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Sociology and Anthropology Vol. 4(2), pp. 99 - 105
DOI: 10.13189/sa.2016.040207
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Fast Food Nationalism: Culinary Politics and Post-colonial Imaginaries in Trinidad and Tobago
Aaron Andrew Greer *
Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Pacific University, USA
ABSTRACT
Projects of nationalism in the post-colonial Caribbean have proven difficult to implement and sustain. Beleaguered by low revenues and high crime, extreme class inequality and high emigration rates, economic policies imposed by imperial powers and anemic investment in domestic programs and infrastructure, and governments destabilized by a congeries of external and internal forces, Caribbean countries have faced the daunting task of forging durable nationalist projects that promote investment of all kinds both by the state and the nation. Using an anthropology of the contemporary, I identify and analyze how the problem of post-colonial nationalism is evident in and affected by the presence of a fast food chain in Trinidad and Tobago.
KEYWORDS
Trinidad, Fast Food, Nationalism, Fragmentation, Assemblage, Post-colonial
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[1] Aaron Andrew Greer , "Fast Food Nationalism: Culinary Politics and Post-colonial Imaginaries in Trinidad and Tobago," Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 99 - 105, 2016. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2016.040207.
(b). APA Format:
Aaron Andrew Greer (2016). Fast Food Nationalism: Culinary Politics and Post-colonial Imaginaries in Trinidad and Tobago. Sociology and Anthropology, 4(2), 99 - 105. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2016.040207.