Description:
Through interconnected perspectives on environment, gender inequality, identity and Caribbean spatial re-colonisation influences on social, cultural and environmental landscapes, The Inequity of Caribbean Spaces and Designed Places: Race, Class and Gender examines socio-spatial (in)justices beyond physical and geographical boundaries that Caribbean societies face.
Brief description:
Ian Bethell-Bennett is a professor of English, adjunct in the School of Social Sciences, and former dean of Liberal and Fine Arts at the University of The Bahamas. He participated in National Exhibition 7, NE8, NE9, NE 10 as well as in 2018 Double Dutch Hot Water with Plastico Fantastico, and Evolution of the Arc. He has co-edited Tourism, Governance and Sustainability in The Bahamas (Routledge, 2020) with Sophia Rolle and Jessica Minnis and Pandemics, Disasters, Sustainability, Tourism: An Examination of Impact on and Resilience in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (Emerald 2022) with Minnis, Rolle and Fevzi Okuus.
Review Quotes:
"It is a very important contribution to cultural and development studies and other fields - and will, without doubt, find its way to teaching and research bibliographies." - Tom Selwyn, Research Associate at SOAS and a Visiting Professor at Breda University, The Netherlands, and Bethlehem University