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Guadeloupe, Dr. Francio

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Francio Guadeloupe is the endowed KNAW-KITLV and the University of Amsterdam Professor of the Public Anthropology of Kingdom Relations. Guadeloupe’s academic work and posts span both sides of the trans-Atlantic Kingdom of the Netherlands. Besides holding posts at many of the major universities in the Netherlands and the KNAW, Guadeloupe also served for four years, between 2013 to 2017, as the President of the University of St. Martin on the bi-national island of Sint Maarten and Saint Martin (Dutch and French West Indies). He is the program Chair of the NWO funded research program ‘Island(er)s at the Helm: Co-creating research on sustainable and inclusive solutions for social adaptation to climate challenges in the Dutch Caribbean’. Guadeloupe also co-Chairs the NWA funded research program ‘Re/Presenting Europe: Popular representations of diversity and belonging in the Netherlands’.  

Guadeloupe’s principle areas of research have been on the manner in which popular understandings of national belonging, cultural diversity, religious identity, and mass media constructions of truth, continue to be impacted by colonial racisms and global capital. He has pursued these interests in his research and publications on social processes on the bi-national island of Saint Martin & Sint Maarten (St. Martin), Curaçao, Aruba, Saba, Sint Eustatius, Brazil, and the Netherlands. He is the author of the monograph, Chanting Down the New Jerusalem: Calypso, Christianity, and Capitalism in the Caribbean (University of California Press, 2009). Dr. Guadeloupe is currently embarking on a study of climate challenges in the (Dutch)Caribbean from a popular culture and cultural heritage perspective.

Selected Publications

‘Inheritance: On beauty and tragedy in the Dutch Caribbean’, in: W. Modest & W. Flores (eds.), Our colonial inheritance, pp. 326-345. Tielt: Lannoo Publishing, 2024.  

With Adriaan van Stipriaan and Luc Alofs (eds.), Caribbean cultural heritage and the nation: Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao in a regional context. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2023.  

Black man in the Netherlands: An Afro-Antillean Anthropology. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2022.  

With Yvon van der Pijl (eds.), Equaliberty as the quest for sovereignty in the Dutch Caribbean. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2022.  

With Paul van de Laar & Liane van der Linden (eds.), Rotterdam: Een postkoloniale stad in beweging. Amsterdam: Boom Publishers, 2020. 

With Jordi Halfman, ‘All-inclusive resorts in Sint Maarten and our common decolonial state: On butterflies that are caterpillars still in chrysalis’, in: J. Guibault, & T. Rommen (eds.), Sounds of vacation: Political economies of Caribbean tourism, pp. 134-160. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.  

With Ivette Romero, ‘Thou shalt not kill! Or notes on Caribbean music as literary text on being human’, Il Tolomeo; A Postcolonial Studies Journal 1-20, pp. 209-224, 2018.  

With Rose Mary Allen, ‘Yu di Kòrsou, ‘A matter of negotiation: An anthropological exploration of the identity work of Afro-Curaçaons’, in: Jan Willem Duyvendak, Peter Geschiere, & Evelien Tonkens (eds.), The culturalization of citizenship: Belonging and polarization in a globalizing world, pp. 137-160. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 

‘Curaçaons on the question of home: The lure of autochthony and its alternatives’, in: L. Lewis (ed.), Caribbean sovereignty, development and democracy in an age of globalization, pp. 189- 207. New York [etc.]: Routledge, 2013. 

Chanting down the new Jerusalem: Calypso, Christianity, and capitalism in the Caribbean. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009. 

With Vincent de Rooij (Eds), Zo zijn onze manieren…: visies op multiculturaliteit in Nederland. Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers, 2007.