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Title:
Assistant Professor, African and African-American Studies
Education:
Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Florida.
Teaching Interests:
Current Research:
My interests lie in the areas of globalization studies, social movements, gender, race, public anthropology, and the Caribbean region (specifically, former British colonies). The book on which I currently am working is entitled Challenges to Globalization and considers the case of banana producers on the island of St. Lucia who were confronted by and were confronting notions and strategies of globalization. More specifically, my work focuses on producers' forms of resistance against official explanations for economic and political changes in the banana industry, between 1986-1995. To explore resistance and social movements, I look at banana growers' discourses on the banana industry revealed in their subtle, public, individual, and collectively organized actions and words. I pay particular attention to the ways that producers' strategies included exposing and redefining a social order around culture, color, class and region to suggest a different foundation and remedy to the so-called "banana crisis."
Curriculum vitae (not currently available)
Email: kaslo@email.unc.edu
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