Focuses on discourses of queer subjectivity, Maroon identity, and their relationship to Caribbean nationalism. A key aspect of the argumentis the idea that both queerness and marronage are marked by complex insider/outsider identity positions that resist and complicate binarist discourses of belonging and unbelonging.
Based on ethnographic material collected on the bi-national Caribbean island of Saint Martin and Sint Maarten, demonstrates how working class youngsters employ Conscious Reggae music and Rastafari ideology to cultivate a postnational and anti-capitalist sense of panhuman belonging.
