Roshini Kempadoo
Biographic Data
| ID | 1546581 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roshini Kempadoo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roshini |
| FAMILY NAME | Kempadoo |
| SIGNATURE | KEMPADOO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0878-1916 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Provoking Us to Change the World
From the series Like Gold Dust, 2019. (ROSHINI KEMPADOO)In July 2023, Guyanese women of the multiracial grassroots organization Red Thread performed a script on the streets of Georgetown. “Water is
Guyana’s Oil Dorado
At the end of 2022, three years after oil production began in Guyana’s offshore waters, ExxonMobil posted the highest profits in its 152-year history. Events in the country’s bourgeoning oil indust
After Indenture
A photographic portfolio published as a special section “Art After Indenture,” in which five scholars characterize and respond to eight contemporary visual artists who are descendants of indentured workers. The author Andil Gosine as guest editor also raises questions about the commemoration of indentureship and calls for greater contention with its traumatic legacy.\n\nAbstract and introduction to photo stories:\n\nFace Up: Life and transgressiv…
Creole in the Archive
The image of the Caribbean figure has been reconfigured by photography from the mid-19th century onwards. Initial images associated with the slave and indentured worker from the locations and legacies associated with plantation economies have been usurped by visual representations emerging from struggles for social, political and cultural autonomy. Contemporary visual artists engaging with the Caribbean as a 21st century globalised space have foc…
Timings, Canon, and Art History
This essay is a contribution to the book discussion of Timed Out: Art and the Transnational Caribbean (2011) by Leon Wainwright. Kempadoo offers an exploration and commentary on the way Wainwright's publication has been structured and conceived, exploring the rationale for the range of artists as the subjects of the book. She discusses "timing" and temporality as the central narrative for Wainwright in researching Caribbean art as transnational a…
Gazing Outward and Looking Back
Recent political agitations across countries, including those in Southern Europe, the Middle East, South America, and North and Middle Africa, are further problematized by the perceived failure of “state multiculturalism” in Europe. European citizens of different cultures—such as the racialized “black” diasporic figure of African, Middle Eastern, Asian, South American, and Caribbean descent, now a significant urban population in Europe—are feelin…
Creating notebooks, photographs and interventions
The article explores the way in which African, Caribbean and Arabic European presence is visualized by diasporic women artists. With histories associated with recent migration to Europe by persons from non-European, Southern backgrounds, perceptual practice is presented as partial and feminist. The article makes explicit the perceptions, perspectives and viewpoints we are positioned by as persons associated with the postcolonies making claims of …
Amendments
Artist project
Amendments
This article introduces a conceptual framework for the historical materials and significant historical locations that constitute the Trinidad archive. It considers archives as sites for continuous re-interpretation and analysis. This is achieved by examining two tendencies inherent in Trinidad archival practices: the conservation of historical material consisting of colonial documents and plantation locations, in addition to post-independent hist…
Imaging historical traces
Ghosting' (in)Visibility and Absence of Racialized Caribbean Landscapes
Imaging historical traces
Research Article| March 01 2004 Imaging historical traces: Virtual Exiles project [2000]: [http://www.mediascot.org/exiles/ve/index.html] Roshini Kempadoo Roshini Kempadoo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 235–241. https://doi.org/10.1215/-8-1-235 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools…
Future Belonging — a case study in practice-based research
This paper outlines some of the inherent tensions and challenges posed for a practice based academic working with digital media and contributing to the research profile in a Cultural Studies subject area of the academy
Gazing Outward and Looking Back
Recent political agitations across countries, including those in Southern Europe, the Middle East, South America, and North and Middle Africa, are further problematized by the perceived failure of “state multiculturalism” in Europe. European citizens of different cultures—such as the racialized “black” diasporic figure of African, Middle Eastern, Asian, South American, and Caribbean descent, now a significant urban population in Europe—are feelin…
Creole in the Archive
The image of the Caribbean figure has been reconfigured by photography from the mid-19th century onwards. Initial images associated with the slave and indentured worker from the locations and legacies associated with plantation economies have been usurped by visual representations emerging from struggles for social, political and cultural autonomy. Contemporary visual artists engaging with the Caribbean as a 21st century globalised space have foc…
Future Belonging — a case study in practice-based research
This paper outlines some of the inherent tensions and challenges posed for a practice based academic working with digital media and contributing to the research profile in a Cultural Studies subject area of the academy
Imaging historical traces
Ghosting' (in)Visibility and Absence of Racialized Caribbean Landscapes
Imaging historical traces
Research Article| March 01 2004 Imaging historical traces: Virtual Exiles project [2000]: [http://www.mediascot.org/exiles/ve/index.html] Roshini Kempadoo Roshini Kempadoo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 235–241. https://doi.org/10.1215/-8-1-235 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools…
Amendments
This article introduces a conceptual framework for the historical materials and significant historical locations that constitute the Trinidad archive. It considers archives as sites for continuous re-interpretation and analysis. This is achieved by examining two tendencies inherent in Trinidad archival practices: the conservation of historical material consisting of colonial documents and plantation locations, in addition to post-independent hist…
Amendments
Artist project
Creating notebooks, photographs and interventions
The article explores the way in which African, Caribbean and Arabic European presence is visualized by diasporic women artists. With histories associated with recent migration to Europe by persons from non-European, Southern backgrounds, perceptual practice is presented as partial and feminist. The article makes explicit the perceptions, perspectives and viewpoints we are positioned by as persons associated with the postcolonies making claims of …
Gazing Outward and Looking Back
Recent political agitations across countries, including those in Southern Europe, the Middle East, South America, and North and Middle Africa, are further problematized by the perceived failure of “state multiculturalism” in Europe. European citizens of different cultures—such as the racialized “black” diasporic figure of African, Middle Eastern, Asian, South American, and Caribbean descent, now a significant urban population in Europe—are feelin…
Timings, Canon, and Art History
This essay is a contribution to the book discussion of Timed Out: Art and the Transnational Caribbean (2011) by Leon Wainwright. Kempadoo offers an exploration and commentary on the way Wainwright's publication has been structured and conceived, exploring the rationale for the range of artists as the subjects of the book. She discusses "timing" and temporality as the central narrative for Wainwright in researching Caribbean art as transnational a…
Creole in the Archive
The image of the Caribbean figure has been reconfigured by photography from the mid-19th century onwards. Initial images associated with the slave and indentured worker from the locations and legacies associated with plantation economies have been usurped by visual representations emerging from struggles for social, political and cultural autonomy. Contemporary visual artists engaging with the Caribbean as a 21st century globalised space have foc…
After Indenture
A photographic portfolio published as a special section “Art After Indenture,” in which five scholars characterize and respond to eight contemporary visual artists who are descendants of indentured workers. The author Andil Gosine as guest editor also raises questions about the commemoration of indentureship and calls for greater contention with its traumatic legacy.\n\nAbstract and introduction to photo stories:\n\nFace Up: Life and transgressiv…
Provoking Us to Change the World
From the series Like Gold Dust, 2019. (ROSHINI KEMPADOO)In July 2023, Guyanese women of the multiracial grassroots organization Red Thread performed a script on the streets of Georgetown. “Water is
Guyana’s Oil Dorado
At the end of 2022, three years after oil production began in Guyana’s offshore waters, ExxonMobil posted the highest profits in its 152-year history. Events in the country’s bourgeoning oil indust
Art (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Visual arts (6 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (5 works) · History (5 works) · History (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)