Reminder
*Socialism in the English-speaking Caribbean*
Call for Papers
Organised workers’ movements first appeared as a significant social
force in the British Caribbean Region Colonies before the Second World
War. Anticolonial movements began to gather momentum in the region
around the same time. Socialists and socialist ideas played a
significant part in both movements, particularly as they developed and
began to see political success in the post-war era. For the most part,
these Caribbean socialisms developed organically within their
societies, and both their organisational forms and their political
ideas often defied the neat categorisations familiar from European
socialism: revolutionary or reformist, communist or social-democratic
and so on.
To explore the commonalities and differences among the socialisms of
the English-speaking Caribbean, their origins, development and
achievements, The Socialist History Society, The Institute of
Commonwealth Studies and The Society for Caribbean Studies will be
holding a series of online research seminars with a view to publishing
selected papers from the seminars in the journal Socialist History.
We are inviting researchers on the history of Caribbean socialist,
labour and anticolonial movements to submit proposals for papers on
any aspects of this history. Topics of interest may include, but are
not limited to:
• The early influence and impact of socialist ideas in the region
in the nineteenth century
• The relationship of early Caribbean socialists with socialists
in Britain, the US and elsewhere
• The impact of the Russian Revolution and the Communist International
• Garveyism, anticolonialism and socialism
• The Labour Rebellions of the inter-war period
• Women and Caribbean socialism
• The Cold War and anti-communism
• The Caribbean New Left and Black Power movements
• The Grenada Revolution and its legacy
• Leaders and thinkers of Caribbean socialism
• Race, ethnicity and socialist movements
• Religion and socialist politics
We are seeking papers of 5,000 to 10,000 words to be presented at the
seminars. Presentations themselves will be expected to last no more
than 20 minutes.
Please submit proposals of no more than 500 words to the organisers
Steve Cushion, Christian Høgsbjerg and Michael Mahadeo on
[log in to unmask] by 15th November 2021. Accepted
proposals will be presented at one or more online evening seminars in
the early part of next year (dates to be agreed).
Authors of those papers selected for publication will be invited to
revise them for a special issue of Socialist History.
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Steve Cushion
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