Of “madness,” against Babylon: A story of resistance, (mis)representation, and paradox in the Caribbean

Greenidge, Adaeze; Gahman, Levi

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102188

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“…Mainstream scholarship has an equally long history of erasure followed by ‘wonder’-filled rediscovery of Black presence (McKittrick, 2006: 93; see also Sweet, 2021 on the erasure of Black and Indigenous histories in Mexico), and particularly of Black women’s political leadership (Covington-Ward, 2021). Therefore, the work of documenting the changing spatialities of Black women’s creative activism is still key (Greenidge and Gahman, 2020). Despite the globalised instantaneity of digital translocal interconnectivity, timelags remain an important feature of transnational Black Feminist practice.…”

Section: Changing Spatio-temporalities Of Black Feminist Geographiesmentioning

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Geographies of race and ethnicity II: Black Feminist Geographies

Noxolo

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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This second report on Geographies of Race and Ethnicity considers new developments in Black Feminist Geographies. It considers the spatio-temporal extensiveness of Black Feminist Geographies. It joins calls for more powerfully critical versions of intersectionality in Geography, using in/security as a means of conceptualising forms of negotiative agency. The article then considers the epistemic challenges posed by decolonial Black Feminisms, particularly from African writers. Finally, the article notes that Black Feminist Geographies are a locus for witnessing and honouring the complex humanity of the disproportionately large number of Black people who have died untimely deaths. To survive is a promise.

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Section: Changing Spatio-temporalities Of Black Feminist Geographiesmentioning

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Geographies of race and ethnicity II: Black Feminist Geographies

Noxolo

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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“…Whilst the vast majority of the nation states in the Caribbean have been purportedly independent since the 1960s–1970s, they are marked by a particularly interesting, that is, paradoxical, type of political sovereignty and experience of development (Greenidge and Gahman 2020 ). Noted Caribbean Marxist scholar Norman Girvan ( 2015 ) argued for decades that ‘decolonization’ in the region remains incomplete.…”

Section: ‘Development’ In the Caribbeanmentioning

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Disaster, Debt, and ‘Underdevelopment’: The Cunning of Colonial-Capitalism in the Caribbean

2021

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This article provides a critical overview of the structural forces exacerbating risk related to disasters in the Caribbean. It focuses on the historical antecedents and socio-environmental consequences of extreme weather events across the region via an anti-colonial analysis of Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017 and Dorian in 2019. The authors contend that the logics, practices and debts of colonial-capitalist development, neoliberal exploitation and post-independence corruption continue to reduce resilience and threaten public health in the region. They also detail the role that political economy and social geography play in the face of disasters. They end by proposing that future critiques of and solutions to vulnerability, disaster, and catastrophe in the Caribbean be more attentive to the historical trajectories of imperialism, debt and ‘underdevelopment’.

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“…Small Island Developing States [SIDS] in the OECS) (Jost et al, 2016; Mehar et al, 2016; Nelson & Huyer, 2016). Moreover, as a host of Caribbean researchers and theorists have established, the region continues to be marked and marred by patriarchal social relations, racial hierarchies and class divisions that foreclose the life chances of women and overdetermine their material conditions; participation (or lack thereof) in political processes; and (in)ability to both define and shape local economies (Green, 2001; Greenidge & Gahman, 2020; Hosein & Outar, 2016; Momsen, 1993).…”

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Food system and social reproduction realities for women in agriculture across the Caribbean: Evidence from Grenada, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Barry

Gahman

2021

Journal of Agrarian Change

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This article provides evidence of the food system challenges and structural barriers faced by women farmers and food producers in the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States. The aim of the piece is to add to critical literatures on political economy, development and food systems in the Majority World via recognizing the political agency of rural grassroots women in the Caribbean. To do so, we focus on the role that social reproduction has in the lives of working Caribbean women who are engaged in agricultural production. The analysis we offer was generated via a mix‐method project that included 111 farmers and agro‐processors from Grenada, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. We deliberately centre the perspectives of Afrodescendant rural women. Our study reveals the main barriers faced by women in agriculture are lack of access to land, concessions and capital; non‐gender responsive Agricultural Extension Services; an absence of national and sectorial gender policies; and ongoing dismissals of the time and effort that goes into unwaged socially reproductive labour. In illustrating these realities, we cast light on how the barriers faced by women food producers in the OECS are inextricably linked to persistent colonial‐plantation relations, patriarchal social norms and liberal‐capitalist logics.

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Of “madness,” against Babylon: A story of resistance, (mis)representation, and paradox in the Caribbean

Cited by 8 publications

References 19 publications

Geographies of race and ethnicity II: Black Feminist Geographies

Geographies of race and ethnicity II: Black Feminist Geographies

Disaster, Debt, and ‘Underdevelopment’: The Cunning of Colonial-Capitalism in the Caribbean

Food system and social reproduction realities for women in agriculture across the Caribbean: Evidence from Grenada, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines

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