Jacobites, Jamaica and the Establishment of a Highland Catholic Community in the Canadian Maritimes

2021 ◽  
Vol 100 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-217
Author(s):  
S. Karly Kehoe

This article uses the sale of Glenfinnan and Glenaladale in 1773 to explore how the colonial ambitions of an elite catholic family connected the northwest Highlands and Islands of Scotland with Jamaica in the Caribbean and St John's Island (Prince Edward Island) in what would later become the Canadian Maritimes. It highlights two equally significant Highland pasts at play—colonised and coloniser—and posits that they can never be fully reconciled. Each past stands as a testament to the reality of imperialism. It establishes important markers about the need to think of the longevity of the impact of the money earned in the Caribbean and how its influence was often felt across generations. While this is essentially a case study of one family cluster, the patterns that emerge of how money was earned, spent and re-invested in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is representative of many others.

Author(s):  
Angelique V. Nixon

Chapter five offers another case study of a tourist dependent economy and local resistance to paradise discourse in Jamaica while focusing on the negotiations of what Krista Thompson describes as a “tropical landscape of desire.” This chapter examines the multifaceted approach to challenging neocolonialism and participation in “resistance culture” by Jamaican writer, activist, and scholar Erna Brodber. Brodber utilizes both creative work and cultural activism to resist exploitative consumption of the Caribbean; in the novel Myal and research project Blackspace and Educo-tourism. This chapter also considers the work of Jamaican filmmaker Esther Figueroa in her documentary Jamaica For Sale about tourism, unsustainable development, and the impact on the environment and working class Jamaicans. In comparing these two very different responses to the burden of paradise, this chapter offers an analysis of how environment and class work to complicate cultural and political activism and desire for ethical and non-exploitative relations within and through a tourism dependent economy.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ylber Limani ◽  
Edmond Hajrizi ◽  
Rina Sadriu

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