MY BELONGING

My Belonging

in an Age of Extraordinary Technological Disruption

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Meet the Author

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Prelude

Contemplations

Chapter 1

Invocations

Chapter 2

Recollections

Chapter 3

Generations

Preface

Introductions

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- Dr. Annalee C. Babb

Meet the author

The Time of My Remembering is a poetic piece I began years ago that continues to speak tothe moment. Its theme is understanding who we are, what we were born to accomplish, and how who we are and what we are called to do has the potential to connect us to each other in empowering communities that anchor us in the world.

- Dr. Annalee C. Babb

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My Belonging

“Know yuh place!” That’s how Bajans warn people to stay in their lane. While it usually signals someone has overstepped or is in danger of breaching an invisible line, on the flip side, there’s value in understanding where we belong. There is power in knowing our purpose. As the world faces turmoil triggered by countless existential crises, I’m launching My Belonging to encourage virtual conversations around civic decay, national reconstruction and the idea of digital transformation.

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My Belonging

I’m doing this because I believe real change happens only when individuals are, themselves, transformed … but there is a structure, a process, a discipline, and principles that govern such transformations. As we would say in Barbados, “It doan just happen so!” The tiny islands of the Caribbean can become test beds for new approaches to solving difficult global challenges … but they have to first realise their own internal transformations.

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My Belonging

Introductions, the preface to My Belonging, sets the stage for a virtual exploration of these issues. At its core is my evolving understanding of what it means to be an Afro-Caribbean woman of faith specialising in technology policy, innovation and development at this global changing of the seasons.

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Theme = IDENTITY

The Time Of My Remembering

The Time of My Remembering is a poetic piece I began years ago that continues to speak to the moment. Its theme is understanding who we are, what we were born to accomplish, and how who we are and what we are called to do has the potential to connect us to each other in empowering communities that anchor us in the world.

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The Idea Of Belonging

Nothing stays the same. Change is an inevitable by-product of the human condition. But as time seems to accelerate in a 21st century world driven by the technologies and existential crises of the moment, what imprint has Barbados’ history as a plantation economy had on its development and its perception of what it means to belong to today?

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The Idea Of Belonging

How does a tiny nation preserve its distinctiveness in an interconnected world being overtaken by the mass movement of people, money, information, knowledge, and cultural content? How does it make the transition from a consumer society shaped by the remnants of the plantation to an economy fuelled by home-grown innovation, where its people have a safe place to belong?

Chapter 2 <> Recollections

Theme <> MEMORY

The Memory of Belonging

As we watch the things our parents and grandparents built collapse under the weight of universal demands for justice and a balanced, sustainable future, these days I find myself reflecting more and more on the memory of belonging. Who or what is a Barbadian, a Bajan as we say? What makes Barbados unique? What role has the island’s history as a plantation economy founded on the trade in enslaved Africans had on who we are as a people attached to this particular geography at this particular moment in time?

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The Memory of Belonging

The truth is that identity is a social construct. In many ways, we are what we remember. Perhaps even what our DNA remembers. And our memory of belonging, or of not belonging as the case might be, has the power to shape how we treat to today.

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Theme <> EMANCIPATION | LIBERATION

The Promise of Belonging

The Promise of Belonging is beautifully articulated in the “Children of Independence”, an opinion piece I wrote to reflect on Barbados’ 44th anniversary as a sovereign state. It was published in the Sunday Sun edition of the Barbados Nation Newspaper on November 28, 2010. It continues to astonish me how prophetic these words were for their time, and how much they continue to mirror Barbados’ current reality more than 12 years after they were written.