Meta Cramer
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Phd project: "Making social knowledge in a post-colonial world order: research and career practices of social scientists in the anglophone Caribbean"
My dissertation project analyses the making of social knowledge and academic careers in postcolonial orders based on a case study of social scientists in the anglophone Caribbean. As the global political order was reconfigured since the decolonization period, the academic system was and is shaped by post-colonial power structures and a dominance of knowledge production in former colonial metropoles. This represents a challenging situation for social scientists in the Global South who have to develop strategies to handle post-colonial hegemonies in academia in their career and research practices and negotiate their role and position. While research on global inequalities in the production and circulation of knowledge exists both in Post-, De-colonial, Southern Sociology and Science and Higher Education studies, explicit empirical studies remain missing that combine the two fields and focus on concrete social practices in which these macro-structures of inequality are negotiated. Therefore, the project examines the case of social sciences and scientists at The University of the West Indies (UWI), situated in a history of de-colonial, radical Caribbean thought and activism. Empirically, the project is planned to build on interviews along with document analysis and historical secondary literature.
