroepen, talen en godsdiensten is Suriname een van de meest gesegmenteerde samenlevingen in het Caraïbisch gebied. Dit heeft belangrijke consequenties voor de politieke, economische en culturele verhoudingen. Onbehagen – sluimerende onvrede onder (een deel van) de bevolking die al niet resulteert in acties of verzet – is een constante onderstroom in de Surinaamse geschiedenis. Het vindt zijn oorsprong in een waaier aan economische, sociale, culturele en politieke processen. Dit boek zoomt in op het onbehagen in de koloniale periode (1865-1945), de postkoloniale periode (1945-1975) en de periode na de onafhankelijkheid (1975-2015), waarbij de focus ligt op de maatschappelijke processen, de achterliggende idealen en de al dan niet bereikte veranderingen. Het laat zien hoe Suriname voortdurend laveerde tussen zorg en hoop.
The Girmitiya Peasants in Suriname
This book examines the Indo-Surinamese Girmitiya peasants and their contributions to developing the ethnic community within their newly adopted home. It demonstrates the transformation of the Girmitiyas from agriculturalists in British India to plantation labourers to peasants and finally to urban dwellers. The author argues that it was the Girmitiya peasants who had made greater contributions to developing the ethnic community over the labourers of whom about one-third returned to British India. The work covers the history of how the peasants institutionalised their practice, changed the physical landscape and integrated economically and politically as an ethnic group in their newly adopted homeland. Furthermore, the author presents arguments to demonstrate that Girmitiya peasants survived the plantation labour and peasant life due to their knowledge and skills of agrarian cultivation, known as agrarian human capital. The scholarly literature about the labour migration from British India has focused heavily on the fate of the labourers. Consequently, the history of the Girmitiya peasants as well as the cultural heritage they have produced has been grossly neglected. This book purports to fill this void by telling the history of Girmitiya peasants in Suriname, a Caribbean society adjacent to former British Guyana.
Against Better Judgement: Rethinking Multicultural Society
The topics addressed in this book varies from issues in multicultural society to scholarship. In fourteen short essays the authors discuss crucial topics, including (personal sociology, arts, policy making, creolisation, diaspora communities, minority empowerment, political exclusion, homemaking, practice of science). This liber amicorum offers a unique collection of essays that opens a fresh window for everybody interested in multicultural societies, history, arts and social science. The contributions to this book represents a fine scholarship dealing with contemporary issues in society and academia. Contributors include: Peter A.G. van Bergeijk, Frank Bovenkerk, Miriela G.L. Carolina, Gürkan Çelik, Chan E.S. Choenni, Hans Crebas, Jaswina Elahi, Frits van Engeldorp Gastelaars, Roshni Ganpat, Halleh Ghorashi, Wiren Gowricharn, Rosemarijn Hoefte, Saira Jahangir-Abdoelrahman, Michiel van Kempen, Slawomir Magala, Brij Maharaj, Rinus Penninx, Artie Ramsodit, Hans Ramsoedh, Sandra Trienekens, Wilfred Uunk, and Tanya Wijngaarde.