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    Michaeline Crichlow

  • Michaeline Crichlow

  • Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies

  • Overview

    I am interested in projects related to citizenship, nationalism and development mainly in the Atlantic and Pacific regions. My current projects are focused on the sorts of claims that populations deemed diasporic make on states, and how these reconfigure their communities and general sociocultural practices. I am also interested in development's impact on social and economic environments, and the way this structures and restructures people's assessments of their spaces for the articulation and pursuit of particular kinds of freedoms. I have attempted to project these perspectives in my recent book, "Globalization and the Postcreole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation" (July 2009) and my current project: "Governing the Present: Vistas, Violence and the Politics of Place" that examines the quests for place and freedoms among populations in the Caribbean, Pacific and South Africa. I am also an associate research fellow on a project called 50:50 at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES) at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, that examines post-independence socio-economic developments primarily in the Anglophone Caribbean, and suggests new ways for rethinking development in the region. As well I am part of a SALISES international working group, on Rural Resilience and Agricultural Development Studies. The Agrarian component of my contribution to these projects, utilizes the arguments and methodology developed in my earlier text, "Negotiating Caribbean Freedom: Peasants and State in Development." Combining the theorizing of creolization in my recent text, "Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation," with issues of development particularly related to notions of resilience, sustainability, governance, processes of rural "othering," that emerge from this vibrant and highly productive project; I am better equipped to tackle the question of governance, violence, otherness, and the quest for freedoms-subjects centered in my new work.

  • Awards and Honors

    • Summer Fellowship. University of California Humanities Research Institute., 2013
    • Raising Cane: Recycling Sweetness and Power in Modern Jamaica. Grant from the Government of Jamaica., 2011
    • Islands, Images and Imaginaries. Grant, from Visual Studies, Duke University., 2010
    • John Hope Franklin Center imprimatur for Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination (2009). Duke University Press., 2009
    • Trent Award. Unknown., 2008

  • Professional Activities

    • Presentation
      • Aimé Césaire and Negritude. December 1, 2013
      • Islands, Images, Imaginaries. August 1, 2013
      • Global Affirmative Action in a Neoliberal Age. December 1, 2012
      • Caribbean Boat People. October 17, 2012
      • “From Fanon to Wynter in the Journey Towards the Human-The Liminal, The Hauntological and the Elusive Dream of Man: (Un)thinking the Political in the Socio-genetics of Place,”. July 20, 2012
      • “Land Labor and Identity in the Dominican Republic: Notes on a Politics of Place,". May 10, 2012
      • “Trans-oceanic Fictions of (Im)Mobility,”Caribbean Boat People. May 5, 2012
      • “Making Waves: (Dis)placements, Entanglements, Movements”. April 5, 2012
      • “Negotiating Caribbean Freedom: Situating “Development’s Agrarian Culture” in the ‘will to improve’ and the demand for authenticity.”. March 1, 2012
      • “Identifying Freedom: Implications for Civic Engagement. January 19, 2012
      • Colloquium, “Our America”: “Creolization, Americanity and America in the World System?”. April 1, 2011
      • Invited Book discussion (Globalization and the Post-creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation) discussion. March 1, 2011
      • Agrarian Issues in the Caribbean, from the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Research (SALISES 50/50 Research Project),. February 1, 2011
      • Small States and Citizens Struggling for Space: Agricultural Liberalization, ‘Democratic Deficits’ and the Rhetoric of Development. November 26, 2010
      • Roundtable discussion of my book Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination, at Antillanité, Créolité, Littérature Monde Colloquium. November 25, 2010
      • Rethinking Migration. November 17, 2010
      • “Small States and Citizens Struggling for Space: Agricultural Liberalization, ‘Democratic Deficits’ and the Rhetoric of Development presentation. November 1, 2010
      • Gens Anglaises,” Diasporic Movements: Remixing the World with Post-Creole Imaginations,”. November 1, 2010
      • Making Waves. June 18, 2010
      • “Power and Its Subjects: ‘Good’ Governance Dilemmas under Contemporary Globalization Processes. May 24, 2010
      • Making Waves: (Dis)Placements, Entanglements, Mo(ve)ments,” De-colonial Practices, Political Space, and Digital Culture. May 4, 2010
      • Creolization and the Politics of Place. April 2, 2010
      • Education, Development Freedom-. February 26, 2010
      • Caribbean Fictions: Haiti and the Ghosts of Hegemony. February 11, 2010
      • Homing Modern Freedoms - Creole Time on the Move. December 15, 2009
      • The European Left and the Post-Creole Imaginary. November 18, 2009
      • Rethinking the Mangrove. October 15, 2009
      • RE-THINKING DEVELOPMENT, GLOBALIZATION AND POWER – ‘CREOLIZATION’ ON THE MOVE. June 5, 2009
      • Spheres of Development, Spaces of Hope: Beyond the Plantation Peasant Binary. April 1, 2008
      • Small States and Citizens Struggling for Space: Agricultural Liberalization, ‘Democratic Deficits’ and the Rhetoric of Development. April 1, 2008
      • Afro Latino Workgroup. February 18, 2008
      • Latin American and Caribbean Symposium. February 18, 2008
    • Outreach
      • Sage Journal, Cultural Dynamics: Insurgent Scholarship on Culture, Politics and Power. Editor. 2013 - 2018
      • Center for African and African-American Research newsletter Spring. Editor. 2010 - 2015
      • Caribbean studies in an era of Globalization. Co-director. 2009 - 2011
      • ISER NEWS: Newsletter of the Institute of Social and Economic Research. Editor. University of the West Indies. 1989 - 1990
    • Service to the Profession
      • Global Affirmative Action in an Age of Neoliberalism. November 2012
      • Social and Economic Studies. February 14, 2011
      • co-ordinator reading group: China in Africa. 2011 - 2012
      • Chair of organizing committee (principal organizer) : Conference organized: Human Traffic: Past and Present. 2011

  • Selected Publications

  • Crichlow, MA, & Davis, G. (2016, July). Introduction. South Atlantic Quarterly , 115 (3), 437-440.
  • Crichlow, MA, & Gomez, ET. (2015, March 1). Revisiting affirmative action, globally. Cultural Dynamics , 27 (1), 3-18.
  • Crichlow, MA. (2015). Introduction: Global Affirmative Action and the politics of Neoliberalism. Cultural Dynamics , 27 (1), 3-18.
  • Metzger, S, Adrián, F-JH, & Crichlow, M. (2014, September 3). Introduction. Third Text , 28 (4-5), 333-343.
  • Crichlow, MA. (2014, August). Islands, Images, Imaginaries. Third Text , 28 (4 (special issue)), 333-343.
    • (Introduction)
  • Crichlow, MA. (2013, July 1). Human traffic-past and present. Cultural Dynamics , 25 (2), 123-140.
  • Various, . (2013). Cultural Dynamics: Insurgent Scholarship on Culture, Politics and Power. MA Crichlow (Ed.)..
    • (Journal volume)
  • Crichlow, MA. (2013). Decolonization in St. Lucia: Politics and Global Neoliberalism, 1945-2010. NWIG-NEW WEST INDIAN GUIDE-NIEUWE WEST-INDISCHE GIDS , 87 (3-4), 476-479.
  • Various, . (2013). Cultural Dynamics: Insurgent Scholarship on Culture, Politics and Power. MA Crichlow (Ed.)..
    • (Journal volume)
  • Crichlow, MA, & Northover, P. (2012, December). Rethinking the Mangrove of Caribbean Space and Time. Social and Economic Studies , 61 , 216-228.
    • (Academic Article)
  • Crichlow, MA, Northover, P, & Jenson, D. (2012, April). Introduction: Caribbean Entanglements in Times of Crises. The Global South , 6 (1), 1-14.
  • Crichlow, MA. (2012). Making Waves: (Dis)Placements, Entanglements, Mo(ve)ments. Global South , 6 (1), 114-137.
  • Crichlow, MA. (2011, September 1). Comment on Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay's "Politics of archiving: Hawkers and pavement dwellers in Calcutta". Dialectical Anthropology , 35 (3), 317-321.
  • Crichlow, MA, & Armstrong, P. (2010, July 1). Carnival praxis, carnivalesque strategies and Atlantic interstices. Social Identities , 16 (4), 399-414.
  • Various, . (2010, July). Carnival Crossfire: Art, Culture, Politics. MA Crichlow (Ed.). Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture , 16 (4).
    • (Special issue)
  • Various, . (2010, July). Carnival Crossfire: Art, Culture, Politics. MA Crichlow (Ed.). Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture , 16 (4).
    • (Special issue)
  • Crichlow, MA, & Northover, P. (2009, November 1). Homing modern freedoms: Creolization and the politics of making place. Cultural Dynamics , 21 (3), 283-316.
  • Various, . (2009, November). Race, Space, Place: The Making and Unmaking of Freedoms in the Atlantic World. M Crichlow and S Metzger (Eds.). Cultural Dynamics (Special Issue Editors) , 21 .
    • (Special issue)
  • Various, . (2009, November). Race, Space, Place: The Making and Unmaking of Freedoms in the Atlantic World. M Crichlow and S Metzger (Eds.). Cultural Dynamics (Special Issue Editors) , 21 .
    • (Special issue)
  • Crichlow, MA, Metzger, S, & Northover, P. (2009). Questioning Freedoms in the Atlantic World. Cultural Dynamics (Special Issue) , 2 (3), 215-225.
    • (Introduction)
  • Crichlow, MA. (2009). Caribbean Land and Development Revisited. NWIG-NEW WEST INDIAN GUIDE-NIEUWE WEST-INDISCHE GIDS , 83 (3-4), 337-340.
  • Crichlow, MA. (2007, September). A Response to My Critics in Book Discussion. Social and Economic Studies , 56 , 172-183.
  • Crichlow, MA, & Northover, P. (2007). Freedom, Possibility and Ontology: Rethinking the Problem of Competitive Ascent in the Caribbean. C Lawson, J Latsis & N Martins (Eds.)..
  • Patricia Northover, , & Crichlow MA, . (2006). Making Modern S/subjects: Sketching a Method for Theorizing C/creolization in Atlantic History and Fleeing the Plantation (Submitted). Theory and Society .
  • Crichlow, MA, & Northover, P. (2005). Beyond Survival: Rethinking the Strategies for Sustainable Economic Growth in the Caribbean. Social and Economic Studies , 54 (3), 247-274.
  • Crichlow, MA. (2004). Re-centering Resistance in the Context of Globality: Afro-Caribbean People under Colonial Rule. B Gaspar (Ed.). Contours: A Journal of the African Diaspora , 2 (1), 54-82.
  • Crichlow, MA. (2003, May). Neoliberalism, states, and bananas in the windward islands. LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES , 30 (3), 37-57.
  • Crichlow, MA. (2003). Revisiting Jamaica's 1980s: Maneuvers of an Embattled State Facilitating Neoliberalism from Within. Social and Economic Studies , 52 (2), 29-65.
  • Crichlow, MA, & Ledgister, F. (2003). Nationalists and Development: The Price of Citizenship in Colonial Jamaica. Plantation Society in the Americas , VI (2 & 3), 191-222.
  • Crichlow, MA. (2002). On the Move: The Caribbean, Diaspora and Atlantic Studies Program. International Accents , 3 (1), 4-5.
  • Crichlow, M. (1998, March 1). Reconfiguring the "informal economy" divide: State, capitalism, and struggle in Trinidad and Tobago. Latin American Perspectives , 25 (2), 62-83.
  • Crichlow, MA. (1998). Reconfiguring the Informal Sector Divide: State, Capitalism and Struggle in Trinidad and Tobago. Latin American Perspectives , 25 (2) (98), 62-83.
  • Crichlow, MA. (1997, December 1). The limits of maneuver: Caribbean states, small farmers and the capitalist world economy, 1940s-1995. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East , 17 (1), 81-98.
  • Crichlow, MA. (1997, December). Orpheus and power: The movimento negro of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1945-1988. IDENTITIES-GLOBAL STUDIES IN CULTURE AND POWER , 4 (2), 323-327.
  • Crichlow, MA. (1995). (Debates): Reply to Besson. New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids , 69 (3 & 4), 305-309.
  • Crichlow, MA. (1994). An Alternative Approach to Family-Land Tenure in the Caribbean : The Case of St. Lucia. New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids , 68 (1 & 2), 77-99.
  • Crichlow, MA. (1994). Report: 'Hunger 1993: Uprooted People' by Marc J. Cohen ed. Social and Economic Studies , 43 , 268-272.
    • (Review)
  • Crichlow, MA. (1992, March). DUALISM DEBUNKED, MULTIPLE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIIC RELATIONS IN THE ANGLO-CARIBBEAN AGRICULTURAL SECTOR. 1 (1).
  • Crichlow, MA. (1992). Dualism debunked: The influence of state, occupational multiplicity in the Agricultural sector in the Caribbean. Farm and Business , 1 , 1-1.
  • Crichlow, MA. (1992). Dualism debunked: The influence of state, occupational multiplicity in the Agricultural sector in the Caribbean. Farm and Business , 1 (1), 44-62.
  • Crichlow, MA. (1991). Farmers and Finance: experience with institutional savings and credit in West Java by H.A.J. Moll. Social and Economic Studies , 40 , 205-210.
    • (Review)
  • Crichlow, MA. Caribbean Land and Development Revisited. Jean Besson and Janet Momsen editors. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007. ix + 276. New West Indian Guide. , 83 .
    • (Review)
  • Crichlow, MA. Power and its Subjects: Development Dilemmas, Postcolonial Restructuring of Rural Spaces/Places/Identities and State Reconfigurations in Contemporary Globalization Processes (In preparation).
  • Crichlow, MA. An E-bay Imaginary Meets Social Inequality (In preparation).
  • Review
  • Crichlow, MA. (2013). Review of Tennyson Joseph, Decolonization in St. Lucia: Politics and Global Neoliberalism, 1945-2010. New West Indian Guide (NWIG) , 87 (4 & 4).
  • Crichlow, MA. (2012). Book Discussion with Patricia Northover: Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation (response to 3 discussants). Social and Economic Studies .
  • Crichlow, MA. (2011, September). The Theory of Plantation Economy by Lloyd Best and Kari Levitt, University of the West Indies Press, 2009. Social and Economic Studies , 60 , 205-212.
  • Crichlow, MA. (2009). Caribbean Land and Development Revisited by.Jean Besson and Janet Momsen editors, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007. New West Indian Guide (NWIG) , 83 (3 & 4).
  • Crichlow, MA. (2006). The Second Generation of Freemen in Jamaica, 1907-1944 by Erna Brodber. Nieuwe West-Indische Gids , 80 , 262-265.
  • Crichlow, MA. (2005). Come in, My Lords, Come in by Stanley French, St. Lucia, West Indies: Cricket and Cricketers. The Crusader .
  • Crichlow, MA. (2004, June). Wizards & Scientists: Explorations in Afro-Cuban Modernity & Tradition by Stephan Palmi, Durham: Duke University Press. Social and Economic Studies , 53 , 187-192.
  • Crichlow, MA. (2004). Martha Brae's Two Histories: European Expansion and Caribbean Culture-Building in Jamaica by Jean Besson, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. New West Indian Guide , 78 , 318-320.
  • Crichlow, MA. (2003). The George Beckford Papers by Kari Levitt ed., Kingston, Jamaica: Canoe Press, 2000. New West Indian Guide , 77 , 142-145.
  • Crichlow, MA. (2003). Community Formation: A Study of the village in Postemancipation Jamaica by Audley G. Reid. Kingston, Jamaica: Canoe Press, 2000. New West Indian Guide (NWIG) , 77 (1 & 2), 142-145.
  • Crichlow, MA. (1995). Orpheus and Power by Michael Hanchard. Identities , 4 , 323-327.
  • Crichlow, MA. (1994). The Jamaican People 1820-1920 by Patrick Bryan. Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 68, (3&4): , 68 , 360-362.
  • Crichlow, MA. (1994). Hunger 1993: Uprooted People by Marc J. Cohen ed. Social and Economic Studies , 43 (4), 268-272.
  • Crichlow, MA. (1992). An End to Hunger: Social Origins of Food Strategies by Solon Barraclough. Social and Economic Studies , 41 (4).
  • Crichlow, MA. (1991). Farmers and Finance: experience with institutional savings and credit in West Java by H.A.J. Moll. Social and Economic Studies , 40 (4), 205-210.
  • Journal Issue
    • (Special issue)
  • ., . (2014). Islands, Images, Imaginaries. MA Crichlow (Ed.). Third Text: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture , 129 .
    • (Special issue)
  • ., . (2013). Human Traffic: Past and Present. MA Crichlow (Ed.). Cultural Dynamics: Insurgent Scholarship on Culture, Politics and Power , 25 (2).
    • (Special issue)
  • ., . (2012). States of Freedom: Freedom of States. M Crichlow, D Jenson & P Northover (Eds.). The Global South , 6 (1).
    • (Special issue)
  • ., . (2010). Carnival Crossfire: Art, Culture, Politics. MA Crichlow (Ed.). Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture , 16 (4).
    • (Special issue)
  • ., . (2009). Race, Space, Place: The Making and Unmaking of Freedoms in the Atlantic World. MA Crichlow (Ed.). Cultural Dynamics: Insurgent Scholarship on Culture, Politics and Power , 2 (3).
    • (Special issue)
  • ., . Race and Rurality (In preparation). MA Crichlow (Ed.). The Global Economy .
    • (Special issue)
  • ., . Aimé Césaire: Negritude Revisited (In preparation). MA Crichlow and G Davis (Eds.). SAQ: The South Atlantic Quarterly .
    • (Special issue)
  • Book
    • (Edited Book)
  • Crichlow, MA. (2010, October). ARTiculating Caribbean Imaginaries: Four Caribbean Artists. FHI, Duke University.
    • (Exhibition Catalog)
  • Crichlow, MA. (2009, July). Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation. Duke University Press.
  • Crichlow, MA. (2005). Negotiating Caribbean Freedom: Peasants and the State in Development. Lanham: Lexington Books, Caribbean Studies Series.
  • (2000). Informalization: Process and Structure. MA Crichlow (Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • Crichlow, MA. Governing the Present: Mapping the Haitian/Dominican Divide in the Politics of Place (In preparation).
  • Crichlow, MA. Making Waves: (Dis)Placements, Entanglements, Mo(ve)ments (In preparation).
  • Book Section
    • Ian Randle Publishers.
  • Crichlow, MA. (2010). Creole Self-Affirmation: De-centering Resistance in the Context of Globalization. In G Richards and et al (Eds.), Intellectual Traditions of the Caribbean University of the West Indies Press.
  • Crichlow, MA. (2007, December). Plantations. In W Darity (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Farmington, MI: McMillan.
  • Northover, P, & Crichlow, MA. (2007). Freedom, Possibility and Ontology: Rethinking the Problem of Competitive Ascent in the Caribbean. In C Lawson, J Latsis & N Martins (Eds.), Developments in Social Ontology London:
    • Routledge.
  • Crichlow, MA. (2000, December). Part V: Conclusion: Living under the Long Shadows of Capital. In Tabak and Crichlow (Eds.), Informalization: Process and Structure Baltimore:
    • JHUP.
  • Crichlow, MA. (2000). Community Formation: A Study of the Village. In AG Reid (Ed.), Postemancipation Jamaica (pp. 142-145).
    • Kingston, Jamaica: Canoe Press.
  • Crichlow, MA. (1996). State Class and Agricultural Entrepreneurship in Trinidad and Tobago. In S Ryan (Ed.), Culture and Entrepreneurship in the Caribbean (pp. 53-92).
    • St. Augustine Republic of Trinidad and Tobago: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies.
  • Crichlow, MA. (1994). Stratification and the Small Business Sector in Trinidad and Tobago (reprint). In Entrepreneurship in the Caribbean: Culture Structure and Conjuncture (pp. 93-118).
    • Republic of Trinidad and Tobago: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies.
  • Crichlow, MA. (1991). Stratification and the Small Business Sector in Trinidad and Tobago. In S Ryan (Ed.), Social and Occupational Stratification in Contemporary Trinidad and Tobago (pp. 191-209).
    • St. Augustine, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago: Institute of Social and Economic Research,University of the West Indies.
  • Crichlow, MA. (1991). Stratification, Pluralism and Economic Power. In S Ryan (Ed.), Social and Occupational Stratification in Contemporary Trinidad and Tobago (pp. 52-57).
    • St. Augustine, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago: Institute of Social and Economic Research, Univeristy of the West Indies.
  • Crichlow, MA. (1987). La Politique Agricole, l’Etat et le Developpment Rural a Sainte-Lucie (Agricultural Politics, the State and Rural Development in St. Lucia). In C Deverre (Ed.), Enjeux Fonciers dans la Caraïbe, en Amerique Centrale et a la Reunion (pp. 39-64).
    • Paris: Inra et Karthala.
  • Crichlow, MA, & Northover, P. Land Grabs, Imperial Formations and the Politics of Space and Place– Mapping the China Effect in Africa (In preparation). In C Rojas and R Litzinger (Eds.), Development and Displacement: China and its Global Footprint Duke University Press.
    • (Chapter)
  • Crichlow, MA. Negotiating Caribbean Freedom: Situating “Development’s Agrarian Culture (In preparation). In The ‘Will to Improve’ and the Demand for Authenticity.
  • Conference Paper
  • Report
  • Crichlow, MA. (1989). Food Utilization in the Caribbean. Georgetown: Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.
  • (1989). Food Utilization in the Caribbean. Georgetown.
  • (1988). Intensive Farming and the Land Registration Programme in Choiseul: A Report. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin: The Land Tenure Center.

  • Selected Grants

    • JHFYS Program 2010
    • jhfys immersion 1