Hemispheric reconfigurations in Northern Amazonia: The ‘Three Guianas’ amid regional change and Brazilian hegemony

Bishop, Matthew Louis; Clegg, Peter; Hoefte, Rosemarijn

Abstract

© 2016 Southseries Inc., www.thirdworldquarterly.com. Regional and hemispheric reconfigurations in Latin America and the Caribbean are increasingly mediated by Brazilian power, and the engagement of Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana with this emerging context is intriguing. They are tentatively moving away from a Caribbean region with which they are culturally contiguous, towards a South American continent in which they are geographically located. This is partly a reflection of the gradual opening up of the Northern Amazonian space that they share collectively, and also with Venezuela and Brazil. These processes are occurring as cause and effect of Brazil’s emergence as a regional–and even regionally hegemonic–power. With reference to wider debates on regionalism and hegemony, we analyse the uncertain consequences of these shifts.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 20, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Feb 6, 2016
• Publication Date: Feb 1, 2017
• Deposit Date: May 4, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 6, 2017
• Journal: Third World Quarterly
• Print ISSN: 0143-6597
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 38
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 356-378
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2015.1135397
• Keywords: Brazil, Caribbean, decolonisation and colonization, global South, regionalism, small states
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/898991
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2015.1135397
• Contract Date: May 4, 2016