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Michaeline A. Crichlow

Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies
African & African American Studies
Box 90252, Durham, NC 27708-0252
124 Campus Drive, 243 Friedl Bldg., Durham, NC 27708

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.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies · 2012 - Present African & African American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

In the News


Published February 11, 2022
The Many Meanings of Decolonization
Published September 3, 2013
Good Question: Who Owns the Commons?

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Recent Publications


Unpayable debt: What lies beneath 1

Journal Article Cultural Dynamics · November 1, 2023 Full text Cite

Of "Realities and Possibilities"

Journal Article Small Axe · November 1, 2023 Within the logic of our present behavior-orienting telos of "development" and "economic growth," any "strategy" designed to secure the material basis of Black Africa as a viable, unified and geopolitically nonvulnerable, multiethnic, multicreedal in Kenya, ... Full text Cite

Introduction: Moral and Market disordering in the time of Covid-19

Journal Article Cultural Dynamics · August 1, 2021 Featured Publication This special issue composed of essays that brainstorm the triadic relationship between Covid-19, Race and the Markets, addresses the fundamentals of a world economic system that embeds market values within social and cultural lifeways. It penetrates deep i ... Full text Open Access Cite
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Recent Grants


Power and its Subjects: Good Governance Dilemmas Under Contemporary Globalization

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation · 2008 - 2009

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