MC: Aaron Kamugisha: Caribbean Thought: A Workshop (GCSC)
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- MC: Aaron Kamugisha: Caribbean Thought: A Workshop (GCSC)
- 2017-05-10T10:00:00+02:00
- 2017-05-10T14:00:00+02:00
May 10, 2017 from 10:00 to 02:00 (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)
Phil I, Building B, R.029
The focus of this master class will be the emerging field of Caribbean Thought, an arena of inquiry encompassing developments in intellectual history, political thought, cultural criticism and philosophy. I will provide a summary of the development of this field, followed by a discussion of my own and others attempts to proffer a critical survey of it. Finally, I will consider the specific links between the field of Caribbean Thought and the wrenching debates surrounding post-colonial citizenship in the Anglophone Caribbean.
//Aaron Kamugisha is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. His current work is a study of coloniality and freedom in the contemporary Anglophone Caribbean, mediated through the thought of C.L.R. James and Sylvia Wynter. He is the editor of a number of edited collections on Caribbean thought, including Caribbean Political Thought: The Colonial State to Caribbean Internationalisms (2013), Caribbean Political Thought: Theories of the Post-Colonial State (2013) and, with Yanique Hume, Caribbean Cultural Thought: From Plantation to Diaspora (2013) and Caribbean Popular Culture: Power, Politics and Performance (2016). He is a member of the editorial working committee for the journals Social and Economic Studies, Journal of West Indian Literature, and Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism.