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Michaeline Crichlow
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Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies
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Box 90252, Durham, NC 27708-0252
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124 Campus Drive, 243 Friedl Bldg., Durham, NC 27708
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Phone:
(919) 681-6947
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Email:
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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.
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Awards and Honors
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Summer Fellowship. University of California Humanities Research Institute., 2013
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Raising Cane: Recycling Sweetness and Power in Modern Jamaica. Grant from the Government of Jamaica., 2011
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Islands, Images and Imaginaries. Grant, from Visual Studies, Duke University., 2010
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John Hope Franklin Center imprimatur for Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination (2009). Duke University Press., 2009
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Trent Award. Unknown., 2008
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Professional Activities
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Presentation
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Aimé Césaire and Negritude. December 1, 2013
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Islands, Images, Imaginaries. August 1, 2013
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Global Affirmative Action in a Neoliberal Age. December 1, 2012
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Caribbean Boat People. October 17, 2012
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“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
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“Land Labor and Identity in the Dominican Republic: Notes on a Politics of Place,". May 10, 2012
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“Trans-oceanic Fictions of (Im)Mobility,”Caribbean Boat People. May 5, 2012
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“Making Waves: (Dis)placements, Entanglements, Movements”. April 5, 2012
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“Negotiating Caribbean Freedom: Situating “Development’s Agrarian Culture” in the ‘will to improve’ and the demand for authenticity.”. March 1, 2012
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“Identifying Freedom: Implications for Civic Engagement. January 19, 2012
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Colloquium, “Our America”: “Creolization, Americanity and America in the World System?”. April 1, 2011
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Invited Book discussion (Globalization and the Post-creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation) discussion. March 1, 2011
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Agrarian Issues in the Caribbean, from the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Research (SALISES 50/50 Research Project),. February 1, 2011
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Small States and Citizens Struggling for Space: Agricultural Liberalization, ‘Democratic Deficits’ and the Rhetoric of Development. November 26, 2010
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Roundtable discussion of my book Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination, at Antillanité, Créolité, Littérature Monde Colloquium. November 25, 2010
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Rethinking Migration. November 17, 2010
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“Small States and Citizens Struggling for Space: Agricultural Liberalization, ‘Democratic Deficits’ and the Rhetoric of Development presentation. November 1, 2010
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Gens Anglaises,” Diasporic Movements: Remixing the World with Post-Creole Imaginations,”. November 1, 2010
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Making Waves. June 18, 2010
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“Power and Its Subjects: ‘Good’ Governance Dilemmas under Contemporary Globalization Processes. May 24, 2010
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Making Waves: (Dis)Placements, Entanglements, Mo(ve)ments,” De-colonial Practices, Political Space, and Digital Culture. May 4, 2010
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Creolization and the Politics of Place. April 2, 2010
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Education, Development Freedom-. February 26, 2010
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Caribbean Fictions: Haiti and the Ghosts of Hegemony. February 11, 2010
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Homing Modern Freedoms - Creole Time on the Move. December 15, 2009
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The European Left and the Post-Creole Imaginary. November 18, 2009
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Rethinking the Mangrove. October 15, 2009
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RE-THINKING DEVELOPMENT, GLOBALIZATION AND POWER – ‘CREOLIZATION’ ON THE MOVE. June 5, 2009
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Spheres of Development, Spaces of Hope: Beyond the Plantation Peasant Binary. April 1, 2008
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Small States and Citizens Struggling for Space: Agricultural Liberalization, ‘Democratic Deficits’ and the Rhetoric of Development. April 1, 2008
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Afro Latino Workgroup. February 18, 2008
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Latin American and Caribbean Symposium. February 18, 2008
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Outreach
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Sage Journal, Cultural Dynamics: Insurgent Scholarship on Culture, Politics and Power. Editor. 2013 - 2018
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Center for African and African-American Research newsletter Spring. Editor. 2010 - 2015
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Caribbean studies in an era of Globalization. Co-director. 2009 - 2011
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ISER NEWS: Newsletter of the Institute of Social and Economic Research. Editor. University of the West Indies. 1989 - 1990
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Service to the Profession
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Global Affirmative Action in an Age of Neoliberalism. November 2012
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Social and Economic Studies. February 14, 2011
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co-ordinator reading group: China in Africa. 2011 - 2012
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Chair of organizing committee (principal organizer) : Conference organized: Human Traffic: Past and Present. 2011
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Selected Publications