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Dancehall’s Rebel Women: Curating Afro-Caribbean Freedoms via Popular Culture

Online29 January 2022 - 29 January 2022
Dancehall’s Rebel Women: Curating Afro-Caribbean Freedoms via Popular Culture

Dancehall’s Rebel Women: Curating Afro-Caribbean Freedoms via Popular Culture

27 January 2022

Closes: 29 January 2022

Using a case study approach, this presentation by Dona P. Hope, PhD, discusses Jamaica’s dancehall culture as a site for feminist empowerment and liberation.

A keen cultural activist with a deep interest in Black, working class culture, and a researcher with a strong ethnographic focus, Professor Hope is the founder of The Dancehall Archive and Research Initiative which preserves, innovates and disseminates information about dancehall culture.

29.01.2022 at 16h CET.

Moderated by Tmnit Ghide.

This talk is part of the Unruly Thoughts Online Festival. For more please read here.

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