Colonial Scholars and Anti-Colonial Agents: Politics of Academic Knowledge Production Between the West Indies and London in the Mid-20th Century

0 ANTHROPOLOGY Sociology Lens Pub Date : 2023-03-25 DOI:10.1111/johs.12417
Meta Cramer
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This paper analyses the socio-spatial entanglement of West Indian anti-colonial knowledge production in the mid-20th century existing between London and the Caribbean. This is interpreted as a case of the paradoxical politics of academic knowledge production in that British imperial policies that were constraining knowledge production in the West Indies were also seen as facilitating anti-colonial awareness and work in London by West Indian actors. Research demonstrating the importance of the metropole as a meeting place for global anti-colonial actors is complemented by shifting the focus to the entangled space between London and the West Indies. This article comparatively analyses the academic politics of the British Colonial Office – a spatial dislocation of knowledge production away from the West Indies – and its perception and challenge by Caribbean intellectuals who were temporarily based in London. The analysis builds on contributions by C.L.R. James and S. Wynter and their reflections on the institutionalisation of research in the West Indies and their experiences in London. Overall, I emphasise a relational and symmetrising analysis of knowledge production in imperial contexts that accounts for the entanglement of imperial politics in the metropole and the colonies, and the perception and potential use of these political entanglements by actors in and from colonial contexts.

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殖民学者与反殖民代理人:20世纪中期西印度群岛与伦敦学术知识生产的政治
本文分析了20世纪中期存在于伦敦和加勒比海之间的西印度反殖民知识生产的社会空间纠缠。这被解释为学术知识生产的矛盾政治,因为限制西印度群岛知识生产的英国帝国政策也被视为促进了西印度群岛行为者在伦敦的反殖民意识和工作。研究证明了大都市作为全球反殖民行为者聚会场所的重要性,并将重点转移到伦敦和西印度群岛之间的纠缠空间。本文比较分析了英国殖民地办事处的学术政治——一种远离西印度群岛的知识生产的空间错位——以及临时驻扎在伦敦的加勒比知识分子对其的看法和挑战。该分析基于C.L.R.James和S.Wynter的贡献,以及他们对西印度群岛研究制度化的思考和他们在伦敦的经历。总的来说,我强调对帝国背景下知识生产的关系和对称性分析,解释了大都市和殖民地的帝国政治纠缠,以及殖民地背景下和殖民地背景中的行为者对这些政治纠缠的感知和潜在使用。
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