Through the Political Glass Ceiling by Dr Kris Rampersad captures the build-up to the election of Kamla Persad-Bissessar with historical analyses and insights into the journey of the first woman Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago.
Engendered Insights
It provides historical and socio-cultural analyses and contexts that examine the role of gender, culture and geography in the politics of this developing country.
This book presents the paradox of politics and society in Trinidad and Tobago in the context of the contest for leadership between the country’s longest standing political entity, the People’s National Movement, and the first female leader of a political party, United National Congress’ Kamla Persad-Bissessar.
Culture of Diversity in Caribbean Politics
An incisive introduction by Kris Rampersad and overview inscriptions by Dr Kris Rampersad on the culture of diversity in Caribbean politics, it sets selected speeches of Persad-Bissessar against the backdrop of multiculturalism, gender, and geo-politics.
It provides refreshing insights into the interplay between minority and dominant political ideologies as post-Independent T&T struggles for articulation and definition of a truly encompassing national identity.
Historical analyses of political evolution
Ranging through the country’s experiences with political parties under Dr Eric Williams, through the period of the National Alliance for Reconstruction and ANR Robinson to the period of voting deadlock at the turn of the century involving Basdeo Panday and Patrick Manning, it presents the situations and contexts of Persad-Bissessar’s controversial political career.
Chronological Roadmap of First PM’s socio-cultural political journey
In doing so, it provides roadmaps of Persad-Bissessar’s journey to T&T’s highest political offices, through to the defining moments of the May 2010 snap election.
Written Compiled Introductions & Contexts
It is compiled with introduction and contexts by Dr Kris Rampersad, a journalist and sustainable development educator/facilitator in culture and gender sensitive leadership, heritage educator, journalist, researcher, writer and publisher who has been has exploring the diversity of Caribbean society and cultures for more than three decades…
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