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In an age of rampant xenophobia and the nativist imperative to undo globalization for a return to a bygone, "purer" age, can patently modern identities indefinitely sustain their messages of inclusion and equality? This volume serves to answer this and other pressing existential questions by tracing the development of the Caymanian people from the colonial era into our modern globalized, multicultural age. The emergence of Caymanian nationalism is extensively analyzed and confirmed as a phenomenon that was preceded by fragmented Caymanian identities informed by issues of race and class. Despite this, the native Caymanian people were able to successfully jettison their race-thinking, and in so doing, began to see themselves as members of a singular nationality. This notion of national and cultural solidarity, as this book details, has become a vexing issue, and is now being duly tested given the astonishing numbers of immigrants in Cayman, many of whom are keen to become Caymanians themselves.

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PROLOGUE -- Introduction -- 1 It Was War Time -- 2 The Whiff of Nepotism? -- 3 Jam Tomorrow -- 4 Every Pepsi Needs a Coke -- 5 We Are Going to Beat Up Sky -- 6 Throw Rocks at Our House and We'll Napalm Your Village -- 7 The Rise of the Bike -- 8 The Guarantor of Independence Is Profit -- 9 It Was Payback Time -- 10 The Whole Organisation Was in a State of Shock -- 11 We're Too Big and They Don't Like It -- 12 Netflix Is Just HBO with a Decent IT Department -- 13 The Moment Has Come -- 14 James Fought Like A Tiger. Again. -- 15 Protect the Content Budget -- 16 Pivoting at a Pivotal Moment -- 17 The Knowledgeable Cab Driver -- 18 The Biggest and Most Dangerous Gamble of All -- NOTES.

Section I. Caymanian ethnogenesis: accounting for the antagonistic processes and racial identities that led to a distinct Caymanian cultural outlook characterized by material hardship -- Becoming native Caymanian -- The more things change: the stubborn decline of racialism during immediate post-emancipation -- Section II. Toward and beyond a monolithic Caymanian cultural identity bound by material hardship -- And then there was light: the shaping conditions of a distinct national-cultural Caymanian identity and its subsequent traditionalisms -- Bringing traditionalist ideas and conceptions to bear on a cultural Caymanian identity beset by material hardship -- The sustenance of Caymanian identity in geographical displacement: a case study approach -- Outgrowing the surrogate mother: accounting for the dramatic shift in Caymanian perceptions toward Jamaica and Jamaicans during the federation era -- Section III. Mapping the effects of globalization, multiculturalism, ethnocentrism, and xenophobia on expanding "Caymanian" identifications -- Proliferating Caymanianness: accounting for the factors that lead to division within Caymanian nationality -- Theory in practice: bringing the legitimacy of carnival and the carnivalesque to bear on fractured rhetorical Caymanian culture -- Conclusion: Why can't we all just get along?

This study looks at environmental problems from the perspective of the victims. The bottom line consequences are often damaging to the health of individuals or communities and they raise a wide range of issues concerning justice, international and environmental law, public health, occupational health and health policy, social policy and welfare, international relations and security. All of these issues are addressed by the contributors, and the work is designed for a spectrum of readers, whether concerned with industrial hazards and occupational health, relevant agreements or treaties, environ

In this volume the author examines verbal constructions in prescriptive legal texts written in English. Modal auxiliaries such as shall, may and must are analysed, as well as indicative tenses such as the present simple, and also non-finite constructions such as the -ing form and -ed participles. Results are based on specially compiled corpora of prescriptive texts coming from a wide range of English-speaking countries and also international organizations such as the European Union and the UN. The author also analyses the nature, extent and impact of the calls for change in legal language comi

Leadership accountability - for violence, corruption and environmental harm - is a new aspect of globalization and civil society. This innovative forward-looking analysis explains how 'cumulative lock-in' fuels leadership deceit. The lessons are for those learning to be, or learning to question, leaders

Considers the social justice and human rights implications of environmental disasters, arguing that perpetrators of these disasters should be held accountable and victims should have greater redress for their suffering. The contributors hold that for too long companies have been shielded from liability for industrial accidents and pollution that causes disease among local populations, and that such problems should be treated as questions of justice first, before they are considered as medical problems to be treated within the medical system.

Politicians often deploy analogies to shape public discourse. If picked up by the media, these references to the past can powerfully shape how political events are perceived. This article examines why some analogies became popular through an exploration of the creation and development of the analogy comparing Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the leader of the Inkatha Freedom Party in South Africa, to Jonas Savimbi, the leader of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, during South Africa's transition. Tracing the evolution of the Buthelezi–Savimbi comparison through an analysis of media reports indicates that analogies that possess predictive power are likely to gain traction in public discourse and become effective tools for policy advocacy.