Camillo Gonsalves is the Minister of
Finance, Economic Planning,
Sustainable Development, and
Information Technology of Saint
Vincent and the Grenadines. He served
previous stints as the Minister of
Foreign Affairs and the Permanent
Representative of Saint Vincent and
the Grenadines to the United Nations.
Camillo has degrees in Journalism, Law
and Global Affairs from Temple
University, George Washington
University and New York University.
From the Introduction
“…the confluence of cultures and races, the geopolitical
imperatives and the geographic and topographical realities (of
the Caribbean) have conspired to produce societies and nations
that exist beyond conventional frames of reference or
forecasting models…. This exceptionalism…is indispensable to
any analysis that considers the past, perspective or path of
independent small island states….
The global entrenchment of neoliberal orthodoxy as our
planet’s guiding philosophical underpinning…represent(s) the
gilded cage that confines the developmental aspirations of
small islands…. The contradictions and constraints of those
policies and practices have caused island states to suffer the
unholy trinity of being globalised, climatised and stigmatised
to varying harmful degrees…. These pages…argue for reforms to
ensure that islands remain indomitable, but never ignored.”
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Globalised. Climatised. Stigmatised.
by Camillo Gonsalves