Listed below are some current projects within the Department.
Dr. Marisa Wilson conducted a research project which revealed how inequalities of access to food in Cuba are differentially justified according to the socio-spatial positioning of the consumer. It adds to debates in geography about themes such as alternative economic spaces and food networks, the limitations and potentialities of scalar representations like the nation state, and socio-spatial rationalities of sustainability.
This project responds to the need voiced in human geography for empirical evidence to unravel the political potentialities of everyday spaces in-between top-down and bottom-up forces. In addition to anthropological theory and method, geographer Roger Lee's (2006) concept of 'ordinary economies' or more appropriately, 'ordinary economic geographies', will be essential for the project.
Recent and current palaeo-environmental research projects of Prof. Paul Shaw include:
The University of the West Indies
St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
Tel: (868) 662-2002
Fax: (868) 663-9684
Department of Geography
Faculty of Food and Agriculture
UWI St. Augustine
Tel: (868) 662-2002 Ext. 84129
