I research the English-speaking Caribbean...

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

ANTHROPOLOGY

• Culture Contact: Trinidad “Pre-History”, Historical Representation and Multiculturalism (2012)
• White Supremacy versus Gangsterism on the Small-Goal Football Field (2012)
• Transnational Anti-Black Racism and State Violence in Trinidad (2015)
• Languaculture and grassroots football: “Small goal” in Trinidad​​ (2016)
• ‘Who ent dead, badly wounded’: The everyday life of pretty and grotesque bodies in urban Trinidad (2018)
• Love Is Love: The Recent Jason Jones Judgement in Trinidad and Tobago (2018)​
• ​Language-in-Use Living under Militarisation and Insecurity: How Securitisation Discourse Wounds Trinidad (Supplementary material here) (2018)
• The Gaols of Guyana: Hauntology and Trauma in the Soundscape of Prison (2021)​ 
• ‘Prison Officer Pains’: How And Why Coloniality Shapes the Job of a Prison Officer In Guyana Today (2024)

CRIMINOLOGY​

• Caribbean Judicial Dialogue: Securing Equality for All - The Evidence and Recommendations (2019)
• ​Crime, Gender and Sexuality in the Anglophone Caribbean (2019)
• Crime in Selected Caribbean Territories: Culture and Representation (2020)
  
• ​Bobol as Transhistorical Cultural Logic: The Coloniality of Corruption in Trinidad (2020)​
  
• Recording Keeping and the Management of Prisons in Guyana (2020)
• ​Contemporary Substance Use in Guyana: The Prison Context (2020)  
• Confronting Silences Haunting Guyana's Juvenile System (2021)
  
• Breaking Bad. Gangs, Masculinities and Murder in Trinidad (2022)
  
• Differentiating the local impact of global drugs and weapons trafficking: How do gangs mediate ‘residual violence’ to sustain Trinidad’s homicide boom? (2023)
  
• Doing Transdisciplinary Research in Guyana's Prisons (2024)
  

SOCIOLOGY 

• Individualism, Group Recognition and the Social Construction of Race on Reality TV (2011)
• “She look for it”: Young men, community violence, and gender in urban Trinidad (2019)
• Thin selves: popular psychology and the transnational moral grammar of self-identity (2020)
• Coloniality and Mental Health, Neurological and Substance Abuse (MNS) Disorders in Guyana's Prisons Today (2021)
• Therapeutic politics reconsidered: Power, post-colonialism and the psychologisation of society in the Global South (2022)
• Chronic and multidimensional conflict in Latin America and the Caribbean: An analysis from a peace and social cohesion perspective (2022)
• Re-Thinking Self-Optimisation: Power, Self, and Community in the Global South (2024) 

Academic Book Chapters and Reviews

ANTHROPOLOGY

• Indo-Caribbean Indenture: Resistance and Accommodation, 1838–1920, by Lomarsh Roopnarine​ - Caribbean Review of Books (2008)
• The return of the native: The Amerindians - Caribbean Review of Books (2010)
• Best of British: Bonds of Empire: West Indians and Britishness from Victoria to Decolonisation, by Anne Spry Rush - Caribbean Review of Books (2011)
• Human Trafficking and Forced Prostitution: A Channel Carrier of HIV​ - Working with Youth, Women and Children with HIV/Aids: Strategic Intervention for Inclusive Development (2013)
• Woodbrook on the Path to Independence - In the Fires of Hope: Trinidad and Tobago at 50 (2016)
• Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival - American Anthropologist (2018)
• Treasured moments​ - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (2018)
• Therapeutic technologies and Therapeutic institutions: Editor's Introduction -  The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures (2020)

 CRIMINOLOGY​

• White Collar Crime in Trinidad - Gangs in the Caribbean (2013)
• ​Crime, criminality and North-to-South criminological complexities: Theoretical implications for policing ‘hotspot’ communities in ‘underdeveloped’ countries’ - The Palgrave Handbook of Criminology and the Global South (2018)
• Therapeutic Jurisprudence in Trinidad and Tobago: Legitimacy, Inclusion and the Neo-colonialism of Procedural Justice​​ - The Routledge International Handbook of Global Therapeutic Cultures (2020)
• Exploring Alienation, Bias and Coloniality in twenty-first century Magistrates' Courts of Trinidad and Tobago - Decolonial Perspectives on Entangled Inequalities: Europe and The Caribbean (2021)

SOCIOLOGY 

• Antonio Gramsci by Antonio A. Santucci. Translated by Graziella DiMauro with Salvatore Engel-DiMauro - Marx & Philosophy Review of Books (2010)
• Capitalism and the Dialectic: The Uno-Sekine Approach to Marxian Political Economy, by John R. Bell - Capital and Class (2010)
• Only West Indians: Creole Nationalism in the British West Indies - Wadabagei (2010)
• Creole to the World: Globalisation and the Post-Creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation, by Michaeline A. Crichlow, with Patricia Northover - Caribbean Review of Books (2010)
• Make it New: The Thought of New World: The Quest for Decolonisation, ed. Brian Meeks and Norman Girvan​ - Caribbean Review of Books (2010)
• The biopolitics of colonial carcerality: Colonialism and its afterlife in prison historiography of Guyana - Carceral Worlds: Legacies, Textures and Futures (2024)
  
• Carceral Masculinities in the Caribbean, with a Focus on Belize, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago - Routledge Handbook of Caribbean Studies (2025)
  

Online Essays

• Savage Minds and the anthropological ground zero - Savage Minds
• Who has the power? - Pop Anth
• White Collar Crime and Everyday Corruption: From the Colonial to the Behavioural - Anthropoliteia
• The Financialisation of Academic Knowledge Production - Social Science Space
  
• The Other Side of Justice - Pop Anth
• The Sociological Imagination without W.E.B. Du Bois? - Bristol University Press
• Abolition and the Colonial Amnesia of Caribbean Prison Systems - MNS Guyana
• Interdisciplinary Working - MNS Guyana

Dissertation

American University, Washington, DC, USA - Ph.D., in Anthropology, ​2005 – 2010                ​
Dissertation: The Accumulation of Capital and the Shifting Construction of Difference: Examining the Relations of Colonialism, Post-colonialism and Neo-colonialism in Trinidad (please email me if you would like a copy)
Committee: William Leap (Chair), Brett Williams, David Vine