Carnival Art, Culture and Politics

Michaeline A. Crichlow is an historical sociologist in the African and African American Studies department at Duke University, USA, and is the author of Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation (2009) and Negotiating Caribbean Freedom: Peasants and the State in Development (2005). She has written and published on informality, creolization, development in several journals, and is currently researching for book projects on citizenship and migration and the question of place and space.

1. Introduction: Carnival Praxis, Carnivalesque Strategies and Atlantic Interstices Michaeline A. Crichlow, Duke University, USA; and Piers Armstrong, California State University, USA 2. Carnival Time Versus Modern Social Life: A False Distinction Gerard Aching, Cornell University, USA 3. Feathered Footsteps: Mythologizing and Ritualizing Black Indian Processions in New Orleans Stephen C. Wehmeyer, Champlain College, USA 4. Bahian Carnival and social Carnivalesque in Transatlantic Context Piers Armstrong, California State University, USA 5. ‘The Return of Crazy Mother’: the Cultural Politics of Carnival in 1930s Dijon Philip Whalen, Coastal Carolina University, USA 6. Ethnic Identity and Elite Idyll: A comparison of carnival in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay, 1900-1920 Kristen McCleary, George Mason University, USA 7. Carnival time in the Kingdom of Coal Mary Hufford, University of Pennyslvania, USA 8. Carnivals against Capital: Radical Clowning and the Global Justice Movement L. M. Bogad, University of California Davis, USA 9. Incremental Art: Negotiating the Route of London’s Notting Hill Carnival Lesley Ferris, Ohio State University, USA