Dylan Kerrigan - Opeds

The Socio-Cultural Problem with Sandals

5/11/2017

Why doesn’t the PM speak and listen to sociologists as much as he does economists?

The Financialisation of Academic Knowledge Production

5/10/2016

In this column for a series on academic freedom at sage social science space I looked at the financialisation of the academic book publishing industry and asked questions about changes in the production cycle and ethos of academic publishing in the 21st century. What does the emergence of a franchise system within academic publishing suggest has happened to the traditional purpose of academic knowledge production, academic disciplines and academic authors themselves?

There is also a webinar on academic freedom with Joanna Williams, Daniel Nehring and me that you can listen to here

Biting the hand that feeds

17/1/2016

Misogyny at the Trinidad Guardian...

Anthropologist in the Cane

3/1/2016

A great of Caribbean anthropology, Professor Sidney Mintz has passed away...

Money Trees

20/12/2015

We all know money grows on trees so why should we change...

Who to blame?

6/12/2015

Anthropology and trying to understand the explanations people assumer when unexpected events occur...

Learning About Police Culture

22/11/2015

how might the police and anthropologists collaborate?

The Sociological Imagination

8/11/2015

How and why the psychological view has come to trump the sociological imagination...

My Home is my Castle

25/10/2015

Anthropology and architecture through the eyes of PhD Candidate Leniqueca Welcome

Denialism and Anti-History

11/10/2015

Why David Cameron is simply wrong about the past...

Culture and Power

27/9/2015

Culture shapes how we see the world, are we reading culture critically enough?

Racism and the Politics of Culture

13/9/2015

How top-down misleading definitions of culture and multiculturalism contribute to racism in T&T...

Fixing Democracy

30/8/2015

Looking at Lessing's movement for political reforms in the US how might such ideas translate to electoral reforms in T&T

Chasing their tails

16/8/2015

Unpacking a local cultural meme on political corruption

The Price of Freedom

26/7/2015

What do the end of slavery and the European financial crisis have in common?

Sharing the Road

12/7/2015

Comparison between riding culture in Holland and T&T

When White Privilege Goes Wrong

28/6/2015

What is white privilege and how does it operate...

Manufacturing consent

14/6/2015

Examples how many of us are complicit in our subordination and domination by neoliberal power...

Caribbean military encounters

31/5/2015

How the relationship between the Caribbean and foreign military forces in the 20th century had many different incarnations and forms, and left lasting legacies...

A Ritual of Power

17/5/2015

The recent #Caribbeanfutureforum silenced a large volume of voices. Here's how and why