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Fighting against history, nature and politics

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Fighting against history, nature and politics
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small-scale farmers, agricultural production and self-sustainability on St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.
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Laurencin
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Edith
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1969-
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Edith Laurencin
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David M Hughes
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Ramos-Zayas
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Rutgers University
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My dissertation looks at small-scale farmers on St. Croix U.S. Virgin Islands and their attempts to revive agriculture to mitigate fears surrounding food and financial insecurities on an island severely impacted by the 2008 U.S. economic recession. I argue that it is their determination to be self-sufficient and successful that appear to be the surest path to agriculture’s success. In re-envisioning themselves as independent business men, they have not only recast themselves from the margins of society but have revived farming using narratives of the land to create an alternate sense of their significance and adopted aspects of the US local food movement to create demand for their own locally grown food. It is a deliberate attempt at self-achievement on the one hand but also with intent to make the government realize the potential of agriculture as economically viable rather than continuing to court other industries to alleviate the islands financial issues. My dissertation will add to the recently burgeoning research¬¬ on agricultural renaissances and local food movements in the Caribbean; add ethnographic insight to the literature on stimulating local domestic agriculture in the Caribbean that currently tends to focus on production rather than on the producers; and contribute to the scholarship on neoliberal entrepreneurial self-making.
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Anthropology
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Sustainable agriculture--Virgin Islands
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Farmers
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by Edith Laurencin
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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