Regional governmentality: neoliberalization and the Caribbean community single market and economy

Newstead, C ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7047-2167, 2009. Regional governmentality: neoliberalization and the Caribbean community single market and economy. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 30 (2), pp. 158-173.

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Abstract

Formally launched on 30 January 2006, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Single Market and Economy (CSME) is, like many other regional economic initiatives, designed to create an economic space in which the uninhibited flow of goods, capital and skills across the borders of member states is anticipated to generate competitive business opportunities and external investment. Despite the intensification of such regional programmes, promoters and critics alike continue to consider CARICOM to be an intergovernmental organization dependent on the political will of member states as they negotiate the pressures of neoliberal globalization. In this paper, I argue that such a framing of regional integration in the Caribbean misses some of the tangible ways that CARICOM works beyond the sovereign intent of member states to enable the encroachment of neoliberal-style economic orders across the space of the region. I adopt a Foucauldian analytics of governmentality to unhinge CARICOM from the governments of its member states. Once freed from a persistent statism it becomes possible to consider the technical competencies through which CARICOM initiatives increasingly connect and cohere with neoliberal rationalities. My goal in developing such an analytics is not to suggest CARICOM operates as a superstate but rather to broaden the sites considered relevant to understanding the encroachment of neoliberalism in the Caribbean.

Item Type:	Journal article
Description:	The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com
Publication Title:	Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
Creators:	Newstead, C.
Publisher:	Wiley-Blackwell
Date:	2009
Volume:	30
Number:	2
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1111/j.1467-9493.2009.00364.x DOI
Rights:	Journal compilation © 2010 Department of Geography, National University of Singapore and Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd
Divisions:	Schools > School of Arts and Humanities
Record created by:	EPrints Services
Date Added:	09 Oct 2015 10:16
Last Modified:	09 Jun 2017 13:24
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/10453

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