Public lecture with David Scott
Facilitated by Prof Victoria Collis-Buthelezi

JIAS, 1 Tolip Rd, Westdene

Join us with Jamaican academic, curator and Small Axe founding editor Prof David Scott for a deep dive into the radical political thinking and praxis of Walter Rodney, grounded in his seminal text, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972). We’ll be thinking through context, how the text has travelled, and how it registers now, as we navigate the afterlives of colonisation and apartheid and a global order of anti-Black violence.

Those joining for the lecture are encouraged to engage in advance with Prof Scott’s text, Between Revolution and Repair: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa in a Caribbean Intellectual Tradition.

David Scott is the Ruth & William Lubic Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is also the founder and editor of Small Axe and director of the Small Axe Project. Scott is currently completing a book (tentatively titled), Irreparable Evil: New World Slavery in Moral History and working on a biography of Stuart Hall.

Watch the video! (forthcoming)