Dear colleagues,
See below.
All the best,
Pat
Dr Patricia Noxolo,
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston,
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK
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Subject: UCL Seminar - Political Socialities: Affect and Everyday Activism in Hell Yard, Trinidad
*Political Socialities: Affect and Everyday Activism in Hell Yard, Trinidad*
Maarit Forde
5:30 pm to 8:00 pm, 5th June 2019
Institute of the Americas, 51 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PN
Book now ->
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/political-socialities-affect-and-everyday-activism-in-hell-yard-trinidad-tickets-60183085228
[admission is free, but advance booking is required, thank you]
What does political life look like when it is not read in the context of
collectives like parties, unions, movements, NGOs, or the trope of
resistance? Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in the Beetham, an
impoverished neighbourhood in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, this
paper approaches the politics of the urban poor by looking into everyday
acts, gestures and discussions aimed at community-building and
eventually, social justice. Activists in the Beetham thought about their
futures and worked toward their objectives within sets of fluid,
malleable and varied social relations to family, friends, neighbours,
politicians, gang leaders and strongmen, saints, deities and spirits.
These socialities, rather than pre-existing and fixed collectives based
on a common identity or cause, were the primary context for acting and
thinking politically. Investigating the development of political
subjects in socialities of differently situated people and spirits, I
pay attention to culturally meaningful forms of love experienced and
expressed within such relations. The paper explores three activists???
affective socialities as sources of a temporal orientation, sense of
self, social skills and emotional intelligence crucial to the activists???
political work in the Beetham. They worked towards ???bringing people
together,??? for example by creating safe spaces for discussion, with the
long-term objective of building a community. Unlike the fluid and
heterogenous socialities that fostered activists??? work, the community
they sought to build was a temporally and spatially located collective
with shared experiences of structural violence and oppression, and
possibly shared visions for a different future.
About the Speaker
*Maarit Forde* is a senior lecturer in cultural studies and the head of
the Department of Literary, Cultural and Communication Studies at the
University of the West Indies in St. Augustine. Her research and
teaching have focused on the anthropology of religion and political
anthropology particularly in the Caribbean and its diaspora. In recent
publications, she has looked into the government and politics of
religion and healing in the colonial Caribbean; death and mortuary
rituals; and the civic engagement of the urban poor. Passages and
Afterworlds: Anthropological Perspectives on Death in the Caribbean was
published last year by Duke University Press. Maarit is currently on
sabbatical leave and visiting the University of Tampere in Finland,
working on a book manuscript on subject formation and political activism
in urban Trinidad.
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