Francio Guadeloupe

Francio Guadeloupe is a Aruban born Social & Cultural Anthropologist. He is currently employed as a senior researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) and as Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. 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, forthcoming).