SUNDAY 4 MARCH, 2018 – UWI TODAY
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CAMPUS NEWS
Ten years ago, Professor PatriciaMohammed
envisioned
the Institute for Gender and Development Studies as the
primary repository of Caribbean feminist scholarship,
providing a vehicle through which gender students,
scholars and academics could publish work in the field.
The Caribbean Review of Gender Studies (CRGS)
emerged.
In moving immediately to online publishing, the
CRGS becameThe UWI’s first online, open access journal.
Drawing on the experience of a US Fulbright scholar, Diana
Fox, who had pioneered a similar journal in this field,
the CRGS review process was modelled on international
standards in journal publishing. It is a fully peer-reviewed
journal that encourages and stimulates cross-cultural
exchanges among Caribbean peoples within the region,
partners with those in the Caribbean Diaspora, and brings
those with a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective
to bear on Caribbean and global gender and feminist
concerns.
The CRGS offers a forum to persons already recognised
in the field, as well as to new scholars, to present work which
is easily accessible and available to students and to readers as
far and as wide as the internet reaches.The works published
in the CRGS capture the realities and contradictions of what
is constituted as Caribbean, whether it is generated within
or outside of the geographical region. For new scholars
who seek to re-chart the terrain, the journal welcomes
scholarship and creative work done within the framework
of feminist and gender theorising that is for and about the
Caribbean.
Since its inception, the CRGS has published 11 issues
and worked with 18 guest editors, whose issues cover
themes such as sexual desires, rights and regulations,
Indo-Caribbean feminisms, challenges to contemporary
Caribbean feminist theorising, fragility and persistence of
dominant masculinities, and gender and public policy in the
Caribbean. Its management has changed and expanded to
include Dr Gabrielle Hosein, current head of the Institute
for Gender and Development Studies, as the second
Executive Editor, with Donna Drayton, replaced by Tivia
Collins, IGDS graduate student as Editorial Assistant. We
also are dedicated to graduate research, and we encourage
and support the publication of works from graduate
students fromThe University of the West Indies, across all
three campuses, and graduate students from international
universities.
The commitment to advancing Caribbean scholarship
in the field of gender is evident in the consistent reach
to over 3000 new readers each year for the past four
years, with users accessing the journal in countries such
as Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Guyana, Canada, the
United Kingdom, India and Germany. This speaks to the
kinds of connections the CRGS makes with Caribbean and
international scholars, activists and young academics, and
the importance of centring what Caribbean scholars have to
say about gender studies in this precociously settled space.
The Caribbean Review of Gender Studies is hosted
on The UWI web page and is accessible through the url:
Ten years of
The Caribbean Review of Gender Studies
