Books by Michaeline A Crichlow
Cultural Dynamics, 2021
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This is the introduction to a book on Race and Rurality in the Global Economy that was just publi... more This is the introduction to a book on Race and Rurality in the Global Economy that was just published by the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton University and SUNY Press (October 2018).
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Notes on the Journey toward the Future: Négritude, Abject Blackness, and the Emancipatory Force o... more Notes on the Journey toward the Future: Négritude, Abject Blackness, and the Emancipatory Force of Spectrality
Patricia M. Northover and Michaeline A. Crichlow
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This essay advances an “interpretive analytic” to analyze the character of the politics and strategic intent in Aimé Césaire's poetics and life work. In so doing, it focuses on Césaire's commitment to the method of poetics articulated through the project and politics of négritude. It argues that Césaire's interventions should be treated as part and parcel of the set of cultural practices gathered under the rubric of “creolization” and that his concern is to conduct a “Creole line of escape” from the hegemony of modern cultures of power. The essay teases out the mode of opening that Césaire sought after in “dwelling with power” and eschews a premature closure on his négritude. Certainly, the problem of blackness is implicated in the undoing of the sets of contradictions embedded in our contemporary historical legacy. However, the essay argues that it is the spectral case of “abject blackness” that lies at the heart of Césaire's critique. Given the peculiarity of the conditions sustaining this experience of “being-black-in-the-world,” the essay interprets Césaire's poiesis through an analysis of the aesthetic and aesthetic judgment and within a class of performances called liminal acts.
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Drawing on rich insights from cultural, post-structural and postcolonial studies, the book’s cont... more Drawing on rich insights from cultural, post-structural and postcolonial studies, the book’s contributors demand that we rethink Carnival and the carnivalesque as not just celebratory moments or even as critical subtext, but also as as insightful performatives of social life anywhere, given the entangled times and spaces of these performances.
The authors in this volume review Carnival’s performative aspect then not merely as a calendrical festival, but rather center attention on the relationship between carnival and everyday life, and on how people negotiate their social spaces and possibilities in the context of modern power. The book therefore seeks to highlight the knotted time-spaces of power and to demonstrate the dynamic interplay between state spaces and people’s spaces that are being weaved by carnival's interlocutors.
When focusing on Carnival the contributors ferret out its complex and even contradictory meanings in relation to aspects of social life, offering understandings that range from a recycling of tradition to that which encompasses the desire for difference and change. This address to the event, the place and people and the general engagement with non carnival and carnivalesque cultural practices reinforces attention to intrinsic connectivities oftentimes lost in studies of Carnival proper. Critiquing tightly drawn notions of resistance and fantasy, by analyzing ludic performances in the United States, Europe, the Caribbean, Latin America. All of the contributors speak engagingly and sensitively about these dynamic sociocultural practices engendering the relationship between the temporalities of Carnival and non-Carnival, and seek to account for their symbiotic connections.
In this way, Carnival and the Carnivalesque become analytic optics through which the relations of power in the social and political life of subjects who seek to tacitically or strategically vary their given identities, can be productively engaged.
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Papers by Michaeline A Crichlow
Small Axe, 2023
This essay addresses Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972) in relation to three... more This essay addresses Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972) in relation to three moments: the time of its writing and publication; that of the next major global political epoch, the neoliberal turn of the 1970s and 1990s; and our current moment, when compounded crises bound up with the afterlives of colonialism—coming to a head in the form of planetary climate catastrophe and its attendant sociopolitical degradations—have rightfully renewed demands for a decolonization of the contemporary world. The three orientations that guide the essay—the conflict between Indigenous spatio-temporalities of life and experience as they underwent forced conformity with a homogeneous, “empty” time and space underpinning Eurocentric ideas of capitalist progress as well as the advancement of communism/socialism; a critique of unilinear Development models; and How Europe Underdeveloped Africa as a predecessor to contemporary decolonial theory—signal an approach to alternative modes of knowing for generating new possibilities for life.
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Social and economic studies, 2005
... sketch of a method for theorizing C/creolization" by M. Crichlow, and P. Northover, pape... more ... sketch of a method for theorizing C/creolization" by M. Crichlow, and P. Northover, paper presented at the 2005 SALISES Annual Conference and forthcoming essay in Globalization and the Post Creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation by Michaeline Crichlow with P ...
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Contemporary Sociology, 2002
Since the 1970s, the rapid and unexpected growth of the informal economy in the core zones of the... more Since the 1970s, the rapid and unexpected growth of the informal economy in the core zones of the world economy - the United States in particular - has been the focus of much scholarly investigation. To examine the social and spatial pervasiveness of this world-historical process usually associated with the Third World, Faruk Tabak and Michaeline A. Crichlow bring together a group of contributors to broaden the historical and geographical context for the study of informalization. Demonstrating the cyclical patterns of expansion and contraction through which the informal economy has developed, the authors trace the history of the informal economy within and against that of capitalism, from the 14th century to the 20th. They look at the present global situation of the informal economy, inside and outside the order established by American hegemony. They examine the factors - at both the state and grassroots level - to determine its likely trajectory in the near future. They also revisit the relationship between capitalism and informalization, questioning the usefulness of the concept of informality itself.
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Social and Economic Studies, 2012
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Cultural Dynamics, 2015
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The Global South, 2012
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on Caribbean boat people, who are being victimized by state/society p... more ABSTRACT This paper focuses on Caribbean boat people, who are being victimized by state/society politics at home and abroad, and who seek a line of escape across treacherous ocean routes to the North or South. Migration literature explains these movements, in terms of forms of displacement deriving from the push and pull of development. Such a casting reflects the post-colonial (nation)-states' pursuit of “freedom's charms” in the alchemy of becoming “First World.” Yet another reading is possible and necessary. I suggest that these hope-filled mo(ve) ments, often risking tragic encounters with death, also require one to investigate the socio-cultural imaginaries entangled in these (dis) placements and movements. I see these socio-cultural imaginaries as ways of interpreting that reflect lived modes of writing and conducting existence, or one's place in the world, rather than manifesting “explicit ideologies” (Salazar 8, Gaonkar). By way of rethinking the structuring of migrants' movements through visual, poetic, and cultural religious practices I seek to explore these imaginaries as quests by Caribbean boat people for elusive dreams of freedom. I also offer to apprehend their movements through an optic of the will-to-place — a certain kind of political consciousness instrumentalized through cultural forms. This approach allows for an exploration of the challenges to the expression of this will in terms of struggles for “citizenness,” or a place in modern freedom, and against the disorders of contemporary neo-liberal governmentalities, marked by the marketization of social relations and the contractualization of citizenship.
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Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 2015
This essay, in discussion of Citizenship From Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom by Mimi ... more This essay, in discussion of Citizenship From Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom by Mimi Sheller, underscores the need to historicize Caribbean sociocultures as complex ensembles of heterogeneous practices. It lauds efforts to sustain the investigation of the gendered agential capacities of Caribbean working people in their relation with various manifestations of modern cultures of power. The essay questions the liberatory potential of erotic agency or power, arguing for it to be theorized beyond sexually active bodies, particularistic identities and the social and hegemonic landscapes of sexual politics. Erotic agency, it posits, should be situated and historicized in a broader web of social relations, especially given the potentially contradictory effects of its exercise.
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Cultural Dynamics, 2021
This special issue composed of essays that brainstorm the triadic relationship between Covid-19, ... more This special issue composed of essays that brainstorm the triadic relationship between Covid-19, Race and the Markets, addresses the fundamentals of a world economic system that embeds market values within social and cultural lifeways. It penetrates deep into the insecurities and inequalities that have endured for several centuries, through liberalism for sure, and compounded ineluctably into these contemporary times. Market fundamentalism is thoroughly complicit with biopolitical sovereignty-its racializing socioeconomic projects, cheapens life given its obsessive focus on high growth, by any means necessary. If such precarity seemed normal even opaque to those privileged enough to reap the largess of capitalism and its political correlates, the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic with its infliction of sickness and death has exposed the social and economic dehiscence undergirding wealth in the U.S. especially, and the world at large. The essays remind us of these fissures, offering way...
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Routledge, 2007
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Informalization: Process and Structure TABAK FarukCrichlow Michaeline.
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Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination
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Carnival Art, Culture and Politics, 2012
... Identity and Elite Idyll: A comparison of carnival in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Montevideo,... more ... Identity and Elite Idyll: A comparison of carnival in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay, 1900-1920 Kristen McCleary, George Mason University, USA 7. Carnival time in theKingdom of Coal Mary Hufford, University of Pennyslvania, USA 8. Carnivals against ...
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Cultural Dynamics, 2009
Page 1. © The Author(s) 2009. Reprints and permissions: http://www.sagepub.co.uk/ journalsPermiss... more Page 1. © The Author(s) 2009. Reprints and permissions: http://www.sagepub.co.uk/ journalsPermissions.nav 21(3): 215225. [DOI: 10.1177/0921374008350291] http://cdy.sagepub.com QUESTIONING FREEDOMS IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD ...
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Patricia M. Northover and Michaeline A. Crichlow
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This essay advances an “interpretive analytic” to analyze the character of the politics and strategic intent in Aimé Césaire's poetics and life work. In so doing, it focuses on Césaire's commitment to the method of poetics articulated through the project and politics of négritude. It argues that Césaire's interventions should be treated as part and parcel of the set of cultural practices gathered under the rubric of “creolization” and that his concern is to conduct a “Creole line of escape” from the hegemony of modern cultures of power. The essay teases out the mode of opening that Césaire sought after in “dwelling with power” and eschews a premature closure on his négritude. Certainly, the problem of blackness is implicated in the undoing of the sets of contradictions embedded in our contemporary historical legacy. However, the essay argues that it is the spectral case of “abject blackness” that lies at the heart of Césaire's critique. Given the peculiarity of the conditions sustaining this experience of “being-black-in-the-world,” the essay interprets Césaire's poiesis through an analysis of the aesthetic and aesthetic judgment and within a class of performances called liminal acts.
The authors in this volume review Carnival’s performative aspect then not merely as a calendrical festival, but rather center attention on the relationship between carnival and everyday life, and on how people negotiate their social spaces and possibilities in the context of modern power. The book therefore seeks to highlight the knotted time-spaces of power and to demonstrate the dynamic interplay between state spaces and people’s spaces that are being weaved by carnival's interlocutors.
When focusing on Carnival the contributors ferret out its complex and even contradictory meanings in relation to aspects of social life, offering understandings that range from a recycling of tradition to that which encompasses the desire for difference and change. This address to the event, the place and people and the general engagement with non carnival and carnivalesque cultural practices reinforces attention to intrinsic connectivities oftentimes lost in studies of Carnival proper. Critiquing tightly drawn notions of resistance and fantasy, by analyzing ludic performances in the United States, Europe, the Caribbean, Latin America. All of the contributors speak engagingly and sensitively about these dynamic sociocultural practices engendering the relationship between the temporalities of Carnival and non-Carnival, and seek to account for their symbiotic connections.
In this way, Carnival and the Carnivalesque become analytic optics through which the relations of power in the social and political life of subjects who seek to tacitically or strategically vary their given identities, can be productively engaged.
Papers by Michaeline A Crichlow
http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6616-race-and-rurality-in-the-global.aspx
Patricia M. Northover and Michaeline A. Crichlow
Abstract
This essay advances an “interpretive analytic” to analyze the character of the politics and strategic intent in Aimé Césaire's poetics and life work. In so doing, it focuses on Césaire's commitment to the method of poetics articulated through the project and politics of négritude. It argues that Césaire's interventions should be treated as part and parcel of the set of cultural practices gathered under the rubric of “creolization” and that his concern is to conduct a “Creole line of escape” from the hegemony of modern cultures of power. The essay teases out the mode of opening that Césaire sought after in “dwelling with power” and eschews a premature closure on his négritude. Certainly, the problem of blackness is implicated in the undoing of the sets of contradictions embedded in our contemporary historical legacy. However, the essay argues that it is the spectral case of “abject blackness” that lies at the heart of Césaire's critique. Given the peculiarity of the conditions sustaining this experience of “being-black-in-the-world,” the essay interprets Césaire's poiesis through an analysis of the aesthetic and aesthetic judgment and within a class of performances called liminal acts.
The authors in this volume review Carnival’s performative aspect then not merely as a calendrical festival, but rather center attention on the relationship between carnival and everyday life, and on how people negotiate their social spaces and possibilities in the context of modern power. The book therefore seeks to highlight the knotted time-spaces of power and to demonstrate the dynamic interplay between state spaces and people’s spaces that are being weaved by carnival's interlocutors.
When focusing on Carnival the contributors ferret out its complex and even contradictory meanings in relation to aspects of social life, offering understandings that range from a recycling of tradition to that which encompasses the desire for difference and change. This address to the event, the place and people and the general engagement with non carnival and carnivalesque cultural practices reinforces attention to intrinsic connectivities oftentimes lost in studies of Carnival proper. Critiquing tightly drawn notions of resistance and fantasy, by analyzing ludic performances in the United States, Europe, the Caribbean, Latin America. All of the contributors speak engagingly and sensitively about these dynamic sociocultural practices engendering the relationship between the temporalities of Carnival and non-Carnival, and seek to account for their symbiotic connections.
In this way, Carnival and the Carnivalesque become analytic optics through which the relations of power in the social and political life of subjects who seek to tacitically or strategically vary their given identities, can be productively engaged.