Imperial Geographies and Caribbean Nationalism: At the Border between "A Dying Colonialism" and U.S. Hegemony

Abstract

THE CONQUEST AND TRANSFORMATION OF HISTORICAL SPACE IS A FUNDAMENtal narrative of the capitalist West represented in classical political economy by Europe's plundering of Africa and the "New World" for the creation of a single world market. 1 Progressively conceptualized and written as a Western narrative of exploration and science, bringing with it modernity, the long-term objective of Western imperialist expansion has remained the preservation of the ideal global conditions for capitalist accumulation. 2 At the height of Europe's political and military expansion into the modern colonial world, imperialist discourses defined the concentration of capital as the main force behind the carving up of the entire world by a few dominant European nation-states. 3 In the contemporary period, however, discourses of imperialism must engage with the economic hegemony of the United States and its drive to maintain a monopoly of the use of force, on the one hand, and, on the other, the emergence of counternarratives of modernity and freedom. [End Page 151]

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