Empire in the Present

This paper examines the East and West Indies within the broader context of the Commonwealth as a culture area defined by the colonising legacy of the British Empire. I argue that the Commonwealth is a supranational geography, both structural and imaginary, which shapes contemporary culture and lived experience in important ways (including state politics, educational policy, sports, language and expressive culture). Ethnographically, the paper focuses on the cultural space of colonial and post‐colonial Trinidad, with its ‘East’ and ‘West’ Indian populations. While recent critiques of area studies and colonialism have rightly emphasised the shaping of culture across colony and metropole, I show how colony‐to‐colony relations were crucial to the power and stability of empire. This historicised transregional approach has an impact on critical concepts of nation, metropole/periphery and diaspora, while suggesting important directions for research currently obfuscated by the scholarly limitations of area studies

Archaeology · British Empire · Colonialism · Commonwealth · Context (archaeology) · Diaspora · Empire · Ethnology · Geography · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · The Imaginary · West indies · Anthropology · Australian History and Society · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · Law · Socioeconomic Development in Asia

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