I is for Inequalities

The ‘I’ in GOSSIP – addressing inequalities

When our research group was formed, we spent some time considering our name. We wanted to capture the different strands that weave us together. We are an interdisciplinary group with many members embedded in Geography, but some of us focus on the field of enquiry and practice Of Sustainability. We are all interested in Society, working either in the social sciences or humanities, and we all in one way or another had a normative interest in addressing Inequalities and considering Possibilities for fairer, greener futures.

We demonstrate here our longstanding interests in Inequalities. GOSSIPers have been concerned about and actively working on race inequalities, development models, ethics, environmental justice and how our world would be enriched if we appreciated and employed a greater diversity of ontologies and knowledges.

Below we illustrate some of the specific outputs we have in relation to these topics. More can be found on the University pages of our members (see links from GOSSIPers page). We are also actively working on decolonising the curriculum and supporting sustainability in the curriculum.

 

Jo Sharp

 A Critical Resource for Ethical International Partnerships – co-author, booklet and electronic resource

Sharp J (2019) “Practicing subalternity? Nyerere’s Tanzania, the Dar School and postcolonial geopolitical imaginations” in T Jazeel and S Legg eds. Subaltern Geographies, University of Georgia Press.

Sharp J, Campbell P and Laurie E (2010) The violence of aid? Giving, power and active subjects in One World Conservatism. Third World Quarterly 31(7): 1125-1143

Sharp J (2009) Geographies of Postcolonialism: spaces of power and representation. Sage 

Briggs J and Sharp J (2004) Indigenous knowledges and development: a postcolonial caution. Third World Quarterly 25(4): 661-676.

 

Nina Laurie

Martín Brañas M., Schulz C., Águila Villacorta, M. Roucoux, K., Núñez Pérez, C., Laurie, N. Fabeine, M. Lawson, I., Davies A. (2019) Urarina identidad y memoria en la Cuenca del Río Chambira”(“Urarina Identity and memory in the Chambira Basin”) IIAP, Iquitos Peru 

Andolina, Robert, Nina Laurie and Sarah Radcliffe (2009) Indigenous Development in the Andes Culture, Power and Transnationalism. Duke University Press, Raleigh, Durham. 

Baillie Smith, M., Laurie, N., and Griffiths, M. (2018) South–South volunteering and development’ Geographical Journal, 184(2) 158-168 

Laurie, Nina, Diane Richardson, Meena Poudel, Shakti Samuha and Janet Townsend (2015) Anti-trafficking activism: collaborating on transforming citizenship Development in Practice , 25(4) 465-477 

Laurie, Nina and Alastair Bonnett (2002) Adjusting to Equity: The Contradictions of Neo–liberalism and the Search for Racial Equality in Peru Antipode 34(1) 28–52

 

Sharon Leahy

McKee, K., Pearce, A, & Leahy, S. (2020). The Unequal Impact of COVID-19 on Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and Refugee CommunitiesUK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence Blog.

Crawford, J., Mckee, K., & Leahy, S. (2020). The Right to Rent: Active resistance to evolving geographies of state regulation. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research44(3), 415-428.

Leahy, S., McKee, K., & Crawford, J. (2018). Generating confusion, concern, and precarity through the Right to Rent scheme in Scotland. Antipode50(3), 604-620.

Crawford, J., Leahy, S., & McKee, K. (2016). The Immigration Act and the ‘Right to Rent’: Exploring governing tensions within and beyond the state. People, Place and Policy. 10 (2), 114-125

Leahy, S. (2014). ‘Demonising discourse’: The Traveller Community’s struggle against the elite voice of RTÉ. Romani Studies24(2), 165-202.

 

Ife Okafor-Yarwood

Okafor-Yarwood, I. (2020). “The cyclical nature of maritime security threats: illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing as a threat to human and national security in the Gulf of Guinea” African Security: In press

Okafor-Yarwood, I and Belhabib, D. (2020). ‘The duplicity of the European Union Common Fisheries Policy in third countries: evidence from the Gulf of Guinea” Ocean and Coastal Management. 184, 11p., 104953

Okafor-Yarwood, I. (2019). “Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, and the complexities of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) for countries in the Gulf of Guinea. Marine Policy. 99, p.414-422.

Okafor-Yarwood, I. (2018). “The effects of oil pollution on the marine environment in the Gulf of Guinea – The Bonga oil field example”. Transnational Legal Theory. 9, 3-4, p.254-271.

Okafor-Yarwood, I. (2014). “Use of depleted uranium weapons in contemporary military interventions”. Asian Journal of Peacebuilding. 2, 1, 111-125p. 

 

Rehema White

Lecuyer, L., Calmé, S., Blanchet, F.G., Schmook, B., White, R.M. (2019) Factors affecting feelings of justice in biodiversity conflicts: towards fairer jaguar management in Calakmul, Mexico. Biological Conservation Biological Conservation 237: 133-144 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.06.017

Lecuyer, L., White, R.M., Schmook, B., Lemay, V. and Calmé, S. (2018) The construction of feelings of justice in environmental management: an empirical study of multiple biodiversity conflicts in Calakmul, Mexico.  Journal of Environmental Management 213: 363-373

East, M. and White, R.M. (2016) Reflecting on the Emergence of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: A Call for Action in Scotland. Report for Scottish Government and COSLA. pp55

White, R.M. (2013) Sustainability research: a novel mode of knowledge generation to explore alternative ways for people and planet. Chapter in The Sustainable University: Progress and prospects. Ed. Sterling, S., Maxey, L., Luna, H. Abingdon: Routledge.