The author has chosen a writing style that is both informative and entertaining and seeks to throw new light on such epic chapters in Dominica’s history as the passage of the notorious Prohibited and Unlawful Societies and Associations Act 1974(The Dread Act) by the Patrick John administration in 1974. DREAD, RASTAFARI AND ETHIOPIA The definitive historical report of the beginning and the rise of the RastafarI movement in the Commonwealth of Dominica is part autobiographical and part fictional and definitely documentary. I interviewed notable characters whose living memory of the dramatic events of the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s speak volumes, more than any research from books could disclose. The methods used to prepare this book included extensive research in past issues of Dominica’s oldest newspaper, The Chronicle I perused publications by fellow Dominican authors that have broached the subject, albeit in less words than it deserves.

It’s author, poet, and author Ras Ras Albert Williams, as a child was swept up in the waves of black power sentiments and inward introspection of the times that was to prepare the backdrop of the formation of RastafarI today. Or, playing off from post-Heidegger or postcolonial definitions of worlding, we would offer this summarizing definition: 'WORLDING (v) - a historical process of taking care, setting limits, entering into, & making world-horizons come near & become local, situated, in/formed, cared for instantiated as an uneven/incomplete material-cultural process of world-making and world-becoming.'ĭREAD, RASTAFARI AND ETHIOPIA The definitive historical report of the beginning and the rise of the RastafarI movement in the Commonwealth of Dominica As the title of this book suggests, it documents the development of the RastafarI movement in Dominica from its dramatic inception in the 1970’s to the present day. In one compressed verb 'worlding' means building-up the life-world that is, actively worlding it. The former process (deworlding) suggests enduring impacts of empire, colonialism, and turbo-capitalism upon other life-worlds and threatened ways of being. Worlding-as-projection is still shadowed by residual forces and forms of 'deworlding,' as well as stands opposed to those called (by Tsing and Haraway et al) 'reworlding': that is to say, energies and practices of going and coming, breaking down and building up life-worlds. Worlding stands for a range of alter-globalization and situated localization practices being projected forward out into and across the everyday world that is riddled and driven by mandates of capitalist dynamism and globalization. “Worlding” (as I phrased it in the “Afterword: Worlding as Future Tactic” to Worlding Project) means at once a mode of “building up a life-world palpably disclosing its lived-in modalities, boundaries, tactics, and historical processes” of survival and emergence.

Worlding is not so much a theme or subject as it is a tactic or a practice or projection of world-making, projecting forth, and life-world becoming and building-up to use a Goethe-like word for cultural formation. It is in this political-ethical sense of lived culture that co-editors Christopher Connery and I had deployed “worlding” to enact a stipulated cultural-political-creative ethos or tactic of situated opposition to the telos of globalization, in our co-edited collection The Worlding Project: Doing Cultural Studies in the Era of Globalization.

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