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The Institute (SALISES) is a research and graduate teaching entity located within the University’s School of Graduate Studies and Research. It focuses on social, economic and political issues and hence is aligned to the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University (UWI).
At the Institute, my research explores the nature of racial power and its legacy in projects of development. I am interested in the philosophy of race, freedom and development, and examine the Caribbean postcolonial condition with special attention to its cultures of power, social change processes and rural development dilemmas. Given this, I am also interested in advancing Africana critical theories on the politics of change - with special attention to thinking reparation through decoloniality as praxis and poethics.
I have developed critical and aesthetic strategies for 'Recycling Sweetness and Power' in the Caribbean Postcolony that are alligned with the quest for reparatory justice through two film projects. In particular, I have co-produced two film series on the sugar industry in Jamaica.
- Sugar Cane: Recycling Sweetness and Power in Modern Jamaica (2018); a four-part adult documentary series
- Ms. Sugga (2018); a four-part Children’s Television Animation series
- Race, Space, Place: The Making and Unmaking of Freedom in the Atlantic and Beyond (Duke University, USA). I am a founding member of this US-based academic collective and decolonial justice project
- Sustainable Rural and Agricultural Development (SRAD). I am the Chair of this UWI-SALISES Research cluster that addresses globalization, climate change and agrarian futures in the plantationocene (SALISES, UWI, Mona, Jamaica)
- Global Partnership Network - SDG17. I am a co-investigator in global network for transforming global relationality and knowledge power dynamics (University of Kassel, Germany)
- State of the African Diaspora (SOAD) - 6th Region. I am a partner in a project for addressing Afro-descendant seed savers displacement and marginalization
- Glasgow Caribbean Center for Development Research-UWI. I am an academic partner in multidisciplinary research network examining hyptertension and food insecurity
- Center for Reparations Research-UWI. I am an academic supporter of the mission of UWI's Center for Reparation Research led by Prof Verene Shepherd
Principal actions:
- Research on Nature of Racial Power and Development projects
- Caribbean Postcolonial; Theory and Politics of Change-Decoloniality as praxis and poethics
- Recycling Sweetness and Power in the Caribbean Postcolony
Michaeline Crichlow and Patricia Northover, Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation (Duke University Press, 2009)
Michaeline Crichlow, Patricia Northover and Juan Giuisti-Cordero (editors), Race and Rurality in the Global Economy (SUNY Press, 2018)
Patricia Northover, 'Abject Blackness, Hauntologies of Development and the Demand for Authenticity: A Critique of Sen's "Development as Freedom",' Global South, 6 (2012)