Francio Guadeloupe

Guadeloupe's work can be described as a scholarship of possibilities seeking to undo the guiding fictions of "race", sexism, and the naturalization of class hierarchies that have become entrenched in our thinking, behavior, and institutional arrangements.

His method is best captured in this axiom translated from a Dutch article published in the journal Sociale Vraagstukken in 2012: I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on not doing.

In Guadeloupe's reading, Christianity and Marxism are both products of planetary creolization: the clash of the peoples of the earth leading to agonistic borrowings and transpositions, as such they are cosmopolitan rather than European and Middle Eastern traditions.

Marxism and Liberation Theology are common names for the Social Question and the continuous interrogation of Being and Becoming that meet other traditions such as those concerned with racism and patriarchy.

One finds a succinct expose of Guadeloupe's philosophy of science in his video message on the Wake UP call interview [2] and its translation in a book on nation building on Sint Maarten[3]