Dr Adom Philogene Heron
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Adom's work concerns questions of gender, kinship, the life-course and hurricanes in the Caribbean.
His doctoral work (St Andrews, 2017), explored the complex kinship trajectories of men - as lovers, fathers and grandfathers - in the Commonwealth of Dominica. He curates the 'Fathermen' blog which stands as the extroverted twin to this project - http://fathermen.blogspot.co.uk.
Before joining Goldsmiths Adom held a postdoctoral fellowship with the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) at The School of Advanced Study. Here he developed a survey of Senate House Library's extensive Caribbean studies collections - https://ilas.sas.ac.uk/resources/caribbean-studies-collection.
Adom’s chapter, ‘Becoming Papa’ won the Emerys Peters Essay Prize (Manchester 2014) and features in the volume Parenthood Between Generations (Berghahn 2016). His essay, ‘Naming the Father and the Mystics of Kinship’, won the 2017 Council on Anthropology and Reproduction Essay Prize (American Anth’ Assoc) and is due to be published in The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (2018). Another chapter, ‘Being Said/Seen to Care’, is forthcoming in Discourses in Latin America and The Caribbean (Palgrave 2018).
Adom's current project, preliminarily entitled 'Surviving Storms', develops an inter-generational collaborative conversation on Dominican experiences of two hurricanes (David 1979 and Maria 2017). The Dominica Book Barrel project, which seeks to replenish some of Dominica's library stock following the devastation of hurricane Maria, is an extension of this project - https://dominicabookbarrelproject.wordpress.com
Education:
2017, PhD, Social Anthropology, St Andrews
2012, MRes, Social Anthropology, St Andrews.
2010, BA ,Social Anthropology and Development Studies, Sussex
Publications
Book Section
Philogene Heron, Adom. 2018. ‘Being Said/Seen to Care: Masculine Silences and Emerging Visibilities of Intimate Fatherhood in Dominica, Lesser Antilles’. In: Eleonora Esposito; Carolina Pérez-Arredondo and José Manuel Ferreiro, eds. Discourses from Latin America and the Caribbean: Current Concepts and Challenges. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 267-298. ISBN 9783319936239
Philogene Heron, Adom. 2016. Becoming Papa: Kinship, Senescence and the Ambivalent Inward Journeys of Ageing Men in the Antilles. In: Siân Pooley and Kaveri Qureshi, eds. Pooley, S., & Qureshi, K. (Eds.). (2016). Parenthood between generations: Transforming reproductive cultures. 32 New York / Oxford: Berghahn Books.. ISBN 978-1-78533-150-3
Article
Philogene Heron, Adom. 2019. When ‘blood speaks’: naming the father and the mystics of kinship in Dominica, Eastern Caribbean. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 25(1), pp. 29-50. ISSN 1359-0987
Philogene Heron, Adom. 2018. Surviving Maria from Dominica: Memory, Displacement and Bittersweet Beginnings. Transforming Anthropology, 26(2), pp. 118-135. ISSN 1051-0559
Philogene Heron, Adom. 2018. Review of Nicole C. Bourbonnais, Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean: Reproductive Politics and Practice on Four Islands, 1930-1970. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, 92(3/4), ISSN 1382-2373
