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Meta Cramer Mar 29, 2023

Happy to share that my article on the interrelation of Caribbean intellectuals' work in London and the institutionalisation of research and higher education in the West Indies in the mid-20th century has been published (open access) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/johs.12417

The article brings together the fascinating #intellectualhistory of #Caribbean social thought and the institutional history of colonial science policies and interprets the case as one of paradoxical politics of academic knowledge production.

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Meta Cramer

In a comparative analysis of contributions by the colonial office and #CLRJames & #Wynter, I show that British imperial policies that were constraining knowledge production in the West Indies were seen as facilitating anti‐colonial awareness & work in London by Caribbean actors.
Overall, the article tries to analyse epistemic and material factors - intellectual & institutional history - together and explore their interrelation.