Law and Property Rights in Small Island States in the Caribbean: A Modern Mode of Colonial Plunder.
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Location research
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2019
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University of Curaçao (Universidat di Kòrsou)
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en_US
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978-99904-4-063-8
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Abstract
Legal rules should be reflective of domestic social values, and while they are structurally institutionalized in Caribbean societies, they are also reflective of a colonial past, and in many cases represent a continuation of the dependency that characterizes the emergence of neo-colonialism. Laws of many Caribbean States defer to metropolitan institutions which are divorced from the current social context from which they ought to derive. This article intends to explore briefly the theoretical and contextual underpinnings of legal rules regarding property rights that can guide our insights into issues of critical importance to their proper formulation and enforcement in Western neoliberal societies and neo-colonial Caribbean societies. The protection of property rights has particular impact on the tourism sector in the Caribbean, where there has been an implicit and pervasive acceptance of the neoliberal legal model that allows, for example, the establishment of chain hotels on small islands. This has resulted in new modalities of colonialism, if we define colonialism as the exploitation of the resources of the South by the resurgent metropoles of the North.
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Taylor, Don (2019). Law and Property Rights in Small Island States in the Caribbean: A Modern Mode of Colonial Plunder. In Faraclas, Nicholas, Ronald Severing, Christa Weijer, Elisabeth Echteld, Wim Rutgers and Sally Delgado (Eds.) (2019). Creative Contradictions: Unsettling resonances in the study of the languages, literatures and cultures of the Dutch Caribbean and beyond. Proceedings of the ECICC, Aruba 2018. Volume 1