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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Montoute, Annita

Titel

Civil Society Responses to Trade Liberalisation: The Case of the Banana Industry in St. Lucia

Ist Teil von

• Journal of eastern Caribbean studies, 2019-12, Vol.44 (3), p.78-154

Ort / Verlag

Cave Hill: Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• St. Lucia's small banana farmers' livelihoods were destroyed when the United States (US) and Latin American countries challenged the European Union's preferential arrangements for Windward Islands' bananas in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in the 1990s. Despite the adverse impact on farmers' livelihoods, there was no progressive action aimed at global actors and structures. Instead, resistance via farmer protest group, the Banana Salvation Committee (BSC), targeted local actors. The paper argues that this approach placed the responsibility on the state to adjust to the dictates of neo-liberal globalising forces and hindered the agency of both the state and civil society to contest the unjust nature of neoliberal globalisation and pursue alternatives to the prevailing model. The paper concludes that the Caribbean academy needs to play a key role in this regard.