Michaeline A Crichlow, Associate Professor of Sociology, Associate Professor of African and African American Studies

Contact Info:

Office Location:	243 Friedl Building
Office Phone:	(919) 681-6947
Email Address:

Teaching (Spring 2012):

• AAAS 199S.09, MIGRATION & HUMAN TRAFFICKING Synopsis

  Friedl Bdg 240, TuTh 01:15 PM-02:30 PM

  (also cross-listed as CULANTH 180S.07, LATAMER 199S.01, SOCIOL 197S.03)

• AAAS 299S.07, CITIZEN/SUBJECT: NEOLIBERAL AGE Synopsis

  Friedl Bdg 240, Tu 04:25 PM-06:55 PM

  (also cross-listed as CULANTH 280S.05, LATAMER 299S.01, SOCIOL 299S.03)

Specialties:

Diaspora Studies
Cultural Studies

Research Interests: Globalization, Development Studies, Postcoloniality, Nationalism/citizenship

Current projects: I am working on projects, focusing on the nature of citizenship claims of mainly South Asian descendants and Native populations in Fiji, the Caribbean, and South Africa, and on the impact and underlying ontological assumptions of development policies propagated by the IMF, World Trade Organization and organizations like the World Bank in ACP countries.

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 for Social and Economic Research 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 Caribbean region. The Agrarian component of my contribution on this large project, 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 reposition myself to tackle the question of governance, violence, otherness, and the quest for freedoms-subjects centered in my new work.

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

• Patterson, Reginald  

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Co-editor, States of Freedom: Freedom of States, special issue, forthcoming, vol. 1 no. 6 (Spring, 2012), The Global South. Indiana University Press
2. M.A. Crichlow, Making Waves: (Dis)Placements, Entanglements, Mo(ve)ments,”, The Global South, vol. 6,1, (Spring, 2012)
3. M.A. Crichlow (editor), Carnival Art, Culture & Politics: Performing Life (2012), Routledge Press (forthcoming.)
4. M.A. Crichlow, The Theory of Plantation Economy, by Lloyd Best and Kari Levitt, Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2009., Social and Economic Studies, vol. 60 no. 3&4 (September/December, 2011), pp. 205-212
5. M.A. Crichlow, “Comment” on Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay's, “Politics of archiving: hawkers and pavement dwellers in Calcutta,”, Dialectical Anthropology (June 11, 2011)