|
|
 |
| DR.
JOHN RAPLEY |
 |
| John
Rapley |
|
| John
Rapley was educated in Canada, at Carleton University and Queen's
University, and in England, where he was a post-doctoral fellow
at the University of Oxford. He wrote his doctoral thesis, which
became his first book, on West African political economy. After
teaching at universities in Canada and England, he settled in Jamaica
in 1994 where he now teaches in the Department of Government at
the University of the West Indies. He also joined the establishment
of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Aix-en-Provence, France,
where he teaches every spring. And in 2000-2001, he was a fellow
of Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
In addition to his academic work, John Rapley is also the foreign
affairs columnist for the Jamaica Gleaner. The author of three books
and numerous scholarly articles, he has published hundreds of columns
in the Gleaner, as well as many magazines and newspapers abroad.
When he first came to Jamaica, John Rapley was struck by the fact
that the vast amount of discussion of the Jamaican economy drew
upon a limited research base. Convinced that if the country was
to get onto a long-term and sustainable development path it would
need a well-informed development plan, he gathered together a like-minded
group of people from various walks of Jamaican life to discuss the
possibility of an ambitious research project. So was born the Taking
Responsibility Project.
|
| FARRAH
BROWN |
 |
| Farrah
Brown |
|
| Farrah
Brown is a graduate of the University of the West Indies where she
read for the B.Sc. in International Relations and Political Science
(2000) and the M.Sc. in Government (International Relations –
2002). In 2002 she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship which allowed
her to undertake further graduate studies at New York University.
She graduated with an MA in Political Science (focusing on International
Relations and Political Theory) from the Department of Political
Science, New York University in May of 2004. While studying in New
York she worked as an intern at the Permanent Mission of Jamaica
to the United Nations and at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and
International Affairs. Since returning home, Farrah has tutored
and taught part-time in the Department of Government, UWI, Mona.
She maintains a keen interest in international relations, particularly
international relations theory, foreign policy formulation and international
law, as well as contemporary political theory. She currently works
full time in the Jamaican Foreign Service.
Why I joined the project:
The opportunity to participate in the Taking ResponsibilityProject
was one that I readily embraced because it provided a context for
learning about the evolution of the Jamaican economy since independence
as well as contributing to a full-scale, multi-disciplinary examination
of the various facets of the economy. I was particularly enthusiastic
about the prospect of working with established scholars and practitioners
from whom there was much to learn, as well as a younger generation
of scholars and practitioners, most of whom were able to stand outside
of some of the binaries that informed the thinking of an earlier
generation of scholars, to ask pertinent questions about the path
that we have taken as a nation since independence and to come up
with interesting practical solutions to the challenges with which
we are faced in the contemporary period. To date, my work with the
project has taken me down several paths, some of which were intriguing
because our research findings have challenged widely held notions,
and others because I was tasked with asking questions that I had
not considered prior to working with the project. |
|
