You are warmly invited to attend our first Moray House Trust Conversation for 2022.
In the forthcoming series we invite academics to discuss a paper they have published.
Title: Will Oil Fuel Conflict in Guyana?
Date: Saturday 19th March 2022
Time: 3.30 PM Guyana/New York/Toronto
7.30 PM London
Platforms: ZOOM and FACEBOOK
ZOOM
Moray House Trust is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: MHT Conversation: Will Oil Fuel Conflict in Guyana?
Time: Mar 19, 2022 03:30 PM Guyana
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This first conversation will feature content and themes from a paper written by Arif Bulkan and Alissa Trotz about a year ago, assessing Guyana’s recent election impasse in the context of its racially divisive politics and examining the role of both commodity exports and multinational corporations in amplifying internal tensions, divisions and competition for power and resources.
The paper can be read here: Oil Fuels Guyana’s Internecine Conflict | Current History | University of California Press (ucpress.edu)
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Dr Bulkan and Professor Trotz will discuss some of the themes raised with Sara Bharrat and Derwayne Wills. Arif Bulkan is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the St. Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies. Alissa Trotz is a professor of Caribbean studies and director of women and gender studies at the University of Toronto. Sara Bharrat is a student practitioner of Electoral Policy and Administration and a Democracy and Governance Professional with the Democracy Resource Centre and the International Republican Institute. Derwayne Wills, Online Editor at the Guyana Chronicle, is a journalist with a background in sociology.
Moray House Trust
Moray House Trust has worked for a decade to promote culture and public discourse in Guyana. It was founded on the belief that a culture thrives and develops where ideas circulate and are robustly debated and interrogated.
Regards,
Moray House Trust
Comments
Where there is oil, there is always trouble. Someone else always wants to control it. Good luck
guyaneseonline posted: ” You are warmly invited to attend our first Moray House Trust Conversation for 2022. In the forthcoming series we invite academics to discuss a paper they have published. Title: Will Oil Fuel Conflict in Guyana? Date: Saturd”
“Oil has emerged as the new sugar, and the political elites serve as managers on behalf of international capital. This is Guyana’s tragedy: historically oppressed peoples direct their hostility at each other while neo-imperial powers hide in plain sight and reap the country’s wealth.”
Let’s hope that a certain demographic of Guyanese don’t become barbaric and limb-chopping Saudis who mistreat Blacks.