@article{fdi:010077348,
  title = {"{B}elmopan. {A} {N}ew {C}apital for a {N}ew {N}ation" {S}tate, nation and ethnicity at the time of independence},
  author = {{C}unin, {E}lisabeth},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{I}n {B}elize, a project for building a new capital emerged in the early 1960s, just after the ravages of {H}urricane {H}attie, which had destroyed much of the colonial capital, {B}elize {C}ity. {A}ccording to the common narrative, {B}elmopan was the answer to a natural threat. {B}ut this article will show that it was also a political strategy, intended to give the country a new, modern face, the symbol of a young nation on the road to independence (1981). {O}ne of the issues of this post-colonial state is the definition of a national 'us' and the place of ethnic groups inherited from the {B}ritish colonial administration's policy of 'divide and rule'. {T}he article shows that the politicisation of ethnicity entails neither its integration in the state nor its institutionalisation by the parties, but rather the emergence of 'citizenship from below'.},
  keywords = {{B}elmopan ; capital ; citizenship ; ethnicity ; nation ; state ; {BELIZE} ; {BELMOPAN}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{B}ulletin of {L}atin {A}merican {R}esearch},
  volume = {39},
  numero = {3},
  pages = {348--361},
  ISSN = {0261-3050},
  year = {2019},
  DOI = {10.1111/blar.13021},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010077348},
}