The National Project and the Role of the Engaged Intellectual in the South, Yash Tandon
Keynote Address, Conference on “Reinventing the Political Economy Tradition of the Caribbean”, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES), University of the West Indes, Mona, Jamaica, March 26, 2008.
Dr. Tandon is Executive Director of the South Centre
In this lecture I focus on what may not be common knowledge among young intellectuals…those who come from an earlier tradition know it as the “National Project” – a project that began before countries in the South got their independence from colonial rule, a project that continued for several years after political independence, and then, in the era of globalization, it died a sudden death. It needs to be revived, just as the Caribbean tradition of political economy needs to be reinvented…
