Michaeline A. Crichlow, Professor of African and African American Studies

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.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	124 Campus Drive, 243 Friedl Bldg., Durham, NC 27708
Email Address:
Web Pages:	https://racespaceplace.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn9zKsplnWI&list=PLgBIp6MpvvCNr6moOHOuN54db_xB3kV_5&index=1

Teaching (Fall 2025):

• AAAS 321.01, VISUALIZING THE CARIBBEAN Synopsis

  Crowell 107, Th 03:20 PM-05:50 PM

  (also cross-listed as CULANTH 368.01, ICS 318.01, LATAMER 321.01)

• AAAS 450S.01, THE GLOBAL CARIBBEAN Synopsis

  Crowell 106, Th 10:05 AM-12:35 PM

  (also cross-listed as CULANTH 450S.01, ICS 418S.01, LATAMER 450S.01, SOCIOL 450S.01)

• AAAS 611S.01, CLIMATE CRISIS Synopsis

  Friedl Bdg 118, W 12:00 PM-02:30 PM

Office Hours:

Thursdays-3-4:00 or by appt.

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 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.

Keywords:

Agriculture and state • Globalization--Economic aspects--Developing countries • Plantations • postcolonial criticism • Postcolonial Criticism

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

• Patterson, Reginald  

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Crichlow, MA; Northover, PM, Whatever Happened to Diaspora, and Why Not Global-Blackness? Interrogating Black Time-Spaces for a Decolonial Agenda1, in Decoloniality in the Break of Global Blackness Movement Method Poethics (January, 2025), pp. 39-58 [doi]  [abs]
2. Northover, PM; Crichlow, MA, A Spectral Decoloniality in the Wake of the Slave Nomos, in Decoloniality in the Break of Global Blackness Movement Method Poethics (January, 2025), pp. 103-139 [doi]  [abs]
3. Crichlow, MA; Northover, PM, Decoloniality in the Break of Global Blackness: Movement, Method, Poethics (January, 2025), pp. 1-398 [doi]  [abs]
4. Crichlow, MA; Northover, PM, Introduction: Decoloniality in the Break of Global*Blackness — Movement, Method, Poethics, Decoloniality in the Break of Global Blackness Movement Method Poethics (January, 2025), pp. 1-35 [doi]  [abs]
5. Northover, PM; Crichlow, MA, Decolonial Notes on the Journey toward the Future: Négritude, Abject Blackness, and the Emancipatory Force of Spectrality, in Decoloniality in the Break of Global Blackness Movement Method Poethics (January, 2025), pp. 282-312 [doi]  [abs]

Conferences Organized

• Global Affirmative Action in an Age of Neoliberalism. November, 2012, Global Affirmative Action in an Age of Neoliberalism, 1 November 2012  
• Aimé Césaire and Negritude, October 4,5, 2013  
• States of Freedom: Freedom of States, Co-Organizer: A Duke/UWI joint venture, June 17-18, 2010  
• Global Affirmative Action in an Age of Neoliberalism, November, 2012  
• Symposium: Race, Space and Place: The Making and Unmaking of Freedoms in the Atlantic World and Beyond, April 13-14, 2007  
• Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, “The Art and Cultural Politics of Carnival”, Co-Director, July 5-15, 2005  
• “Interrogating the Globalization Project”, Co-Organizer and Participant, November, 2003  
• “Labor and Migration in the World Economy”, Co-Organizer, November, 2001