Events

Please join us for a “What I Am Thinking About Now” presentation by Patsy Lewis, Visiting Professor and Faculty Fellow of the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University and Director of the Development Studies Program. This conversation, titled "Crisis, Shock and Resilience: A Caribbean Story," focuses on Grenada’s experiences in the aftermath of diverse political and environmental shocks that include the US invasion in October 1983, following the killing of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and members of his government, and the devastating effects of Hurricane Ivan in September 2004 which ravaged the economy and society. It locates Grenada in the social cohesion literature, exploring the structures that helped the society to recover from these shocks, and in post-conflict literature which explores different approaches to understanding societal ruptures and the impacts resulting from the restructuring of the economy along neo-liberal lines.