*Caribbean Women’s Fugitive Negotiations and Post-Diasporic Mobilities*
 Jan 17, 2018 5:30 PM
 UCL Institute of the Americas, 51 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PN
*Denise Noble*

This paper presents current research associated with my involvement in the AHRC-funded Network entitled African-Caribbean Women’s Mobility and Self Fashioning in Post-Diaspora Contexts. Drawing on Carole Boyce-Davies’s concepts of Black women’s migratory subjectivities and Black feminist theories of gendered forms of fugitivity, this research explores how British-born African Caribbean women have used various practices of travel and mobility to experience and sustain more desirable forms of selfhood. Approaching these as forms of gendered fugitivity, I consider how these are used to negotiate the forces that constrain, determine, or enable their multiple and often discrepant freedoms. This work focuses on Caribbean women’s geographic travel and migrations from the UK to other countries, as well as their discursive migrations across hegemonic categories and boundaries. Mapping and analysing these diverse mobilities begins to reveal the negotiations with fugitivity, futurity and freedom that such practices enact and their implications for understanding the changing lived poetics of diaspora. This paper will share some of the findings emerging from an individual case study of a Black British woman of Caribbean descent who has engaged in multiple outward migrations from and returns to the UK.

Denise Noble is Senior Lecturer of Sociology at the School of Social Sciences, Birmingham City University. Her research interests include race and racism in the UK; the Caribbean diaspora; the intersections of place, race, gender, class and sexuality in the cultural politics of the African diaspora; postcolonial media practices; and post-coloniality / decoloniality / modernity. In addition to her academic career Denise has extensive experience of community activism and community work, and is an experienced professional and personal development consultant, specialising in equality and diversity in further and higher education, as well as coaching and mentoring.

Attendance to this event is free of charge but registration is required. 


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