Mary Chamberlain
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 331533 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mary Chamberlain |
| NOMBRES | Mary |
| APELLIDO | Chamberlain |
| FIRMA | CHAMBERLAIN M |
| AFILIACIONES | Oxford Brookes University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 154 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1893 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Carmen Callil (1938-2022)
This essay is a personal appreciation of Carmen Callil, the founder of Virago, who died in October 2022. She was a witty but formidable woman with a passion for literature who sought to change the world through books. Virago’s early precarious finances were redeemed by the Modern Classics series, with their distinctive livery and guarantee of good literature, satisfying an appetite for knowledge and literature in an untapped audience. Alongside f…
Britain's Brown Babies
‘That’s my dad. I know who I am and it just wipes out all the pain. All the emptiness and all the sadness. Full circle, just peace and joy...’1 Monica was one of the forty-five people interviewed by Lucy Bland in her study of Britain’s ‘brown babies’.2 Born to white British women during the Second World War, and fathered by African-American GIs stationed in the United Kingdom, estimates of the total number of such babies vary from between 1,800 a…
West Indian intellectuals in Britain
Established in the belief that imperialism as a cultural phenomenon had as significant an effect on the dominant as on the subordinate societies, Studies in Imperialism seeks to develop the new socio-cultural approach which has emerged through cross-disciplinary work on popular culture, media studies, art history, the study of education and religion, sports history and children's literature.The cultural emphasis embraces studies of migration and …
Narrative & Genre
Memories of Mass Repression
Narratives of Exile and Return
In this original and compelling book, Mary Chamberlain explores the nature and meaning of migration for Barbadians who migrated to Britain and elsewhere. It is a unique oral and social history, based on life-story interviews across three or more generations of Barbadian families. Locating migration within the contemporary debate on modernity, Narratives of Exile and Return highlights the continuing role of migration in shaping the culture and his…
Ordering Independence
The ANC's London Recruits
Journal Article The ANC’s London Recruits: a Personal Story Get access Mary Chamberlain Mary Chamberlain Oxford Brookes University Mary Chamberlain is Emeritus Professor of Caribbean History at Oxford Brookes University. She is the author of Fenwomen (1975, 1983, 2011); Old Wives’ Tales (1981, 2004); Growing Up In Lambeth (1989); Narratives of Exile and Return (1997; 2004); Family Love in the Diaspora: Migration and the Anglo-Caribbean Experience…
Transregional and Transnational Families in Europe and Beyond
The Children of Africa in the Colonies
The Children of Africa in the Colonies Melanie J. Newton Louisiana, Louisiana State University Press, 2008 xii + 322 pp., ISBN: 978-0-8071-3326-2 ($42.50 hardback) In 1998, the Government of Barbad
Empire and Nation-Building in the Caribbean
This book examines the processes of nation building in the British West Indies. It argues that nation building was a complex and messy affair, involving women and men in a range of social and cultural activities, in a variety of migratory settings, within a unique geo-political context. Taking as a case study Barbados, which, in the 1930s, was the most economically impoverished, racially divided, socially disadvantaged and politically conservativ…
Diasporic Memories
Can we talk of a collective, diasporic memory? I will argue that in the case of the African-Caribbean community, there are distinctive features -- such as the need to "tell" and the need to "connect" -- which suggests that this diasporic memory is framed through identifiable cultural templates, which distinguish it from the memories of migrants.
Migrant Myths and Memories
Migrant Myths and Memories Gemma Romain, Connecting Histories: a Comparative Exploration of African-Caribbean and Jewish History and Memory in Modern Britain, Kegan Paul, 2006; pp. viii + 273, £75 (hbk); ISBN 100710312237. Karen Fog Olwig, Caribbean Journeys: an Ethnography of Migration and Home in Three Family Networks, Duke University Press, 2007; pp. ix + 319, £12.99 (pbk), £51 (hbk); ISBN 9780822339946. Elaine Bauer and Paul Thompson, Jamaica…
"On "big five and little five
Elsa Goveia
In a society which has been shot through by diverse inter-racial features and inter-continental thresholds, we need a philosophy of history which is original to us and yet capable of universal applications. Caribbean man is involved in a civilisation-making process (whether he likes it or not) and until this creative authority becomes intimate to his perspectives, he will continue to find himself embalmed in his deprivations – embalmed as a deriv…
Transnational Families
This introduction to a special issue of the journal explores not only the role of memory and narratives in understanding gender and transnational families, but suggests how such families use and understand their memories to construct coherent narratives of the self and kin. In common with renewed thinking about the multifaceted nature of migration, the complexities of the process, and the continuing dialogue that migration establishes between the…
Rethinking Caribbean families
Despite the prevalence in the literature on matrifocality and mother centredness in Caribbean families, there is very little focus on the role of grandmothers (and grandfathers), except in their role as surrogate parents, and as a characteristic of lower-class families. This article argues that the importance of grandparents (and grandmothers in particular) and of elderly aunts (often childless) in family life crosses class and geographic boundar…
Qualitative Interviewing
Caribbean Migration
Small Worlds
There are no historical studies and-despite the concern of social sciences with Caribbean families-few scholarly works that have focused on childhood and child rearing. Yet attitudes to children, child care, and child rearing reveal many of the values and philosophies that underpin social organization and may be seen as a litmus test of (formal and informal) social provision. This article examines the narratives of Caribbean colonial childhoods, …
Praise Songs' of the Family
Life stories reveal rich empirical data. They also reveal the imaginative structures which organize memory, recall and recount. These structures are shaped by culture and can indicate the underlying values and principles of social life. They are, however, also narratives and, as such, may conform to genre(s). Based on life story narratives from the research project on living arrangements, family structure and social change of Caribbeans in Britai…
The family as model and metaphor in Caribbean migration to Britain
Until recently Caribbean migration has largely been viewed as a movement of labour, an approach which tended to exclude or marginalise the importance of historical, cultural and social influences in migration and settlement. This article is based on research conducted by Harry Goulbourne and Mary Chamberlain and financed by the ESRC on the evolution of Caribbean families in Britain. It explores the role of the family in Caribbean migration, and t…
Gender and the Narratives of Migration
Journal Article Gender and the Narratives of Migration Get access Mary Chamberlain Mary Chamberlain Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 43, Issue 1, SPRING 1997, Pages 87–110, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/1997.43.87 Published: 01 January 1997
Gender and Memory
Precisely because memory is malleable, is susceptible to confusion and conflation, to lapses and lying, to suggestion and sensation, and always to the role of the imagination, oral sources have been dismissed by many traditional historians as untrustworthy, or relegated to the periphery of historical enquiry. 'For some areas of historical study,' Arthur Marwick reluctantly conceded in the 1989 edition of his student primer, The Nature of History,…
Family narratives and migration dynamics
Uses life-story interviews of Barbadian migrant families in both Barbados and the UK to study the family as the tool and the material which creates and shapes historical mentalities and identities. The author shows how the links between family and migration continue to play a role in the motivation of migrants. Also published in Immigrants & Minorities 14(2) 1995, p. 153-169
Transnational Families
This introduction to a special issue of the journal explores not only the role of memory and narratives in understanding gender and transnational families, but suggests how such families use and understand their memories to construct coherent narratives of the self and kin. In common with renewed thinking about the multifaceted nature of migration, the complexities of the process, and the continuing dialogue that migration establishes between the…
The family as model and metaphor in Caribbean migration to Britain
Until recently Caribbean migration has largely been viewed as a movement of labour, an approach which tended to exclude or marginalise the importance of historical, cultural and social influences in migration and settlement. This article is based on research conducted by Harry Goulbourne and Mary Chamberlain and financed by the ESRC on the evolution of Caribbean families in Britain. It explores the role of the family in Caribbean migration, and t…
Rethinking Caribbean families
Despite the prevalence in the literature on matrifocality and mother centredness in Caribbean families, there is very little focus on the role of grandmothers (and grandfathers), except in their role as surrogate parents, and as a characteristic of lower-class families. This article argues that the importance of grandparents (and grandmothers in particular) and of elderly aunts (often childless) in family life crosses class and geographic boundar…
Family narratives and migration dynamics
Uses life-story interviews of Barbadian migrant families in both Barbados and the UK to study the family as the tool and the material which creates and shapes historical mentalities and identities. The author shows how the links between family and migration continue to play a role in the motivation of migrants. Also published in Immigrants & Minorities 14(2) 1995, p. 153-169
Small Worlds
There are no historical studies and-despite the concern of social sciences with Caribbean families-few scholarly works that have focused on childhood and child rearing. Yet attitudes to children, child care, and child rearing reveal many of the values and philosophies that underpin social organization and may be seen as a litmus test of (formal and informal) social provision. This article examines the narratives of Caribbean colonial childhoods, …
Gender and the Narratives of Migration
Journal Article Gender and the Narratives of Migration Get access Mary Chamberlain Mary Chamberlain Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 43, Issue 1, SPRING 1997, Pages 87–110, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/1997.43.87 Published: 01 January 1997
West Indian intellectuals in Britain
Established in the belief that imperialism as a cultural phenomenon had as significant an effect on the dominant as on the subordinate societies, Studies in Imperialism seeks to develop the new socio-cultural approach which has emerged through cross-disciplinary work on popular culture, media studies, art history, the study of education and religion, sports history and children's literature.The cultural emphasis embraces studies of migration and …
Diasporic Memories
Can we talk of a collective, diasporic memory? I will argue that in the case of the African-Caribbean community, there are distinctive features -- such as the need to "tell" and the need to "connect" -- which suggests that this diasporic memory is framed through identifiable cultural templates, which distinguish it from the memories of migrants.
The ANC's London Recruits
Journal Article The ANC’s London Recruits: a Personal Story Get access Mary Chamberlain Mary Chamberlain Oxford Brookes University Mary Chamberlain is Emeritus Professor of Caribbean History at Oxford Brookes University. She is the author of Fenwomen (1975, 1983, 2011); Old Wives’ Tales (1981, 2004); Growing Up In Lambeth (1989); Narratives of Exile and Return (1997; 2004); Family Love in the Diaspora: Migration and the Anglo-Caribbean Experience…
Migrant Myths and Memories
Migrant Myths and Memories Gemma Romain, Connecting Histories: a Comparative Exploration of African-Caribbean and Jewish History and Memory in Modern Britain, Kegan Paul, 2006; pp. viii + 273, £75 (hbk); ISBN 100710312237. Karen Fog Olwig, Caribbean Journeys: an Ethnography of Migration and Home in Three Family Networks, Duke University Press, 2007; pp. ix + 319, £12.99 (pbk), £51 (hbk); ISBN 9780822339946. Elaine Bauer and Paul Thompson, Jamaica…
Praise Songs' of the Family
Life stories reveal rich empirical data. They also reveal the imaginative structures which organize memory, recall and recount. These structures are shaped by culture and can indicate the underlying values and principles of social life. They are, however, also narratives and, as such, may conform to genre(s). Based on life story narratives from the research project on living arrangements, family structure and social change of Caribbeans in Britai…
Alternative Futures for Peace Research
Two years ago, Rapoport (1970) asked peace researchers if their work was applicable. In the March 1971 issue of the Journal of Conflict Resolution Kent replied to Rapoport's query. This paper continues the dialogue established by Rapoport and Kent. Its central questions concern the nature of peace research and researchers, the source of support, and the applicability (usefulness) of the research. Rapoport's perception of the goal of peace researc…
Certain Common Superstitions
Alternative Futures for Peace Research
Two years ago, Rapoport (1970) asked peace researchers if their work was applicable. In the March 1971 issue of the Journal of Conflict Resolution Kent replied to Rapoport's query. This paper continues the dialogue established by Rapoport and Kent. Its central questions concern the nature of peace research and researchers, the source of support, and the applicability (usefulness) of the research. Rapoport's perception of the goal of peace researc…
Old Wives' Tales
Labour and Love
Association of Caribbean Historians 22nd Annual Conference Trinidad, April 1990
Women and Gender in Caribbean History, Mona, Jamaica, November 1993
Gender and Memory
Precisely because memory is malleable, is susceptible to confusion and conflation, to lapses and lying, to suggestion and sensation, and always to the role of the imagination, oral sources have been dismissed by many traditional historians as untrustworthy, or relegated to the periphery of historical enquiry. 'For some areas of historical study,' Arthur Marwick reluctantly conceded in the 1989 edition of his student primer, The Nature of History,…
Family narratives and migration dynamics
Uses life-story interviews of Barbadian migrant families in both Barbados and the UK to study the family as the tool and the material which creates and shapes historical mentalities and identities. The author shows how the links between family and migration continue to play a role in the motivation of migrants. Also published in Immigrants & Minorities 14(2) 1995, p. 153-169
Gender and the Narratives of Migration
Journal Article Gender and the Narratives of Migration Get access Mary Chamberlain Mary Chamberlain Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 43, Issue 1, SPRING 1997, Pages 87–110, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/1997.43.87 Published: 01 January 1997
The family as model and metaphor in Caribbean migration to Britain
Until recently Caribbean migration has largely been viewed as a movement of labour, an approach which tended to exclude or marginalise the importance of historical, cultural and social influences in migration and settlement. This article is based on research conducted by Harry Goulbourne and Mary Chamberlain and financed by the ESRC on the evolution of Caribbean families in Britain. It explores the role of the family in Caribbean migration, and t…
Praise Songs' of the Family
Life stories reveal rich empirical data. They also reveal the imaginative structures which organize memory, recall and recount. These structures are shaped by culture and can indicate the underlying values and principles of social life. They are, however, also narratives and, as such, may conform to genre(s). Based on life story narratives from the research project on living arrangements, family structure and social change of Caribbeans in Britai…
Qualitative Interviewing
Caribbean Migration
Small Worlds
There are no historical studies and-despite the concern of social sciences with Caribbean families-few scholarly works that have focused on childhood and child rearing. Yet attitudes to children, child care, and child rearing reveal many of the values and philosophies that underpin social organization and may be seen as a litmus test of (formal and informal) social provision. This article examines the narratives of Caribbean colonial childhoods, …
Rethinking Caribbean families
Despite the prevalence in the literature on matrifocality and mother centredness in Caribbean families, there is very little focus on the role of grandmothers (and grandfathers), except in their role as surrogate parents, and as a characteristic of lower-class families. This article argues that the importance of grandparents (and grandmothers in particular) and of elderly aunts (often childless) in family life crosses class and geographic boundar…
Elsa Goveia
In a society which has been shot through by diverse inter-racial features and inter-continental thresholds, we need a philosophy of history which is original to us and yet capable of universal applications. Caribbean man is involved in a civilisation-making process (whether he likes it or not) and until this creative authority becomes intimate to his perspectives, he will continue to find himself embalmed in his deprivations – embalmed as a deriv…
Transnational Families
This introduction to a special issue of the journal explores not only the role of memory and narratives in understanding gender and transnational families, but suggests how such families use and understand their memories to construct coherent narratives of the self and kin. In common with renewed thinking about the multifaceted nature of migration, the complexities of the process, and the continuing dialogue that migration establishes between the…
"On "big five and little five
Diasporic Memories
Can we talk of a collective, diasporic memory? I will argue that in the case of the African-Caribbean community, there are distinctive features -- such as the need to "tell" and the need to "connect" -- which suggests that this diasporic memory is framed through identifiable cultural templates, which distinguish it from the memories of migrants.
Migrant Myths and Memories
Migrant Myths and Memories Gemma Romain, Connecting Histories: a Comparative Exploration of African-Caribbean and Jewish History and Memory in Modern Britain, Kegan Paul, 2006; pp. viii + 273, £75 (hbk); ISBN 100710312237. Karen Fog Olwig, Caribbean Journeys: an Ethnography of Migration and Home in Three Family Networks, Duke University Press, 2007; pp. ix + 319, £12.99 (pbk), £51 (hbk); ISBN 9780822339946. Elaine Bauer and Paul Thompson, Jamaica…
Empire and Nation-Building in the Caribbean
This book examines the processes of nation building in the British West Indies. It argues that nation building was a complex and messy affair, involving women and men in a range of social and cultural activities, in a variety of migratory settings, within a unique geo-political context. Taking as a case study Barbados, which, in the 1930s, was the most economically impoverished, racially divided, socially disadvantaged and politically conservativ…
Transregional and Transnational Families in Europe and Beyond
The Children of Africa in the Colonies
The Children of Africa in the Colonies Melanie J. Newton Louisiana, Louisiana State University Press, 2008 xii + 322 pp., ISBN: 978-0-8071-3326-2 ($42.50 hardback) In 1998, the Government of Barbad
The ANC's London Recruits
Journal Article The ANC’s London Recruits: a Personal Story Get access Mary Chamberlain Mary Chamberlain Oxford Brookes University Mary Chamberlain is Emeritus Professor of Caribbean History at Oxford Brookes University. She is the author of Fenwomen (1975, 1983, 2011); Old Wives’ Tales (1981, 2004); Growing Up In Lambeth (1989); Narratives of Exile and Return (1997; 2004); Family Love in the Diaspora: Migration and the Anglo-Caribbean Experience…
Ordering Independence
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