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Dec 08

Jan Carew interviewed by Joy Carew

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Jan Carew, Guyanese scholar-activist whose work spanned seven decades, has joined the ancestors at the age of 92.
 

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Dec 05

Farewell Angela, from Norman

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Words at the celebration of the life of Angela Cropper, UWI, 4 December 2012

It is difficult to speak without repetition at this stage of the proceedings; after so many have spoken so eloquently about Angela; and from the heart.But I would like to say that of all the qualities that we have heard about; the quality that most earned for Angela the love and respect and esteem of her colleagues, her friends, was the quality of integrity…

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A woman of etiquette and distinction Bhoe Tewarie

 

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Nov 12

Passing of Angela Cropper

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Angela was a personal friend and colleague of twenty-five years standing. From her position in the Caricom Secretariat she mobilised continuous support for the Consortium Graduate School of Social Sciences; I in turn admired her sterling work in the environment, governance, and equitable development. I have been honoured to serve on the Board of the Foundation that she founded along with her late husband, John. She confronted the final challenge of her life with grace and courage. “Tell my friends I went down fighting”, were among her last words to me as I visited with her for the last time two months ago. A finer exemplar of the best that the Caribbean has to offer the world, one could hardly find.  
 

Announcement on the passing of Angela Cropper The Cropper Foundation

From the UNEP Executive Director

IUCN mourns the loss of one of the environment’s brightest lights IUCN

Leave a message, thought or light a candle for Angela by visiting this place

Seven deadly sins of Caribbean culture Angela Cropper

 

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Nov 05

The Continuing Relevance of Dr Eric Williams, Reginald Dumas

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Reggie Dumas shows how in speech after speech, the late Dr Eric Williams returned to the themes of economic and psychological independence and of regional action across the Caribbean space. Fifty years after constitutional independence, his ideals remain relevant. This lecture was delivered at Florida International

DUMAS ERIC WILLIAMS MEMORIAL LECTURE

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Sep 05

Climate Change and the Future of Caribbean Development, Matthew Bishop and Anthony Payne

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This article traces the dramatic impact that climate change presages for Caribbean development and goes on to analyse the region’s responses at the global, regional and national levels. It questions the significance of this for Pan-Caribbean development and proposes a research agenda for the Caribbean centred on the political economy of climate change.

Click HERE to download a free copy (limited offer) or email matthew.bishop@sta.uwi.edu for a copy.

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Aug 26

Walter Rodney Papers Online

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Ten of Walter Rodney’s classic papers on imperialism, class struggle and the way forward for Africa and the Caribbean are now available online.

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Jun 28

Gordon K. Lewis on Race, Class and Ideology in the Caribbean: A personal note and a cautionary tale, Norman Girvan

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The absence of a bibliography and citations of sources has led to at at least one unfortunate error

Click to read,  A Personal Note and a Cautionary Tale

Attachment: Race: Documentation

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Jun 21

Meditation for a Forgotten Past: Translating and Remembering Haiti’s Intellectual Legacy, Myriam J. A. Chancy

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Introduction in honor of Haiti and the Trans-Caribbean Literary Identity/Haití­ y la transcaribeñidad literaria by Emilio Jorge Rodriguez (tr. Marí­a Teresa Ortega)] St. Martin Book Fair, June 2, 2012. Dr.Chancy, who was born in Haiti, is Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati

There is a struggle to create a bridge of words that can explain the gulf between the heralded legacies of the Revolution,   — which scholars return to time and again with a fine-tooth comb, often with little interest in the descendants of the Revolution, ideological or living — .and the continued perilous degrading state of the Haitian nation and the vast majority of its inhabitants…

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Jun 14

Walter Rodney Lives, Norman Girvan

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Introduction to Panel Discussion on How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, June 13 2012

The first point I want to make is that Walter Rodney was not a racial chauvinist. He did not support racially based politics. In the current racially polarised political climate of certain Caribbean countries, it is important to emphasise this in learning the lessons of Walter’s work…

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Apr 22

Shifting the Geography of Reason, Caribbean Philosophical Association

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Racial Capitalism and the Creole Discourses of Native-,Indo-, Afro-, and Euro-Caribbeans.

Under this broad heading, the Caribbean Philosophical Association (CPA) will take as the organizing theme of its upcoming Annual Meeting to be held at UWI Trinidad July 19-21 2012, the impact of the global capitalist crisis on old and new thinking in the creole discourses of the region.

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