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March 2020 was a game changer. In one fell swoop our worlds were turned upside down by a viral pandemic that no one could have anticipated a year before. The novel coronavirus and COVID-19 amplifie...
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Published a decade after the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks, by Valentine Moghadam, provides a detailed examination of the emergence of transnational feminist... more
Published a decade after the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks, by Valentine Moghadam, provides a detailed examination of the emergence of transnational feminist networks, the neoliberal globalizing processes ...
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Since the late 1980s, the Jamaican government has sought to develop industry based on the export of information processing services such as data-entry and telemarketing. Such services make it possible for firms in industrialized countries... more
Since the late 1980s, the Jamaican government has sought to develop industry based on the export of information processing services such as data-entry and telemarketing. Such services make it possible for firms in industrialized countries to import computerized information to ...
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This essay considers how the historical production of the Caribbean as a space of relative surplus populations is implicated in contemporary efforts to criminalize and contain flows of finance across its borders. Extending a key theme in... more
This essay considers how the historical production of the Caribbean as a space of relative surplus populations is implicated in contemporary efforts to criminalize and contain flows of finance across its borders. Extending a key theme in Jovan Scott Lewis’s Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica (2020)—the crime of poverty—the essay explores how emerging anti–money laundering / combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regulatory policies are changing the terrain of struggle to recuperate and repudiate the devaluation of Black life in the Caribbean. It argues that difficult conversations about the processes that continue to produce the Caribbean as a racialized space of devalued surplus labor are needed nationally, regionally, and internationally before the region can truly embark on the road toward Black repair.
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Abstract With the increasing role of services activities in the economic growth of industrialized countries, and the failure of the manufacturing sector to create sustainable forms of development, many Caribbean policymakers have become... more
Abstract With the increasing role of services activities in the economic growth of industrialized countries, and the failure of the manufacturing sector to create sustainable forms of development, many Caribbean policymakers have become interested in the role that ...
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Abstract What can historical and contemporary labour geographies from the Caribbean tell us about social reproduction in a world of automation, precarity and free market fundamentalism? I argue in this article that juxtaposing 18th–19th... more
Abstract What can historical and contemporary labour geographies from the Caribbean tell us about social reproduction in a world of automation, precarity and free market fundamentalism? I argue in this article that juxtaposing 18th–19th century Caribbean labour geographies, with the free-market fundamentalisms, labour eradicating technologies and environmental disasters that define 21st century labour struggles, offers ways of thinking about how lives are made within capitalist systems, that overcome the traditional separation of the productive and reproductive work required to do so. Juxtaposing the social infrastructures that emerged from the practices of early unfree workers in the Caribbean with those produced by low income communities today, I trace continuities in the ways that people in situations of extreme precarity engage with space in order to exercise control over their labour. This article offers a number of provocations that aim to unsettle the theoretical separation of social reproduction from economic production, introduce insights into labour geographies beyond the worlds of formal organized labour and the formal economy itself, and to situate the Caribbean as a space of theory making that offers lessons for futures yet to come.
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The visibility of Caribbean women in occupational positions and workspaces once reserved for men and for people of European descent in the Caribbean raises new challenges to the theorization of the transforming relationship between gender... more
The visibility of Caribbean women in occupational positions and workspaces once reserved for men and for people of European descent in the Caribbean raises new challenges to the theorization of the transforming relationship between gender and global capitalism. To what extent are ...
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Abstract Housing investment like housing policy has traditionally operated with the assumption, that the outcomes of policy will have the same effect on black households as it will for white. Investment therefore has tended to ignore the... more
Abstract Housing investment like housing policy has traditionally operated with the assumption, that the outcomes of policy will have the same effect on black households as it will for white. Investment therefore has tended to ignore the impact of racial discrimination on ...
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Influenced by the recognition of the social and economic value of migrant exchanges, the shift to a Post-Washington Consensus, and the rise of India and China as emerging economies – the ‘Diaspora option’ is becoming a significant... more
Influenced by the recognition of the social and economic value of migrant exchanges, the shift to a Post-Washington Consensus, and the rise of India and China as emerging economies – the ‘Diaspora option’ is becoming a significant component of the development strategies of countries with large migrant populations across Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and Eastern Europe. In this paper we examine the political economy within which the Diaspora option has emerged and the broader implications of the discursive and material ways that migrants are being incorporated as professionalized partners in development. Drawing on a case study of the World Bank's Africa Diaspora Program we examine the underlying assumptions, ideologies and silences upon which this policy option rests. We conclude that the emerging Diaspora option should be approached more critically because the current celebration of these strategies obscures the selective and narrow neoliberal orientation; the assumptions that they make about the nature of diasporic engagement, and their increasing reliance on migrant populations to shoulder the investment risks associated with social transformation.
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me want to explore this area further. Yet, this book did not help me to understand how centuries-old custom, tradition, and law have influenced the approach of Islamic states in working with the West and the war on terror today. Thus, one... more
me want to explore this area further. Yet, this book did not help me to understand how centuries-old custom, tradition, and law have influenced the approach of Islamic states in working with the West and the war on terror today. Thus, one has to look to the excellent bibliography for other works that could help one to understand these important influences. This book is appreciated and a step in the right direction. Much more dialogue and study needs to be undertaken before the West can understand the East. Centuries ago Pope Julius III recalled the burdens of office with these words: “Do you know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?”
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Diaspora remittances are a faithful source of capital, a vital social safety net and a source of local economic investment for many households, communities and states across the Caribbean. But recent efforts by powerful interests to... more
Diaspora remittances are a faithful source of capital, a vital social safety net and a source of local economic investment for many households, communities and states across the Caribbean. But recent efforts by powerful interests to exercise control over these flows of capital are beginning to threaten the continuity and accessibility of this lifeline. As financial institutions, fiscally constrained governments and imperializing states have become increasingly attuned to the value of Caribbean remittances, so too have their efforts to gain control over the volume and flow of these private transfers of funds. For governments, remittances promise the possibility of access to funds that can be used to bridge finance gaps, and among financial institutions they offer opportunities to generate profits from the cross-border movement of money. But for imperializing states, remittances are increasingly viewed as a potential threat to their efforts to control the movement of money. I argue that these different and sometimes conflicting views of remittances reflect the complex forms of coloniality and racial subjugation that continue to reproduce economies of dispossession.
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Drawing on GenUrb’s comparative research undertaken in mid-2020 with communities in five cities—Cochabamba, Bolivia, Delhi, India, Georgetown, Guyana, Ibadan, Nigeria, and Shanghai, China— we engage in an intersectional analysis of the... more
Drawing on GenUrb’s comparative research undertaken in mid-2020 with communities in five cities—Cochabamba, Bolivia, Delhi, India, Georgetown, Guyana, Ibadan, Nigeria, and Shanghai, China— we engage in an intersectional analysis of the gendered impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic in women’s everyday lives. Our research employs a variety of context-specific methods, including virtual methods, phone interviews, and socially-distanced interviews to engage women living in neighbourhoods characterized by under-development and economic insecurity. While existing conditions of precarity trouble the before-and-after terminology of Covid-19, across the five cities the narratives of women’s everyday lives reveal shifts in spatial-temporal orders that have deepened gendered and racial exclusions. We find that limited mobilities and the different and changing dimensions of production and social reproduction have led to increased care work, violence, and strained mental health. Finally, we also find that social reproduction solidarities, constituting old and new circuits of care, have been reinforced during the pandemic.
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Diaspora remittances are a faithful source of capital, a vital social safety net and a source of local economic investment for many households, communities and states across the Caribbean. But recent efforts by powerful interests to... more
Diaspora remittances are a faithful source of capital, a vital social safety net and a source of local economic investment for many households, communities and states across the Caribbean. But recent efforts by powerful interests to exercise control over these flows of capital are beginning to threaten the continuity and accessibility of this lifeline. As financial institutions, fiscally constrained governments and imperializing states have become increasingly attuned to the value of Caribbean remittances, so too have their efforts to gain control over the volume and flow of these private transfers of funds. For governments, remittances promise the possibility of access to funds that can be used to bridge finance gaps, and among financial institutions they offer opportunities to generate profits from the cross-border movement of money. But for imperializing states, remittances are increasingly viewed as a potential threat to their efforts to control the movement of money. I argue th...
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Jamaica's Information Processing Services: Neoliberal Niche or Structural Limitation? Beverley Mullings In 1986, as part of its program of structural adjustment, the Jamaican gov-ernment pledged its commitment to the development of a... more
Jamaica's Information Processing Services: Neoliberal Niche or Structural Limitation? Beverley Mullings In 1986, as part of its program of structural adjustment, the Jamaican gov-ernment pledged its commitment to the development of a new service industry based on the export of ...
March 2020 was a game changer. In one fell swoop our worlds were turned upside down by a viral pandemic that no one could have anticipated a year before. The novel coronavirus and COVID-19 amplifie...
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This paper contributes to the growing literature on methods and techniques for conducting qualitative research in economic geography, as well as to recent feminist debates on the impact that relationships of power between researchers and... more
This paper contributes to the growing literature on methods and techniques for conducting qualitative research in economic geography, as well as to recent feminist debates on the impact that relationships of power between researchers and their informants have on the rigor of the findings of qualitative research. Drawing upon my own experiences whilst conducting interviews with managers and workers in information processing companies in Jamaica, I will examine the ways that inter-cultural perceptions, interactions and representations influenced the fieldwork process, and their ultimate eect on my interpretation and writing of the final text. This paper includes that because of the dynamic way in which identities and their attendant power relations are created and transformed during business interviews, uncertainty will necessarily remain a residual in the evaluation and interpretation of information received. It argues that recognizing and naming these uncertainties is an important s...
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Abstract In this article we reflect on questions of mentorship for racialized scholars within the increasingly neoliberal academic landscapes that scholars currently navigate. We do this by revisiting one of the earliest articles on... more
Abstract In this article we reflect on questions of mentorship for racialized scholars within the increasingly neoliberal academic landscapes that scholars currently navigate. We do this by revisiting one of the earliest articles on mentoring from a feminist perspective, and reflecting on the extent to which mentorship requirements have changed as the number and composition of racialized scholars in geography has grown. Our retrospective is motivated by a co-authored article that emerged from a 1998 panel session at the Association of American Geographers on mentoring as a form of feminist praxis. Within the context of an academy that has become more competitive, increasingly precarious, and susceptible to anti-Black racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia and anti-Indigenous sentiment, we examine the unique set of challenges that Black, other racialized, and Indigenous scholars face in 21st century geography and what this means for mentoring practices.
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Series Editors Preface vi List of Abbreviations vii List of Figures and Tables ix Acknowledgements x 1 Introduction: Power and Difference in Global Production 1 2 Two Stories of Caribbean Development: Garments -as -Globalization and... more
Series Editors Preface vi List of Abbreviations vii List of Figures and Tables ix Acknowledgements x 1 Introduction: Power and Difference in Global Production 1 2 Two Stories of Caribbean Development: Garments -as -Globalization and Garments -as-Regional Entrepreneurialism 28 3 From Manufactura to Mentefactura? Gender and Industrial Restructuring in the Dominican Republic 54 4 Embodied Negotiations: Geographies of Work after Trade Zones 85 5 Reworking Coloniality through the Haitian Dominican Border 113 6 Haiti, the Global Factory and the Politics of Reconstruction 141 7 Unsettling Dominant Crisis Narratives of the Caribbean 163 8 Conclusion 181 Bibliography 187 Index 206
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Drawing upon recent initiatives to highlight issues of mental health in the academy we focus in this special issue on work by geographers from Canada, the United States, England, and New Zealand that aims to shed some light on the ways... more
Drawing upon recent initiatives to highlight issues of mental health in the academy we focus in this special issue on work by geographers from Canada, the United States, England, and New Zealand that aims to shed some light on the ways that the organized practices of the academy are implicated in the current state of mental health of a broad cross section of its members across university campuses. In bringing the perspectives of Geography graduate students and faculty to bear on questions of mental wellness, this special issue is unique in its attempt to bring together three bodies of research: geographers' understanding of the relationship between mental and emotional health, social space, and material places; mental health initiatives in institutions of higher education; and the neoliberalization of the academy. Drawing together review articles, interview-based research, collective writing, and personal narratives, the articles and viewpoints bring together understandings of the crisis of mental health and wellbeing in neoliberalizing universities, and institutional and individual responses. Reflexions critiques sur la formation d'une ethique du bien-etre en geographie Prenant appui sur les demarches entreprises recemment pour mettre en evidence les problemes de sante mentale dans le milieu universitaire, ce numero special se consacre aux travaux effectues par des geographes en provenance du Canada, des Etats-Unis, de l'Angleterre et de la Nouvelle-Zelande afin de jeter un eclairage sur le rapport entre les modes d'organisation du milieu universitaire et l'etat actuel de sante mentale d'un vaste echantillon du personnel en poste dans plusieurs campus universitaires. En degageant les perspectives des etudiants des cycles superieurs et des professeurs en geographie qui se penchent sur le bien-etre mental, ce numero special innove en proposant une synthese de trois champs de la connaissance scientifique : la comprehension par les geographes de la relation qui unit la sante mentale et emotionnelle, l'espace social et les lieux physiques ; les actions en sante mentale dans les etablissements d'enseignement superieur ; et la montee en puissance du neoliberalisme dans le milieu universitaire. Compose d'articles de fond, de recherches reposant sur des entrevues, d'ouvrages collectifs et de recits personnels, ce recueil propose une serie d'articles et de points de vue qui exposent une diversite d'idees sur la crise en sante mentale et bien-etre dans un contexte universitaire marque par le neoliberalisme, et sur les mesures prises par les etablissements et les individus.