David Scott (born 1958) is a Jamaican academic and curator. He is the Ruth and William Lubic Professor of Anthropology and chair of the anthropology department at

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. He is a recipient of a 2023

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. Scott is the director of the Small Axe Project, which is devoted to Caribbean intellectual and artistic work.

Biography

Scott was born in Jamaica in 1958. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of the West Indies at Mona in 1980 and PhD from the

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in 1989. His research has focused on postcolonial politics, diaspora, and cultural history in the Caribbean and Sri Lanka. Scott is the curatorial director of the 2022 Kingston Biennial. He is also the director of the Small Axe Project, which is devoted to Caribbean intellectual and artistic work. He is the author of books that include ''Formations of Ritual: Colonial and Anthropological Discourses on the Sinhala Yaktovil'' (1994), ''Refashioning Futures: Criticism After Postcoloniality'' (1999), ''Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment'' (2004), ''Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice'' (2014), ''Stuart Hall's Voice: Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity'' (2017), and ''Irreparable Evil: An Essay in Moral and Reparatory History'' (2024). He co-edited, with Charles Hirschkind, ''Powers of the Secular Modern: Talal Asad and His Interlocutors'' (2006).

Publications

* ''Formations of Ritual: Colonial and Anthropological Discourses on the Sinhala Yaktovil'' (University of Minnesota Press, 1994) * ''Refashioning Futures: Criticism After Postcoloniality'' (Princeton University Press, 1999) * ''Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment'' (Duke University Press, 2004) * ''Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice'' (Duke University Press, 2014) * ''Stuart Hall's Voice: Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity'' (Duke University Press, 2017) * ''Irreparable Evil: An Essay in Moral and Reparatory History'' (Columbia University Press, 2024)

As editor

* With Charles Hirschkind, ''Powers of the Secular Modern: Talal Asad and His Interlocutors'' (Stanford University Press, 2006, )

References

External links

Criticism as a question': David Scott talks to Nicholas Laughlin about the past, present, and future of the journal ''Small Axe''
'' The Caribbean Review of Books'', 18 November 2008.
"David Scott (Columbia), Nicholson Distinguished Scholar Lecture, February 27, 2020"
Lecture by Scott entitled "The Idea of a Moral and Reparatory History of New World Slavery". {{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, David Living people 1958 births American curators Columbia University faculty Jamaican academics Jamaican anthropologists The New School alumni University of the West Indies alumni