Francio Guadeloupe

Francio Guadeloupe is an Associate Professor in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), and a senior researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) in Leiden. Guadeloupe’s principle areas of research have been on the manner in which popular understandings of national belonging, cultural diversity, religious identity, and mass media constructions of truth, continue to be impacted by colonial racisms and global capital. He is the author of the monographs Chanting Down the New Jerusalem: Calypso, Christianity, and Capitalism in the Caribbean (University of California Press, 2009) and Black Man in the Netherlands: an Afro-Antillean Anthropology (University Press of Mississippi, 2022). He is also the co-editor of Rotterdam: een postkoloniale stad in beweging (Boom, 2020) and Equaliberty in the Dutch Caribbean: Ways of Being Non/Sovereign (Rutgers University Press, 2022).