Category: Politics - Dylan Kerrigan

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

Privilege, Empathy And Politics

18/1/2015

According to anthropologist Barbara King, one alternative to the 2014 Merriam-Webster Dictionary word of the year “culture” is “privilege.” For the political anthropologist, Prof King’s selection is a good one because of the way systematic bias for some groups over others burst into mainstream conversation in 2014

Cultures of Dependency

23/11/2014

fundamental social change is hard to achieve because cultures of dependency are deeply entrenched in the local political culture.

The Return of the Colonial

31/8/2014

What logic connects Ferguson, Gaza and east Port of Spain?

Bobol: Then and Now

6/7/2014

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

Ending the Drugs Wars

11/5/2014

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

Miss Miles and Whistle-Blowing Today

16/3/2014

What whistle blowing tells us about power...

The more things change

10/11/2013

Power in the past and power in the present look a lot alike

Politics, Politicians and the Political

13/10/2013

What does it take to be a politician and what do they actually do?

Gifts and Bribes

15/9/2013

In a recent Op-Ed in the Washington Post, an anthropologist asked, “What is the difference between a gift and a bribe?”

Making the invisible visible

12/8/2013

Transparency in Papua New Guinea and transparency at home have a lot in common

Time to face the facts

10/6/2013

Corruption as an economic crime and what are some counter measures

The ritual of no confidence

27/5/2013

Understanding the recent vote of no confidence in T&T parliament as a form of "degradation ritual".

Be an active citizen

18/3/2013

How to become more political active as a citizen.

The tactics of dispossession

11/3/2013

Propaganda and myths of the powerful

Imagined communities and the national census

25/2/2013

What does the recent census tell us about Trinidad and Tobago

Political jiu-jitsu?

3/12/2012

An Anthropology of the Hunger Strike.

Friend or enemy?

22/10/2012

The binary of modern political contests

Jesus or St Francis of Assisi?

15/10/2012

The political sociology of what types of people become politicians and why?