Michaeline Crichlow, Associate Professor
Office Location: 243 Ernestine Friedl Bldg,, Rm. J
Office Phone: +1 919 6816947
Email Address: crichlow@duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/racespaceplace/index.php
Research Categories: Globalization, Development Studies, Postcoloniality, Nationalism/citizenship
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.
Research Description: 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 forthcoming book, Globalization and the Postcreole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation and my current project: "Power and its Subjects: Development Dilemmas, Postcolonial Restructuring of Rural Spaces/Places/Identities and State Reconfiguration."
Recent Publications (More Publications)
- Plantations, in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd edition, edited by William Darity (December, 2007), Farmington, MI: McMillan .
- with Patricia Northover, Size, Survival and Beyond: A Critical Under-labouring for Fleeing the Plantation, in The Thought of the New World: The Quest for Decolonization, edited by Norman Girvan and Brian Meeks (2008), Ian Randle Publishers [author's comments].
- with Patricia Northover, Freedom, Possibility and Ontology: Rethinking the Problem of Competitive Ascent in the Caribbean,”, in Contributions to Social Ontology,, edited by Lawson, C., Latsis, J., and Martins, N., (eds) (2007), London: Routledge [author's comments].
- Editor, Carnival Crossfire: Art, Culture, Politics (2006) (Under Review.) .
- Creole Self-Affirmation: De-centering Resistance in the Context of Globalization, in Intellectual Traditions of the Caribbean, edited by Glen Richards et al (2006), University of the West Indies Press (In press.) .