Women ’s Power and Communit y Resilience Rotating Savings and Credit Associations in Barbados and The Bahamas
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| author | Brent W. Stoffle |
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| contents | Women ’s Power and Communit y Resilience Rotating Savings and Credit Associations in Barbados and The Bahamas Brent W. Stoffle Richard W. Stoffle Jessica Minnis Kathleen Van Vlack Estudios Culturales micro credit Bahamas Barbados Rotating Savings and Credit Associations Rotating Savings and Credit Associations or ROSCA are perceived by many in the Caribbean as derived from West Africa where they were a traditional (pre-colonial) means of accumulating and distributing resources. Brought to the Caribbean as part of the non-material culture of African people, ROSCAs were reestablished and adapted to the new social, economic, and political conditions. Also a challenge for Africanancestry peoples was the creation of new communities in a suppressive social environment where such communities were perceived as a threat to established colonial order. This paper is based on historic documents and two separate ethnographic studies involving more than a thousand direct interviews. Although the two studies in Barbados and the central Bahamas had different purposes, both documented that these associations emerged as historically and contemporarily important to women and a foundation of their communities. The findings argue that beginning during slavery ROSCAs were used by women to achieve power (agency) and in so doing provided resilience to their community. 2014 artículo científico 0008-6533 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=39238126002 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=392 Caribbean Studies application/pdf Universidad de Puerto Rico Caribbean Studies (Puerto Rico) Num.1 Vol.42 |
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| spellingShingle | Women ’s Power and Communit y Resilience Rotating Savings and Credit Associations in Barbados and The Bahamas Brent W. Stoffle Estudios Culturales micro credit Bahamas Barbados Rotating Savings and Credit Associations Women ’s Power and Communit y Resilience Rotating Savings and Credit Associations in Barbados and The Bahamas Brent W. Stoffle Richard W. Stoffle Jessica Minnis Kathleen Van Vlack Estudios Culturales micro credit Bahamas Barbados Rotating Savings and Credit Associations Rotating Savings and Credit Associations or ROSCA are perceived by many in the Caribbean as derived from West Africa where they were a traditional (pre-colonial) means of accumulating and distributing resources. Brought to the Caribbean as part of the non-material culture of African people, ROSCAs were reestablished and adapted to the new social, economic, and political conditions. Also a challenge for Africanancestry peoples was the creation of new communities in a suppressive social environment where such communities were perceived as a threat to established colonial order. This paper is based on historic documents and two separate ethnographic studies involving more than a thousand direct interviews. Although the two studies in Barbados and the central Bahamas had different purposes, both documented that these associations emerged as historically and contemporarily important to women and a foundation of their communities. The findings argue that beginning during slavery ROSCAs were used by women to achieve power (agency) and in so doing provided resilience to their community. 2014 artículo científico 0008-6533 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=39238126002 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=392 Caribbean Studies application/pdf Universidad de Puerto Rico Caribbean Studies (Puerto Rico) Num.1 Vol.42 |
| title | Women ’s Power and Communit y Resilience Rotating Savings and Credit Associations in Barbados and The Bahamas |
| topic | Estudios Culturales micro credit Bahamas Barbados Rotating Savings and Credit Associations |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=39238126002 |