My current work examines Black geographical epistemologies and the reproduction of spaces of flourish for Black communal life. As part of this work, I try to make sense of the ways in which memory, care, fugitivity, marronage, and repair inform Black people's work to create spaces of flourish. The aim of this work is to clarify how notwithstanding pervasive antiblackness and a elaborate architecture of racialized violence and dispossession, Black people make life audaciously.
My wider and ongoing work also focuses on the Caribbean, and explores the uneven production of environmental risk, resilience, the legacies of colonialism, the replication of plantation logics, and matters of social justice. In this work I have centered the politics of emergency response and reconstruction in the aftermath of hurricanes. The Caribbean, I argue, is a crucial space for understanding the histories of African diaspora and Black Atlantic radical traditions and offer much for theorizing non-essentializing understandings of human-nature relationships and global ecological justice.
I situate my long-term research agenda within the tradition of critical human-environmental geography. Informed by engagement with social theory, including decolonial and postcolonial thought, critical human-environmental geography provides research frameworks to connect my concerns with global economic and environmental change, to environmental justice, race, and power. My approach to critical human-geography, draws on Black geographies and ecologies, environmental sociology and political ecology. While most of my field research has been conducted in Jamaica, I have also undertaken field research in the Dominica, Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and South Africa.