Dialogue Series - #07 - COVID 19  Intensifying the existential threat to the caribbean
Channel: NETEL • UFABC
Date: 2021-06-02

Dialogue Series - #07 - COVID-19: Intensifying the Existential Threat to the Caribbean

Some years ago, the late celebrated Caribbean political economist, Norman Girvan, warned of the existential threats to the Caribbean from the developing climate change crisis and the persistent debt peonage. COVID-19 has now exposed all of the vulnerabilities of the region that are rooted in the way in which it has been inserted in the world economy and maintained by dependent development strategies. The exception has been Cuba, which resists engagement on unequal terms, while the Anglo-Caribbean, which is linguistically a small part of the region, is perhaps most significant in terms of what is at stake in global politics. The challenge is to see what options exist and assess the state of social movements in the sub-region.

Key speaker: Michael Witter
Senior Research Fellow, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Jamaica

Discussant:
Lyn Ossome
Senior Research Fellow, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Moderator:
Praveen Jha
Professor, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning & Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Supporting partners
Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India
Pós-graduação em Economia Política Mundial, Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil
Global University for Sustainability
Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Ghana
Núcleo Educacional de Tecnologias e Línguas, Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil

Core Partners
ActionAid Association, India
Agrarian South Network
The Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies, Zimbabwe
Horário
7 out 2020 06:30 PM em Índia