Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition

Ghosh, William

doi:10.1080/00086495.2020.1722382

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“…I pair this with my ethnographic reading of the decommissioning, just below, with Caribbean questions on sovereignty. Aaron Kamugisha (2019) and Yarimar Bonilla and Max Hantel (2016) (in conversation with Trouillot) demand visions of sovereignty that are bound to neither state power nor the forces of racial capitalism. Reading these authors, sovereignty requires decolonial sensibilities and institutions as modelled by a Caribbean Black radical tradition (Kamugisha 2019) and the “unsettling” (a critique) of colonial formations of nationhood that decolonisation cannot fulfil (Bonilla 2017).…”

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“…Aaron Kamugisha (2019) and Yarimar Bonilla and Max Hantel (2016) (in conversation with Trouillot) demand visions of sovereignty that are bound to neither state power nor the forces of racial capitalism. Reading these authors, sovereignty requires decolonial sensibilities and institutions as modelled by a Caribbean Black radical tradition (Kamugisha 2019) and the “unsettling” (a critique) of colonial formations of nationhood that decolonisation cannot fulfil (Bonilla 2017). While performances of repair as demonstrated in the decommissioning must reckon with the unsettling of state sovereignty, how do we make sense of ongoing attachments to statehood and calls for independence in the Caribbean today?…”

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Tek Down Nelson! The Struggle for Repair in Barbados

Simone

2023

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In this article I explore how the decommissioning of the statue of Lord Horatio Nelson captures some of the ways justice is envisioned within Barbados. I ask: How does the decommissioning generate more attention to the reparations question? How is repair and sovereignty conceptualised through the performances that animated and structured the event? What do these performances suggest about the Barbadian geographic-historical foundation? I engage theorists of Black geographies and Black studies to work through the above questions. I do close readings of the performances featured in the ceremony, to illuminate how the decommissioning gestured to a range of histories and struggles that are punctuated by political transformation. My reading draws attention to how the statue's removal builds on regional demands for reparations and Barbadian struggles for sovereignty, which I argue are complementary aims.

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Tek Down Nelson! The Struggle for Repair in Barbados

Simone

2023

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“…R. Gordon, 2014;Reddock, 2014;J. A. Gordon et al, 2016;Kamugisha, 2019;Gutiérrez Rodríguez & Reddock, 2021;L. F. Lewis, 2021).…”

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“…Contributions in the humanities influenced the global discourse of anti‐colonial thought in the 1940s and from the 1990s onwards (Césaire, 1950; Fanon, 1986; Gilroy, 1993; Hall, 2002; James, 1938), and social scientists elaborated on the importance of the colonial plantation system for Caribbean societies as well as the challenges of Caribbean knowledge production (Henry, 2000; Sankatsing, 2001; Bogues, 2003; Best & Levitt, 2009; Girvan, 2010; L. R. Gordon, 2014; Reddock, 2014; J. A. Gordon et al., 2016; Kamugisha, 2019; Gutiérrez Rodríguez & Reddock, 2021; L.F. Lewis, 2021).…”

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Colonial Scholars and Anti‐Colonial Agents: Politics of Academic Knowledge Production Between the West Indies and London in the Mid‐20^thCentury

Cramer¹

2023

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This paper analyses the socio-spatial entanglement of West Indian anti-colonial knowledge production in the mid-20 th century existing between London and the Caribbean. This is interpreted as a case of the paradoxical politics of academic knowledge production in that British imperial policies that were constraining knowledge production in the West Indies were also seen as facilitating anticolonial awareness and work in London by West Indian actors. Research demonstrating the importance of the metropole as a meeting place for global anti-colonial actors is complemented by shifting the focus to the entangled space between London and the West Indies. This article comparatively analyses the academic politics of the British Colonial Office -a spatial dislocation of knowledge production away from the West Indies -and its perception and challenge by Caribbean intellectuals who were temporarily based in London. The analysis builds on contributions by C.L.R. James and S. Wynter and their reflections on the institutionalisation of research in the West Indies and their experiences in London. Overall, I emphasise a relational and symmetrising analysis of knowledge production in imperial contexts that accounts for the entanglement of imperial politics in the metropole and the colonies, and the perception and potential use of these political entanglements by actors in and from colonial contexts.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Black Women Navigating the Doctoral Journey

Fries-Britt,

Turner Kelly

2023

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With the increasing focus on the critical importance of mentoring in advancing Black women students from graduation to careers in academia, this book identifies and considers the peer mentoring contexts and conditions that support Black women student success in higher education. This edited collection focuses on Black women students primarily at the doctoral level and how they have retained each other through their educational journey, emphasizing how they navigated this season of educational changes given COVID and racial unrest. Chapters illuminate what minoritized women students have done to mentor each other to navigate unwelcome campus environments laden with identity politics and other structural barriers. Shining a light on systemic structures in place that contribute to Black women's alienation in the academy, this book unpacks implications for interactions and engagement with faculty as advisors and mentors. An important resource for faculty and graduate students at colleges and universities, ultimately this work is critical to helping the academy fortify Black women's sense of belonging and connection early in their academic career and foster their success.

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Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition

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Colonial Scholars and Anti‐Colonial Agents: Politics of Academic Knowledge Production Between the West Indies and London in the Mid‐20^thCentury

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