November 26, 2009 | 2.00-4.30 PM

Francio GUADELOUPE|Radboud Universiteit

Nijmegen, Netherlands

 

Saint Martin & Sint Maarten featuring the World

 

Center for Latin American
and Caribbean Studies, King Juan Carlos Center |KJCC

53 Washington Square South | Room 428 | 2-4 pm

Our guest

Francio Guadeloupe roots and routes connect the French, Dutch, English, and Spanish speaking Caribbean, and he lived most of his life in Europe. Guadeloupe's principle areas of research have been on the manner in which nationalism, multiculturality, media, and religion continue to be impacted by the long colonial moment and global capital. He has pursued these interests in his research and publications on social processes on the bi-national island of Saint Martin (French) and Sint Maarten (Dutch), Brazil, Aruba, and the Netherlands.

His latest book, Chanting Down the New Jerusalem: Calypso, Christianity, and Capitalism in the Caribbean, is scheduled to be released by the University of California Press coming December. Currently Dr. Guadeloupe is busy with a research on the culturalisation of citizenship in Europe: the growing conflation of ethno-racial nationalist discourse with civic understandings of citizenship. He pursues this by charting the ways in which European citizens hailing from the non-independent Caribbean (French, Dutch, and British territories) perceive current trends in France, the Netherlands, and Great Britain.