Don Robotham
Biographic Data
| ID | 640964 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Don Robotham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Don |
| FAMILY NAME | Robotham |
| SIGNATURE | ROBOTHAM D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Graduate Center, CUNY |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introduction
Anthropology and the Present Moment
This article, in honor of Antonio Lauria-Perricelli, examines some of the central theoretical issues which the current economic crisis poses for anthropological theory and practice. It points out that the “brute materiality” of the crisis, calls into question culturalist concepts of practice derived from Bourdieu as well as poststructuralist theories which minimize the significance of material macrostructures. It ends by emphasizing the need for …
Neoliberalism and Its Other
Afterword
The essays in this important collection pose the central issues facing the field of economic anthropology today. After the triumph of formalism in the debate with the substantivists, the question became whether any such subfield could continue to exist at all. This collection shows that a theoretically coherent field called economic anthropology is not only possible but vitally necessary and that its revival is underway. What will give this reviv…
Market and Society
Karl Polanyi's 1944 book, The Great Transformation, offered a radical critique of how the market system has affected society and humanity since the industrial revolution. This volume brings together contributions from distinguished scholars in economic anthropology, sociology and political economy to consider Polanyi's theories in the light of circumstances today, when the relationship between market and society has again become a focus of intens…
Culture, Society and Economy
Bringing the Economy Back In Politics as Culture Stuart Hall Gilroy Neither Black nor Atlantic Globalization and Risks Capitalism Organized and Disorganized Network Society Theory 'Localization' Explored Alternatives A Global Approach to Anti-Globalization Conclusion The Noisy Sphere and the Hidden Abode
Cosmopolitanism and Planetary Humanism
Research Article| July 01 2005 Cosmopolitanism and Planetary Humanism: The Strategic Universalism of Paul Gilroy Don Robotham Don Robotham Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2005) 104 (3): 561–582. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-104-3-561 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools…
Martha Brae's Two Histories
Callaloo or Tossed Salad
Callaloo or Tossed Salad: East Indians and the Cultural Politics of Identity in Trinidad. Viranjini Munasinghe. Ithaca, NY, and London, UK: Cornell University Press, 2001. xv+ 315 pp. (Cloth USS45.00; Paper US$19.95)
Black Diversity in New York City
Islands in the City: West Indian Migration to New York. Nancy Foner. ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.312 pp.Trends in Ethnic Identification among Second-Generation Haitian Immigrants to New York City. Flore Zephir. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 2001. 248 pp
Analyzing the Jamaican Crisis
Freedom ossified or economic crisis? A comment on Holger Henke
This article contends with the view that the political crisis in some Anglophone Caribbean countries—primarily Jamaica—can be understood as arising from the black middle‐class leadership's use of race and nationalism to obscure class issues. It argues that the race and national issues were and are legitimate class issues and that it is theoretically and practically a mistake to counterpose the two. The black middle class achieved important victor…
Post-Colonialism and Beyond
Blackening the Jamaican nation
This paper discusses the recent attempt of a black professional stratum in Jamaica to transform itself into a bourgeoisie. It outlines the situation in the Afro‐Caribbean, which is characterized by a black elite controlling political power but a white or brown minority controlling the economy. It shows how the attempt of a rising black elite to obtain economic power was accompanied by a cautious narrative of black nationalism. This attempt is pla…
Transnationalism in the Caribbean
Comparing the effects of transnationalism in Central Europe with its effects in the English-speaking Caribbean reveals the unique features of the Caribbean: it is an area that has for centuries been both rooted in strong African ethnicities and deeply penetrated by global capitalism. This means that while the task of global capitalism in Central Europe is radical rupture, its task in the Caribbean is one of realignment. Complex interrelations bet…
Postcolonialities
Soul Rebels
Transnationalism in the Caribbean
Comparing the effects of transnationalism in Central Europe with its effects in the English-speaking Caribbean reveals the unique features of the Caribbean: it is an area that has for centuries been both rooted in strong African ethnicities and deeply penetrated by global capitalism. This means that while the task of global capitalism in Central Europe is radical rupture, its task in the Caribbean is one of realignment. Complex interrelations bet…
Blackening the Jamaican nation
This paper discusses the recent attempt of a black professional stratum in Jamaica to transform itself into a bourgeoisie. It outlines the situation in the Afro‐Caribbean, which is characterized by a black elite controlling political power but a white or brown minority controlling the economy. It shows how the attempt of a rising black elite to obtain economic power was accompanied by a cautious narrative of black nationalism. This attempt is pla…
Postcolonialities
Black Diversity in New York City
Islands in the City: West Indian Migration to New York. Nancy Foner. ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.312 pp.Trends in Ethnic Identification among Second-Generation Haitian Immigrants to New York City. Flore Zephir. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 2001. 248 pp
Introduction
Cosmopolitanism and Planetary Humanism
Research Article| July 01 2005 Cosmopolitanism and Planetary Humanism: The Strategic Universalism of Paul Gilroy Don Robotham Don Robotham Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2005) 104 (3): 561–582. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-104-3-561 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools…
Freedom ossified or economic crisis? A comment on Holger Henke
This article contends with the view that the political crisis in some Anglophone Caribbean countries—primarily Jamaica—can be understood as arising from the black middle‐class leadership's use of race and nationalism to obscure class issues. It argues that the race and national issues were and are legitimate class issues and that it is theoretically and practically a mistake to counterpose the two. The black middle class achieved important victor…
Soul Rebels
Postcolonialities
Transnationalism in the Caribbean
Comparing the effects of transnationalism in Central Europe with its effects in the English-speaking Caribbean reveals the unique features of the Caribbean: it is an area that has for centuries been both rooted in strong African ethnicities and deeply penetrated by global capitalism. This means that while the task of global capitalism in Central Europe is radical rupture, its task in the Caribbean is one of realignment. Complex interrelations bet…
Post-Colonialism and Beyond
Blackening the Jamaican nation
This paper discusses the recent attempt of a black professional stratum in Jamaica to transform itself into a bourgeoisie. It outlines the situation in the Afro‐Caribbean, which is characterized by a black elite controlling political power but a white or brown minority controlling the economy. It shows how the attempt of a rising black elite to obtain economic power was accompanied by a cautious narrative of black nationalism. This attempt is pla…
Analyzing the Jamaican Crisis
Freedom ossified or economic crisis? A comment on Holger Henke
This article contends with the view that the political crisis in some Anglophone Caribbean countries—primarily Jamaica—can be understood as arising from the black middle‐class leadership's use of race and nationalism to obscure class issues. It argues that the race and national issues were and are legitimate class issues and that it is theoretically and practically a mistake to counterpose the two. The black middle class achieved important victor…
Black Diversity in New York City
Islands in the City: West Indian Migration to New York. Nancy Foner. ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.312 pp.Trends in Ethnic Identification among Second-Generation Haitian Immigrants to New York City. Flore Zephir. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 2001. 248 pp
Callaloo or Tossed Salad
Callaloo or Tossed Salad: East Indians and the Cultural Politics of Identity in Trinidad. Viranjini Munasinghe. Ithaca, NY, and London, UK: Cornell University Press, 2001. xv+ 315 pp. (Cloth USS45.00; Paper US$19.95)
Martha Brae's Two Histories
Culture, Society and Economy
Bringing the Economy Back In Politics as Culture Stuart Hall Gilroy Neither Black nor Atlantic Globalization and Risks Capitalism Organized and Disorganized Network Society Theory 'Localization' Explored Alternatives A Global Approach to Anti-Globalization Conclusion The Noisy Sphere and the Hidden Abode
Cosmopolitanism and Planetary Humanism
Research Article| July 01 2005 Cosmopolitanism and Planetary Humanism: The Strategic Universalism of Paul Gilroy Don Robotham Don Robotham Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2005) 104 (3): 561–582. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-104-3-561 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools…
Afterword
The essays in this important collection pose the central issues facing the field of economic anthropology today. After the triumph of formalism in the debate with the substantivists, the question became whether any such subfield could continue to exist at all. This collection shows that a theoretically coherent field called economic anthropology is not only possible but vitally necessary and that its revival is underway. What will give this reviv…
Market and Society
Karl Polanyi's 1944 book, The Great Transformation, offered a radical critique of how the market system has affected society and humanity since the industrial revolution. This volume brings together contributions from distinguished scholars in economic anthropology, sociology and political economy to consider Polanyi's theories in the light of circumstances today, when the relationship between market and society has again become a focus of intens…
Anthropology and the Present Moment
This article, in honor of Antonio Lauria-Perricelli, examines some of the central theoretical issues which the current economic crisis poses for anthropological theory and practice. It points out that the “brute materiality” of the crisis, calls into question culturalist concepts of practice derived from Bourdieu as well as poststructuralist theories which minimize the significance of material macrostructures. It ends by emphasizing the need for …
Neoliberalism and Its Other
Introduction
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (10 works) · History (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Citation (4 works)