Memory, Migration and (De)Colonisation in the Caribbean and Beyond

Webb, Jack (EDT); Westmaas, Rod (EDT); Del Pilar Kaladeen, Maria (EDT); Tantam, William (EDT)

ISBN 10: 190885765X / ISBN 13: 9781908857651

Editore: University of London Press, 2020

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• Titolo: Memory, Migration and (De)Colonisation in the Caribbean and Beyond
• Editore: University of London Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 190885765X
• ISBN 13: 9781908857651
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

This edited volume provides interdisciplinary perspectives on the interpellation of migration and (de)colonisation, paying particular attention to how these two phenomena have been experienced and have impacted upon one another in the Caribbean and its diasporas. The volume advances our understanding of processes of (de)colonisation as a set of multidirectional processes. The term ‘(de)colonisation’ encapsulates the multiplicity of processes of colonisation that are advancing and receding simultaneously across various contexts. This work represents an ambitious project to integrate a range of perspectives on continuing processes of (de)colonisation. Eminent historians of enslavement, Geoffrey Cubitt and Laurajane Smith, have recently highlighted the urgent need to include the contributions of practitioners in academic discussions concerning race (2011). With a similar ethos, the chapters in this volume represent a conversation between academics, the interested public, and community activists to promote a more democratic and publicly engaged analysis of decolonisation and Caribbean migration. To this end, the editors have decided to include the contributions of practitioners alongside chapters by academics. These chapters, shorter in length that the academic pieces, provide forceful and scholarly critiques of experiences of migration and (de)colonisation. Taken together, the chapters thus illustrate the importance and validity of collaboration between the academy and the interested public.

Memory, Migration, and (De)colonisation thus provides original, timely, and important contributions to the historiographies of (de)colonisation and migration and, above all, serves to enhance our understanding of the various experiences of Caribbean pasts and presents.

Informazioni sull?autore

Jack Webb is a lecturer in the Division of History, University of Manchester, whose focus is the cultural history of the Caribbean and the British Empire. His forthcoming monograph Haiti in the British Imagination, 1847–1904 (Liverpool University Press, 2019), examines the various ways in which the post-colonial and &;black&; state was rationalized by those with interests in the British Empire. He has published in the Journal of Caribbean History and Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism.

Roderick Westmaas is an independent researcher and Co-founder and Director of the community organization GUYANA SPEAKS. He is a Windrush era migrant, being born and returning to be schooled in Guyana, and has worked across the United States, Caribbean and the U.K. He and his wife, Dr. Juanita Cox-Westmaas, were recently awarded the Guyana High Commission Award for Service to the Guyanese Community.

William Tantam is Postdoctoral Fellow in Caribbean Studies, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, and directs the Centre for Integrated Caribbean Research. His work focuses on embodiment and agency in relation to class, gender, and power in the Caribbean. His forthcoming publications include An Ethnography of Class and Masculinities in Jamaica: Letting the Football Talk (Bloomsbury, 2019).

Maria del Pilar Kaladeen is an Associate Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. She works on the colonial history of the system of Indian indenture in Guyana (1838-1917). Maria is the co-editor of We Mark Your Memory: Writing from the Descendants of Indenture (SAS Publications, 2018) and a contributor to Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children (Headline, 2018). Her monograph on indenture in Guyana is forthcoming with University of Liverpool Press.