Abstract: Peggy Antrobus
The gift is an integral part of the history and culture of Caribbean
economies
Out of a history of slavery and colonialism Caribbean people built new
forms of family and community that transcend kinship and geography. The
presentation will show how the gift is an integral part of the history
and culture of Caribbean economies and a strong diaspora in North America
and Europe. The gift economy allows Caribbean people to survive environmental
shocks that range from those created by economic dependence and debt and
the globalisation of neoliberal capitalism to the increasingly severe
hurricanes generated by global warming.
Biographical Information
Peggy Antrobus is from the Caribbean: born in Grenada, educated in St.Lucia
and St.Vincent, worked in Jamaica and lives in Barbados. She has degrees
in economics, social work and education. Since the 1960s she has worked
with government and NGO programmes in the field of development and social
change, but she now identifies herself as chiefly as a feminist activist.
As a feminist she has been a founding member of a number of networks including
CAFRA (the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action), DAWN
(the network of Third World women promoting Development Alternatives with
Women for a New Era), IGTN (the International Gender & Trade Network)
and most recently Feminists for a Gift Economy and the International Feminist
University Network.
Over the years she has written and published extensively on the wide range
of topics related to women's role in and perspectives on international
development. Her book on the global women's movement will be published
by Zed Books this fall.
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