(Neo)-liberal, pan-African or anti-imperialist? Reparations and Caribbean freedom at the borders of history

Keynote lecture (Neo)-liberal, Pan-African or anti-imperialist? Reparations and Caribbean freedom at the borders of history, by Dr. Keston Perry (University of California - Los Angeles)

This talk approaches the debate on the reparations from the perspective of sovereignty and implications for Caribbean freedom across borders.

With a critical look at the Caribbean reparations program, and proposals for reform of the international financial system which Caribbean leaders have cosigned and merged, it considers what is at stake for sovereignty and communal freedom given these various neoliberal/developmental proposals and related ideologies and strategies. Breaking from the elite-driven, (neo)liberal approach, it calls for and proffers a democratic, community-driven, anti-imperialist agenda for reparations in the Caribbean. 

Keston  Perry, is a political economist whose teaching and research centers on race, reparations, plantation economy,  colonialism and climate change, Caribbean political economy and economic history, and global finance and governance. Based on interdisciplinary research and scholarship, his work examines the entanglements of race as an economic ordering driver in the climate crisis, capitalism and related global financial arrangements, and their implications on marginalized communities in the African diaspora, especially the Caribbean region.