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Biography

I am a critical food geographer who uses ethnographic, oral history, archival, and arts-based methods to collaborate with Black and Indigenous scholar-activists, artists, academics and young people from the Caribbean in food and climate justice research.

Research Interests

Latin America and the Caribbean; Afrodescendant and Indigenous food heritage; food and climate justice; decolonial and co-creative methods; agrarian change; alternative food networks; transnational sugar histories; moral economies and moral economy research 

Research Groups

Geography of Social Justice Research Group, Cultural and Historical Geography Research Group, Sustainable Rural and Agricultural Development Research Group (University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, steering group member), Centre for Contemporary Latin American Studies

Websites

Caribbean Food for Climate Research Group:

Caribbean Food for Climate Justice website

 

Living Histories of Sugar project, network and performance:

Living Histories of Sugar website

Media

Research in a nutshell video: 

Research in a nutshell (from 2021)

 

Education/Academic qualification

Social Anthropology, Doctor of Social Science, University of Oxford

Award Date: 30 Jun 2009

Social Anthropology, Master of Social Science, University of Oxford

Award Date: 30 Jun 2004

Social and Cultural Anthropology, Bachelor of Literature or Bachelor of Letters, University of California, Berkeley

Award Date: 30 Jun 2002

English Literature, Bachelor of Social Science, University of California, Berkeley

Award Date: 30 Jun 2002

Keywords

  • G Geography (General)
  • HB Economic Theory
  • GN Anthropology
  • GT Manners and customs
  • S Agriculture (General)
  • JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
  • F1201 Latin America (General)
  • JF Political institutions (General)
  • GE Environmental Sciences

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