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The views of space and place of people living in the Caribbean are different from Northern folk; Inequality is bound to socially constructed traits like race, gender, class, sexual orientation and other aspects of discrimination. Through interconnected perspectives on environment, gender inequality, identity and Caribbean spatial re-colonisation influences on social, cultural and environmental landscapes, The Inequity of Caribbean Spaces and Designed Places: Race, Class and Gender examines socio-spatial (in)justices beyond physical and geographical boundaries that Caribbean societies face.
“It is a very important contribution to cultural and development studies and other fields - and will, without doubt, find its way to teaching and research bibliographies.” • Tom Selwyn, Research Associate at SOAS and a Visiting Professor at Breda University, The Netherlands, and Bethlehem University
Ian Bethell-Bennett is a professor of English, adjunct in the School of Social Sciences, and former dean of Liberal and Fine Arts at the University of The Bahamas. He participated in National Exhibition 7, NE8, NE9, NE 10 as well as in 2018 Double Dutch Hot Water with Plastico Fantastico, and Evolution of the Arc. He has co-edited Tourism, Governance and Sustainability in The Bahamas (Routledge, 2020) with Sophia Rolle and Jessica Minnis and Pandemics, Disasters, Sustainability, Tourism: An Examination of Impact on and Resilience in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (Emerald 2022) with Minnis, Rolle and Fevzi Okuus.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Ian Bethell-Bennett and Jessica Minnis
Part I: Establishing Identity in Place and Space
Chapter 1. Puerto Rico’s Path Towards More Inclusive Notions of Identity and Social Justice: Notes from About Emerging Voices and Trends in the Twenty-First-Century Electoral Scene
Raymond Laureano-Ortiz
Chapter 2. The Impact of Colonialism on Identity, Education and Justice in St. Martin
Rhoda Arrindell
Chapter 3. ‘Raizality’ and the Meaning of ‘Being Home
Morgane Le Guyader
Chapter 4. Moving to the ‘Other’ Space: Reimagining Indo-Trinidadian Women’s Identity in Ramabai Espinet’s The Swinging Bridge
Mayuri Deka
Part II: Gender (In)Justices in Place and Space
Chapter 5. So You Went to Convent: Education, Social Mobility and Civil Society
Alison McLetchie
Chapter 6. ‘Small Up in the Space Lady!’ Gender, Space, Place and the Caribbean Catholic Church
Anna Kasafi Perkins
Chapter 7. Unmasking the Culture of Ignorance in The Bahamas
Natino Thompson
Chapter 8. Home, Space, Place, Violence, Gender: Does Violence Rest in Places?
Ian Bethell-Bennett
Part III: Environmental Dynamics in Place and Space
Chapter 9. Caribbean Falling and the Unsayable Real
Michael T. Stevenson
Chapter 10. The Uglification of Jamaica: A Question of Landscape Values
Brian Hudson
Part IV: Recolonialisation in Place and Space
Chapter 11. Engineering Space: How Place is Being Remade by New Understandings of Settler Colonies
Ian Bethell-Bennett
Chapter 12. Food Deserts: The Coloniality of Power and Spatial (In)Justice in The Bahamas
Ian Bethell-Bennett
Conclusion: Is This (Really) My Island in the Sun?
Ian Bethell-Bennett and Jessica Minnis
Index