Comments and Reflections
Ato Quayson
Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies
University of Toronto
1. The question of method
2. Clifford and Marcus, Writing Culture (1986)
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The shaping of the narrative account within the social sciences and
the humanities; paradigms and templates
Event/epoch vrs process
3. Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at Large (1996)
 Localities as ethnoscapes
 Relationality
 Localities as sites of practices, interpretation, and value
 The question of temporality
4. David Harvey, The Limits of Capital (1982; 2006)
 The nature of the spatial fix
 Correlating the spatial fix of the global onto the local sphere
 Processes and contradictions
5. What is the moral grammar of difference?
 Examples from Black Britain
 Why is it that Afro-Caribbeans in the UK carry their sense of
entitlement so differently from Africans in the same context?
 Speculations of the routes/roots of different moral grammars from
plantation slavery and the colonial economies