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Title: From local Creoles to global Creoles : insights from the Seychelles
Authors: Choppy, Penda Theresia
Keywords: Globalization -- Seychelles
Globalization -- Social aspects
Seychelles -- Social life and customs
Nationalism -- Seychelles
Issue Date: 2020-05
Publisher: University of Malta. Islands and Small States Institute
Citation: Choppy, P. T. (2020). From local Creoles to global Creoles : insights from the Seychelles. Small States & Territories, 3(1), 57-70.
Abstract: In this paper, Seychellois society is discussed from the perspective of a small island society whose smallness and insulation in its early formation contributed to the emergence of a very distinctive type of creole culture and identity. This is symptomatic of other island creole societies in the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean, which have been described as culturally hybrid populations, as a result of 17th-19th Century colonialism and slavery. Political connections between these societies have led to the construction of a wider creole identity, based on their shared history. More recently, these plantation types of creole societies have come to realise that they must share their creole identity more widely since, as a result of globalisation and the acceleration of migration, the metropoles of the world are becoming centres of creolisation in the sense of mixing and hybridity. Is this the same process that occurred in places like Seychelles and Martinique, and is this what is happening in Europe, with the advent of immigration from the Global South? Or, should the term ‘creolisation’ be reserved for a particular historical and sociocultural situation resulting from plantation slavery? In other words, is creolisation a global or localised phenomenon? Furthermore, can these new metropolitan centres of creolisation learn anything from the way small creole island states and territories have adapted to their social environment, or should they continue to be seen as the core from which modernity and progress flow to the periphery?
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/56498
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