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One of the most salient issues in Caribbean studies is the region's linguistic and cultural fragmentation as a result of European colonization. More than five centuries later, the islands and American countries whose shores touch the Caribbean Sea still echo such maladies. The title of this book is a call towards unity, a unity that, in the words of Barbadian poet, historian and critic Kamau Brathwaite, "is submarine." In the past, nations' borders were established based on the distance a cannon ball was able to cover when fired from land out to sea. It is time to go beyond the cannon ball distances out into uncharted territories, beyond the canon, and, thus, beyond the cannon's range.This book features a selection of essays presented at the fifth annual Caribbean Without Borders conference at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. It critically delves into the fields of linguistics, history, literature, philosophy, politics, feminism, cultural studies, music, film, and art, among many others, as a means to re-visit, re-view, re-envision, re-read, re-interpret, and thus re-create a Caribbean aesthetics that looks to submarine unity, a unity that defies spatial, temporal, and social borders. The book conveys the limitless nature of the Caribbean and its rich culture, making it an appealing transdisciplinary source for a multidisciplinary academic audience

IN PROMOTING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ONE MUST FIND THE MEANS BY WHICH A PATTERN OF SUSTAINED TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE, RESULTING IN INCREASING OUTPUT AND INCOME, CAN BE ACHIEVED. SEEN IN THIS WAY, TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE IS ONLY THE PROXIMATE, NOT THE BASIC AND ULTIMATE, SOURCE OF MODERN ECONOMIC GROWTH. IT IS TRUE THAT PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH IS THE PRIMARY MEANS BY WHICH A LONG-TERM INCREASE IN PRODUCTION IS ACHIEVED; BUT FOR NEW TECHNOLOGY ITSELF "TO BE EMPLOYED EFFICIENTLY AND WIDELY, AND INDEED, FOR ITS OWN PROGRESS TO BE STIMULATED," WRITES SIMON KUZNETS (1973: 65), "INSTITUTIONAL AND IDEOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENTS MUST BE MADE" THUS, IF ADVANCING TECHNOLOGY IS A SUFFICIENT CONDITION FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH, IT IS NECESSARY TO CREATE AN INSTUTIONAL CONTEXT IN WHICH THE APPLICATION OF MODERN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING TO LOCAL PRODUCTION IS FEASIBLE AND IS ENCOURAGED. FAILING TO ESTABLISH SUCH A DOMESTIC INSTUTIONAL CONTEXT, ANY NATION-SOCIALIST OR NONSOCIALIST-IS SEVERELY HANDICAPPED IN ITS EFFORT TO ACHIEVE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. TO THE EXTENT THAT SUCH INSTITUTIONS ARE NOT PRESENT, A NATION'S GROWTH WILL BE DEPENDENT UPON THE IMPORTATION OF RESOURCES AND PRODUCTION METHODS FROM ABROAD. GROWTH IN OUTPUT MAY OCCUR IN THIS WAY; THE HOST COUNTRY MAY, IN FACT, BE THE BENEFICIARY OF FAVORABLE RESOURCE FLOWS. BUT SUCH GROWTH WILL BE AT GREAT RISK. A DECREASE IN THE INFLOW WILL SLOW THE RATE OF GROWTH, AND THE COUNTRY WILL BE POORLY EQUIPPED TO GENERATE A COMPENSATING ROUND OF GROWTH BASED UPON ITS PY: 1984