Maroons and Indigenous Peoples versus the State in Suriname

2023/07/03 by Ric N. Price · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Caribbean history, culture, and politics #Colonialism, slavery, and trade #Global Maritime and Colonial Histories

paper · doi:10.1080/10714839.2023.2247758

openalex publication_date 2023/07/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29

Abstract

In 2020, Suriname struck oil. Just a year after neighboring Guyana began drilling in its own recently identified offshore blocks, Suriname announced some of the largest new oil and gas discoveries ...

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• this has been going on for a long time e.g. Maroons and Indigenous Peoples versus the State in Suriname doi.org/10.1080/1071... "Today, the economy has three main pillars: cocaine smuggling, logging [bsky, 2 points, 1 comments]

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