Leaving the Scene: A New Century

Abstract

In the introduction of this study, the question was raised on how the culture of domination and contestation manifested itself in twentieth-century Suriname and whether social changes affected the nature of this culture. I listed a number of continuities and discontinuities in the country’s history. In this concluding chapter I revisit these six points—demographic movements, political and constitutional changes, economic transformations, the multicultural society, Dutch influence, and economic dependency—to analyze the state of these affairs in the last decades of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first century.