Abstract:This paper analyses the socio-spatial entanglement of West Indian anti-colonial knowledge production in the mid-20 th century existing between London and the Caribbean. This is interpreted as a case of the paradoxical politics of academic knowledge production in that British imperial policies that were constraining knowledge production in the West Indies were also seen as facilitating anticolonial awareness and work in London by West Indian actors. Research demonstrating the importance of the metropole as a me… Show more
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