Event: MHT Conversation
Host: Moray House Trust
Date: Saturday 19th March 2022
Time: 3.30PM Guyana/New York/Toronto, 7.30PM UK
Participants: Dr Arif Bulkan, Prof Alissa Trotz, Sara Bharrat
Platforms: Zoom/Facebook Live
This conversation featured 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)
Link: https://online.ucpress.edu/currenthistory/article/120/823/71/115917/Oil-Fuels-Guyana-s-Internecine-Conflict
Dr Bulkan and Professor Trotz discuss some of the themes raised with Sara Bharrat. 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.
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.