“…In the Caribbean, which encompasses the islands and mainland countries such as Belize, Guyana, and Suriname, there is an almost uniform experience of colonisation and capital exploitation that was based on chattel slavery and plantation economies (Beckford, 1972; Robinson et al, 2023; Williams, 2001). The lengthy periods of conquest by various European powers, primarily the British, French, Dutch, and Spanish, have served to fracture the region (Besson, 2002; Robinson et al, 2023), displacing Indigenous peoples, creating economies dependent on intense extractivism (e.g., mining, tourism), alongside significant variability in national‐level governance structures, and ethnic and linguistic fragmentation (see Bonilla, 2015; Robinson et al, 2023). The resulting ‘long‐standing patterns of power that [have] emerged as a result of colonialism … [help] define culture, labor, intersubjective relations, and knowledge production well beyond the strict limits of colonial administrations’ (Maldonado‐Torres, 2007, p. 243).…”