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Grafting Freedom - or the Evidence of Things Not Seen
16 January 2024, 5:00 pm–7:00 pm
“The pleasure and paradox of my own exile is that I belong wherever I am. My role, it seems, has rather to do with time and change than with geography of circumstances; and yet there is always an acre of ground in the New World which keeps growing echoes in my head.” George Lamming, The Pleasures of Exile
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The UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation – The Sarah Parker Remond Centre
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Common Ground, G11Gower Street, South WingLondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
Abstract: You are warmly invited to join Sarah Parker Remond Centre Research Fellow Dr. Elizabeth Cooper who will share and discuss her current research on the historical and political praxis of diasporic Caribbean horticulture.
Those who moved to the UK from the Caribbean in the post-WWII era brought with them tangible and intangible horticultural knowledge that was deeply interwoven with the legacies and machinations of colonial exploitation.
What historical and political imaginations are unearthed if we see “Windrush” from the perspective of grassroots decolonisation that WWII interrupted rather than catalysed? And, more precisely, from the most enduring – yet ever-changing – subaltern expression of the simultaneously traumatic and creative conscription to modernity: popular Caribbean horticulture?
About the Speaker
Dr Elizabeth Cooper
Research Fellow at The Sarah Parker Remond Centre
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