About

I am a geographer and a licensed architect. My work is concerned with place-making, livelihood and how these aspects of life are shaped through, and in tension with, public policy. My research is primarily sited in Jamaica where I am from originally and has focused on the encounter between recent policy to curtail squatting and Caribbean radical traditions that emerged through durable yet insecure tenure to small plots of land. My current research investigates the exclusion of Jamaicans from their coastlines amidst the rapidly expanding tourism industry. The project seeks to document the social, spiritual, ecological and healing relationship with the Sea as the basis for reenvisioning the Caribbean as a continuous terraqueous zone. While my work is sited in Jamaica, it aims to intervene in theories regarding incomplete enclosure and racial capitalism, social reproduction, and abolition geographies.