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The People's Mall located in Port of Spain, Trinidad, is an area especially designated for small scale retail store businesses. Vendors who decide to install retail businesses in the area are given preferential treatment since they are exempt from all state taxes. Although the People's Mall is viewed by tourists and some of the locale populace as a haven for criminal activity, it has been highly succesful in its goal of providing a favorable environment for small scale public sector investment activities.

This paper explores the impact of local parenting practices and children's everyday use of public space within two villages in the rural South West of England, an issue that has been underexplored in recent research. Drawing upon the concept of hybridity, it explores the interplay between the social, natural and material in shaping local cultures of rural parenting. The paper begins by drawing upon recent research on parenting in the global North, the gendering of rural space and hybridity to show how these bodies of work can be interlinked to better understand rural parenting practices and norms. Through empirical research that focused on the relationships between gendered parenting strategies, idealised notions of rural motherhood and materiality, the paper explores the diverse ways in which a group of working and middle-class mothers construct and define ideas about their children's lives and mobilities. Whilst dominant discourses of rurality focus upon the idyll, and gendered identities of rural women still remain within the domestic sphere, so we examine how these deeply embedded notions of ‘normality’ can be powerful social tools in rural villages, mobilised through discourses of materiality and anxiety. In our conclusions, we argue that the hybrid integration of the material and social provides a useful framework for understanding the everyday geographies of rural parenting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents information on the Caribbean region. European and North American perceptions of the Caribbean Sea and its many islands; Other views of the region; Basic characteristics of Caribbean states; Contemporary patterns of production and economic change in the Caribbean. INSET: Caribbean history in brief: A mix of many peoples.