This paper contributes to the growing literature on methods and techniques for conducting qualitative research in economic geography, as well recent feminist debates impact that relationships of power between researchers their informants have rigor findings research. Drawing upon my own experiences whilst interviews with managers workers information processing companies Jamaica, I will examine ways inter-cultural perceptions, interactions representations influenced fieldwork process,...

How, in the present, have lands of no one emerged and normalized a mode organizing planet according to life lifelessness?-Katherine McKittrick (2013, 8) He was staring out at impounded waters Artibonite.They stretched off east west sight among mountains.From here amount land dam had drowned seemed vast.Still gazing, [Paul] Farmer said, "To understand Russia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Boston, identity politics, Sri Lanka Life Savers, you be on top this hill."The list clearly jocular.So his...

ABSTRACT Influenced by the recognition of social and economic value migrant exchanges, shift to a Post-Washington Consensus, rise India China as emerging economies – 'Diaspora option' is becoming significant component development strategies countries with large populations across Africa, Latin America Caribbean, Asia Eastern Europe. In this paper we examine political economy within which Diaspora option has emerged broader implications discursive material ways that migrants are being...

Abstract: Drawing on governmentality debates, I argue that skilled members of the Jamaican diaspora are becoming important actors in an ongoing development strategy to extend rationality market into everyday social relations and institutions. Diaspora imagined by states institutions be ideal partners because their access potentially lucrative business, knowledge capital networks, desire direct them towards socially transformative ends. But, as shall demonstrate, efforts incorporate émigrés...

Abstract In an attempt to boost its stock of human capital and access global flows investment, knowledge innovation, the Jamaican state has begun turn skilled members diaspora as a vital untapped economic resource. State strategies accumulate within diaspora, however, raise questions about culture labour markets their effects on enhancement transfer knowledge. Drawing market experiences currently living island, I explore possibilities limits that network offer for capturing, transforming...

Key Messages Mental health and wellness are issues of growing concern on North American campuses. A feminist geography perspective reveals that there cultural, institutional, political, intersectional factors impede active engagement with mental in the academy. We encourage geographers to consider as professional development us all.

Key Messages There is a crisis of mental health in the academy. This special issue, first to address this crisis, brings together three bodies research: geographers' understanding relationship between health, social space, and material places; initiatives higher education; neoliberalization In introduction we discuss two particular foci: defining wellbeing neoliberalizing universities, institutional individual responses. Watch video presentation Special Issue

Since the late 1980s, Jamaican government has sought to develop industry based on export of information processing services such as data-entry and telemarketing. Such make it possible for firms in industrialized countries import computerized be used their operations from developing a fraction cost "at home." Export these Jamaica provided employment many women who might otherwise not have found work. The low wages, harsh working conditions, lack occupational mobility that come characterize...

Since the 1980s Jamaican state has systematically withdrawn from investments geared towards enhancing social and psychological welfare of its citizens, shifting responsibility cost for education, health care socialization dependent members society to households communities. This shift in reproduction disproportionately negatively affected women, who have traditionally assumed primary this necessary component capitalist systems. Throughout 1990s, Jamaicans, primarily successfully rendered a...

Diaspora remittances are a faithful source of capital, vital social safety net and local economic investment for many households, communities states across the Caribbean. But recent efforts by powerful interests to exercise control over these flows capital beginning threaten continuity accessibility this lifeline. As financial institutions, fiscally constrained governments imperializing have become increasingly attuned value Caribbean remittances, so too their gain volume flow private...

The visibility of Caribbean women in occupational positions and workspaces once reserved for men people European descent the raises new challenges to theorization transforming relationship between gender global capitalism. To what extent are these changes professional managerial recruitment practices finance banking industry constitutive a capitalism patriarchy? Does increased number organizational that they were excluded from indicate challenge forms inequality region? This article argues...

Drawing on the way international financial institutions, development organizations, and state have "discovered" investment possibilities of diasporic populations, this essay suggests new directions for a reinvigorated approach to Caribbean studies, one that is well placed historicize ways diaspora approached, can also engage reflexively with how contributions in field created conditions possibility current official romance diaspora.

In this article we reflect on questions of mentorship for racialized scholars within the increasingly neoliberal academic landscapes that currently navigate. We do by revisiting one earliest articles mentoring from a feminist perspective, and reflecting extent to which requirements have changed as number composition in geography has grown. Our retrospective is motivated co-authored emerged 1998 panel session at Association American Geographers form praxis. Within context an academy become...

Drawing on GenUrb's comparative research undertaken in mid-2020 with communities five cities—Cochabamba, Bolivia, Delhi, India, Georgetown, Guyana, Ibadan, Nigeria, and Shanghai, China—we engage an intersectional analysis of the gendered impacts Covid-19 pandemic women's everyday lives. Our employs a variety context-specific methods, including virtual phone interviews, socially-distanced interviews to women living neighbourhoods characterized by underdevelopment economic insecurity. While...

With the increasing role of services activities in economic growth industrialized countries, and failure manufacturing sector to create sustainable forms development, many Caribbean policymakers have become interested that these might play region's development. It is hoped by designing ‘service-based’ industrialization trade strategies economies be able re-create comparative advantages lost sector. At a time when islands are orienting their towards export services, it important examine...

Abstract Despite dramatic increases in university graduates over the last 30 years, unemployment rates among youth with advanced education Turkey remain some of highest world. With levels almost equal that high school graduates, promise social mobility and formal waged work higher once promised, no longer holds credibility. Many young people, instead find themselves waithood—a state characterised by uncertainty, joblessness, obstacles to independent adulthood. Studies tend view waithood...

Commentary:Post-Colonial Encounters of the Methodological Kind Beverley Mullings (bio) In his book Wretched Earth, Franz Fanon (1968) argued that colonial world was divided into a system compartments which if closely examined would reveal lines force it implied. He this approach to world, its ordering and geographical layout, allow us demarcate on decolonized society be reorganized. Although not specifically addressing issue research methodology, I find observations useful in thinking about...

Peter Saunders has argued that Britain, and other countries, are seeing the emergence of a major new consumption cleavage between those who pay for private provision through market rely on state provision. In this paper thesis is examined by looking at changes in residential care elderly Britain. It although there been rapid growth during 1980s, inappropriate number reasons. First, as with education health, residents do not own means but their use. Second, no evidence quality better sector...