Caine Lewin-Turner

Research Topic

Traditions of Black Autarky: Black Radical Theories and Praxes of Cultivation, Technology, and Welfare

Black Atlantic History, Anarchist History

Building from my MPhil thesis on black anarchism, my DPhil seeks to comprehend the autarkic desires of black radicalism across the Anglophone African diaspora. This is, in essence, an attempt to consider the centrality of self-sufficiency in anti-state black radicalism, as well as the environmental and technological factors informing and shaping (consciously or otherwise) black radical traditions. For this, I centre the agricultural and culinary traditions of Rasta epistemology, the ambitions of post-emancipation Jamaican squatters, Philadelphia’s MOVE Movement, and black British anti-statism.

Supervisor: Professor Stephen Tuck and Professor Meleisa Ono-George