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In this report first published on Global Voices, The Bridge, Bynoe asks critical questions of island communities across the Grenadines: can they co-visualise positive changes as disaster capitalism, land grab, and the threats of gentrification, ‘organised abandonment’ and ‘Build Back Better’ loom?
Read MoreBynoe shares on her experience at the recently convened Commonwealth Association of Museums (CAM) 2024 Triennial Conference whose theme ‘The View From Here: Sustainability, Community and Knowledge Systems,’ welcomed delegates from the four corners of the globe. Hosted in Auckland, Aotearoa, from March 3rd to 8th, under the radical hospitality and care of the Auckland War Memorial Museum and the Waikato Museum, these observations summarise important questions raised during the gathering around the possibility of decolonisation, aspects of collaboration, guardianship and community engagement.
Read MoreVictoria Lee writes about my PhD Research for the University of St. Andrews’ Research and Impact in ‘Sacred Space and Social Memory’: lessons from the land in the Grenadines and the Isle of Skye.
Read MoreThe Caribbean, with its history of colonisation and the eventual independence for most countries, is already mostly out of opportunities with regards to its timeline of development in conjunction with the new world. The trauma of post-colonisation and the current wave of investment further strips away our integrity and humanity. It is crucial for these development and social initiatives to work in context with the situations that they find on the ground.
Read MoreMartinican poet and philosopher, Édouard Glissant, spoke of a rhizome—a type of powerful lateral-growing root system—and, just like this, we are able to move underground into the subterranean and sprout new growth to transform and shift our spaces. To be innovative, excellent and meet the magic and intensity of our creative minds let's put courage, truth and integrity as the values by which we measure all of our actions.
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