Research Interests for Michaeline A Crichlow

I am interested in projects related to citizenship, nationalism and development mainly in the Atlantic and Pacific regions generally. My current projects are focused on the sorts of claims that populations deemed diasporic make on states, and how this reconfigures 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 new book, Globalization and the Postcreole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation (July 2009) and my current project: "Power and its Subjects: Development Dilemmas, Postcolonial Restructuring of Rural Spaces/Places/Identities and State Reconfiguration."

Current projects:

I am working on two book length 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 assumptions of development policies propagated by the World Trade Organization and organizations like the World Bank in ACP countries.

Recent Publications

1. Editor, Carnival Crossfire: Art, Culture, Politics (16: 4, 2010) (Accepted as a special issue of Social Identities: Journal for the study of Race, Nation and Culture.)
2. Caribbean Land and Development Revisited,. Jean Besson and Janet Momsen editors. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007. ix + 276, New West Indian Guide., vol. 83 no. 3&4 (Fall, 2009)
3. Co-editor, Race, Space, Place: The Making and Unmaking of Freedoms in the Atlantic World, Cultural Dynamics (Special Issue Editor) (Fall, 2009) (forthcoming.)
4. with Sean Metzger and Patricia Northover, “Questioning Freedoms in the Atlantic World”, Cultural Dynamics (Special Issue) (Fall, 2009) [author's comments]
5. with Patricia Northover, “Homing Modern Freedoms: Creolization and the Politics of Place,” (Fall, 2009) [author's comments]