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Abstracts for
August 31 , 2003
Women and Development Studies....
Shifting Centres and Moving Margins.....
Gender Studies: Interdisciplinary ......
Constructing Feminist Knowledge....
Gender, Information Technology......
Shifting, Dismantling, Erecting ......
A Different Imagination
Documentary Film
Reflections in the Looking Glass...
"Not without meh man"
Mirror Mirror: A feminist examination.....
Ambivalent aspirations: Assertion .....
Gender and HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean: ....
Governance, Leadership
& Decision Making.....

Constitutional Reform in the Caribbean

The Caribbean Experience.....
When the Post-Colonial State Bureaucratizes.....
Feminisms, Gender Studies, Activism....
A Different Imagination: Documentary Film
 

How may we imagine the new world differently that that constructed through the western discourses of enlightenment and progress from the fifteenth century onwards. How may we perceive the discovery, colonization and cultural development of peoples of the Caribbean region. The film, the first in a series, sets up the parameters by which might begin to view the “Other” and deconstruct the binaries which have underpinned western thought.

I came to this project through the study of gender because it allowed me the voice to speak, to move from the personal to the political, from the specific to the general, to break disciplinary boundaries, to disrupt the knowledges that we have inherited. The study of gender has been perceived primarily as a litany of woes about man-woman relations and the battle of the sexes. The film attempts to dispel popular perceptions that this is the totality of gender scholarship and activism. Gender offers a new way of seeing, not only how stereotypes are constructed and perpetuated, but reminding us that there are different sources of data that we might make use of and different legacies that people bring to their society’s development, despite and because of their particular gendered, ethnic and class experiences.

 

 

 
 
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