Category: Capitalism - Dylan Kerrigan

Abolition and the Colonial Amnesia of Caribbean Prison Systems

25/8/2020

The need for alternatives to prisons and prison reform in the Caribbean is long past due

UK Universities, Decolonisation and the Future of Sociology

4/3/2020

What is meant by the decolonisation of academic life? Why might it be of importance to contemporary British sociology? How might decolonisation proceed, and what might our sociological imaginations suggest are some of the obstacles it faces along the way?

Money Trees

20/12/2015

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

The Sociological Imagination

8/11/2015

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

The Price of Freedom

26/7/2015

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

Manufacturing consent

14/6/2015

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

The Cult of Oprah

3/5/2015

The depoliticisation of the individual and how Oprah symbolises a dumbing down of what social change really requires...

The Happiness Scam

15/3/2015

The happiness industry, positive psychology and dead-end jobs. How happiness became a scam to hide social inequality and a global economy on a road to destruction

A New Politics of Distribution

1/3/2015

What is a Basic Income Grant and what might it mean for Trinidad and Tobago...

OJT=UWI’s Cepep

1/2/2015

The phenomenon of "Bullshit Jobs" in Trinidad...

Santa’s Capitalist Alchemy

21/12/2014

The anthropology and myth-making of Santa...

Bobol: Then and Now

6/7/2014

What might we say or add about the emergence of "bobol" (corruption) in the Caribbean?

Knowledge to Empower?

8/6/2014

The positives and negatives of Knowledge.tt

Ending the Drugs Wars

11/5/2014

Why we need to end the War on Drugs...

Columbus was not a Venture Capitalist

27/4/2014

The cultural logic of Trinidad and Tobago's Central Bank Governor

Prejudice against the poor

8/7/2013

Poverty and the many wider socio-cultural issues, like crime, that it impacts, exist (and always will) because of the type of society we’ve all built, not because of the failure of individuals to personally overcome poverty.

Tobago love

15/4/2013

Urban crime in rural tobago