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Creolization, Americanity and the Americas in the World System

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2011 64:15


Michaeline A Crichlow is Associate Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies at Duke University. She is interested in projects related to citizenship, nationalism and development mainly in the Atlantic and Pacific regions. Michaeline's 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. She is 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. She has attempted to project these perspectives in her new book, Globalization and the Postcreole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation (July 2009) and her current project, Power and its Subjects: Development Dilemmas, Postcolonial Restructuring of Rural Spaces/Places/Identities and State Reconfiguration. The title for the Spring 2011 Colloquium series is "Our America: Cross Currents and Intimate Dialogues in the Making of a Hemisphere." The idea of America has long been dissected and reconstituted by a number of ideologues, theorists, policymakers, artists, activists, and ordinary people. Each has sought to craft a new existence that distinguished itself from "Old World" tyranny and tensions, significantly through the creation of imagined communities of identity and belonging, based on various cultural, political-economic, and social criteria. In a "New World" where delineations of territory and definitions of home have shifted as populations, resources, and hegemonies respond to global and local forces, debated claims to "our America" (to borrow from 19th century Cuban intellectual Jose Marti) reveal "America" to be an extraordinarily malleable notion, one that shapes and reflects understandings of belonging, identity, rights, and justice--across shifting borders and diverse conceptualizations of region and hemisphere. Emphasizing anthropological and historical approaches, this course will explore "our America" as simultaneously sites of empirical practice and imagined ways of being, where the interfaces, or cross currents among "American" ideas, dialogues, and communities raise questions about the ways data inform categories of analysis as well as categories of experience

Indigenous Founding and Governance of Colonial Tlaxcala

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2010 75:09


City, Spanish America, Spanish Colony, Indigenous, Governance

The Urbanizing of Global Challenges: Can Cities Re-invent their Civic Capacities

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2010 44:13


nyu, gsas, graduate school of arts and science, clacs, center for latin american studies, City, Urban Incompleteness, Norm-Making

Arte y Política: Los Últimos Años

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2010 66:44


nyu, gsas, graduate school of arts and science, clacs, center for latin american studies, caribbean, cuba

Ghost Dance in the Field of the Cold War

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2010 64:11


nyu, gsas, graduate school of arts and science, clacs, center for latin american studies, caribbean, cuba

Lezama's Fiestas

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2010 81:58


nyu, gsas, graduate school of arts and science, clacs, center for latin american studies, caribbean, cuba

Cuba, 1959: From Political to Social Revolution

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2010 46:41


nyu, gsas, graduate school of arts and science, clacs, center for latin american studies, caribbean, cuba

Rebelion en los Andes y la Amazonia del Peru, Pt. 4

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2010 27:59


nyu, gsas, graduate school of arts and science, clacs, center for latin american studies, latin america, Andes, decolonization, Peru

Rebelion en los Andes y la Amazonia del Peru, Pt. 3

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2010 27:59


nyu, gsas, graduate school of arts and science, clacs, center for latin american studies, latin america, Andes, decolonization, Peru

Rebelion en los Andes y la Amazonia del Peru, Pt. 2

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2010 27:59


nyu, gsas, graduate school of arts and science, clacs, center for latin american studies, latin america, Andes, decolonization, Peru

Rebelion en los Andes y la Amazonia del Peru, Pt. 1

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2010 27:59


nyu, gsas, graduate school of arts and science, clacs, center for latin american studies, latin america, Andes, decolonization, Peru

Hilando Fino desde el Feminismo Comunitario, Pt. 2

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2010 35:48


nyu, gsas, graduate school of arts and science, clacs, center for latin american studies, latin america, Andes, decolonization, Bolivia, Feminism

Hilando Fino desde el Feminismo Comunitario, Pt. 1

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2010 35:46


nyu, gsas, graduate school of arts and science, clacs, center for latin american studies, latin america, Andes, decolonization, Bolivia, Feminism

La Lucha de los Pueblos Indigenas de la Amazonia peruana, Pt. 2

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2010 26:41


nyu, gsas, graduate school of arts and science, clacs, center for latin american studies, latin america, Andes, decolonization, Peru, Amazon

La Lucha de los Pueblos Indigenas de la Amazonia peruana, Pt. 1

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2010 26:41


nyu, gsas, graduate school of arts and science, clacs, center for latin american studies, latin america, Andes, decolonization, Peru, Amazon

Children and Human Rights in Haiti

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2010 45:15


nyu, gsas, graduate school of arts and science, clacs, center for latin american and Caribbean studies, Haiti, Children, Earthquake

A History of Haiti's Poverty

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2010 36:43


nyu, gsas, graduate school of arts and science, clacs, center for latin american and caribbean studies, Caribbean, Haiti, Earthquake, poverty

Epistemic Rupture, Affirmative Action or 'Reverse Racism'?: Decolonizing Knoledge in Evo's Bolivia

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2010 46:12


nyu, gsas, graduate school of arts and science, clacs, center for latin american studies, latin america, Andes, decolonization, Bolivia, Education, Neoliberalism

Indigenous Women Reshaping Feminism: Voices from the Field

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2010 45:12


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Queer Cuba? Sexual Politics in the Afterlife of Revolution

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2010 29:49


nyu, gsas, graduate school of arts and science, clacs, center for latin american studies, caribbean, cuba

Racial Eruptions: The Awkward Place of Blackness in Indian Centered Spaces of Mestizaje

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2010 54:43


nyu, gsas, graduate school of arts and science, clacs, center for latin american studies, latin america, racism

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