Selected Publications
Capture Land as Abolition Geography: The Mutuality of Placemaking and Flight. Special Issue: Desirable Futures. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. LINK
What Lies Here, beyond Boundary? Themed Section: Postnationalism Prefigured @20. Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. 73(3): 76–82 LINK
“What does Capital Consume? Racial Capitalism and the Social Reproduction of Surplus People.” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. (in press).
Reproducing the Plot: Making Life in the Shadow of Premature Death. Special Issue: Outside the Wage. Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography. 55(4): 985-1295. LINK
Capture Land: Anti-Squatting Policy as Processual Land Grab in Jamaica. In Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing. Andreas Neef, Chanrith Ngin, Tsegaye Moreda, and Sharlene Mollett, editors. 65-80. New York: Routledge. LINK
infrastructure at the edge of the “formal”
Selected PresentationS
2022. Panelist and Chair. Black Geographies, Racial Capitalism and the Caribbean. With Beverley Mullings and Melanie Newton. Intersections Series [Colloquium]. Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto.
2022. Invited Paper. Symposium on Charles Carnegie’s Post-nationalism Prefigured: Caribbean Borderlands. University of Virginia. LINK
2022. Invited Paper. “Jamaican Chattel Houses & the Historical Presence of Precarious Tenure.” Architectural Histories of the Greater Caribbean. University of Texas at Austin.
2022. Invited Panelist. PLANTATION AFTER/LIVES: Roots, Routes, and Relations. Symposium hosted by Department of African and African Diaspora Studies and Native American and Indigenous Studies. University of Texas at Austin.
2022. Co-authored Paper. “‘Introduction” with denisse andrade. Session titled “Troubling the Waters.” Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers.
2022. Paper. “The State, The Enforcer, The Squatter: All Black?” Session titled “Troubling the Waters.” Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers.
2022. Introduction. Author Meets Critics session for Urbanism Without Guarantees by Christian Anderson. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers.
2021. Invited Talk. “Plot as Freedom Practice.” Making Space lecture series hosted by the School of Urban Planning. McGill University.
2021. Paper. “A Spatial Dialectic of Freedom.” Session titled “Desirable Futures: Time as Possibility, Practice, Politics.” Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers.
2021. Invited Panelist. Author Meets Critic session for Scammer’s Yard by Jovan Scott Lewis. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers.
2020. Invited Panelist. with Andil Gosine, Donna Ashamock and Ali Kazimi (moderator). Michael Baptista Lecture Series: “Fly Me to the Moon: Imagining a Future Beyond Extraction.” Sponsored by the Centre for Research on Latin American and the Caribbean. York University. LINK
2020. Paper. “The Plot: Sustain, Refuse, Plan.” Session titled “Plantation (hacienda) Futures in Texas, Jamaica, and Mexico: Placemaking in the context of Black (Un)visibility and Economic Coloniality.” at the Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.
2019. Paper. “Squat, Kite, Bike: Blackness as Threat to the Land.” Session titled “Blackness, Crisis, Creation” at the Caribbean Studies Association Conference. Santa Marta, Colombia.
2019. Paper. “Wake Work and Capital's Littoral Edge: Black beyond Property.” Multi-session thread titled “Outside the wage: Seeing politics and possibilities with critical comparisons.” Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers. Washington D.C.
2019. Invited Talk. “Disciplining Space.” Hosted by the Department of Architecture, Tyler School of Art. Temple University.
2019. Paper. “Wasting Paradisiacal Landscapes: Blackness as Environmental Threat,” Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference. University of Kentucky.
2018. Paper. “Living Black Land: Informal Settlements and the Jamaican State,” Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference. University of Texas at Austin.
an instrument for recollection [remembering, regathering, recuperating] architectural thesis
About
Rachel Goffe is a geographer and a licensed architect, working at the intersections of place-making, livelihood and the state regulation of space. Broadly, her research aims to understand transformations of the postcolonial state by examining the shifting boundaries between formal and informal relationships to land and livelihood. Her fieldwork focuses on the encounter between recent policy to curtail squatting and traditions of Black life that emerged through durable yet insecure possession of small parcels of land in Jamaica, where she is from originally. Dr. Goffe earned a Bachelor of Architecture from Temple University and a Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is Assistant Professor at University of Toronto in the Departments of Human Geography (UTSC), Geography and Planning, and an affiliate of the Women and Gender Studies Institute.