Levi Gahman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 195828 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Levi Gahman |
| NOMBRES | Levi |
| APELLIDO | Gahman |
| FIRMA | GAHMAN L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0800-0246 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 105 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Caribbean street vending experiences
This article offers a critical overview of how South-South migration operates in the Caribbean. It represents an intersectional feminist analysis of the experiences of Guyanese migrant women who work as street vendors in Trinidad and Tobago. Via the use of narrative inquiry, the study examines the daily challenges migrant women face as they interact with state officials, police officers, customers, and other vendors. We also provide a summary of …
Feminist Development Justice as Emancipatory Praxis
This article offers a comprehensive overview of feminist development justice, a transformative framework designed to reduce global inequalities that is being advanced by the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law, and Development (APWLD). The piece aims to unsettle and expand mainstream development studies literature, which critical scholars argue remains plagued by Eurocentrism and ongoing colonial modes of knowledge production. Additionally, it advoc…
Snapshots of Maya Self-determination in Southern Belize
The lands of San Jose village, one of 41 Maya villages in southern Belize. (ALL PHOTOS BY ROBERTO KUS)MOPAN: Ulu’um San Jose, hump’eel tuyaam ah 41 peet tika’ ichiloo uyamil ahMaaya.Q’EQCHI’: Lix c
Alienation flows through the barrel of a gun
In what is now referred to by many as the United States, gun violence rages on. When one considers the country’s sheer number of annual gun deaths, the data is as overwhelming as it is distressing. Indeed, perhaps the only thing outpacing the trauma and loss of life wrought by gun violence is the anguish and grief of those who are impacted by it. Despite the shocking statistics and fervent calls for change, few efforts have been effective at curb…
Introduction
Critical consciousness and praxis
Gender justice and social reproduction
Chapter 8 focuses on how the domain of social reproduction is a necessary political terrain on which to organise for widespread change and just social relations. More expressly, the chapter demonstrates how social reproduction, which includes care work, community building, provisioning and all the work that perpetuates life, can be intentionally foregrounded as a strategic site of anti-capitalist, anti-colonial and anti-heteropatriarchal struggle…
A world where many worlds fit
Chapter 2 offers readers a detailed introduction to the Zapatistas and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN). It provides a genealogy of the Zapatista uprising in 1994, as well as expanding on how the movement continues to engage in resistance and is practising self-determination in the face of neoliberalism and authoritarian state power. The chapter also discusses some of the principles that …
Modernity-coloniality and Indigenous realities
Political education and radical pedagogy
Chapter 7 illustrates how Zapatista communities are placing dignity, collectivity, defiance and selflessness at the heart of their social relations, economy and autonomous education system. The chapter offers an insight into the genesis of the Zapatista rebellion along with a detailed overview of how grassroots political education operates in Zapatista communities. After historicising the EZLN’s uprising in 1994, the chapter demonstrates how Indi…
A battle for the soul of education
The coloniser’s model/neoliberal state of the world
Index
Health, food sovereignty, solidarity economies
Dispossession, extractivism and violence
A Beginner’s Guide to Building Better Worlds
This ambitious book offers radical alternatives to conventional ways of thinking about the planet’s most pressing challenges, ranging from alienation and exploitation to state violence and environmental injustice. Bridging real-world examples of resistance and mutual aid in Zapatista territory with big-picture concepts like critical consciousness, social reproduction and decolonisation, the authors encourage readers to view themselves as co-creat…
Land, race, and (slow) violence
This article, which has been informed by sustained engagement with an autonomous social movement and long-term participatory action research, offers a critical structural analysis of the Maya land struggle in Toledo District, Belize. We contend that state-sanctioned violations of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) reveal both the coloniality and misanthropic skepticism inherent in conventional ‘development’ agendas and the Westminster-model…
Unsettling orthodoxy via epistemological jailbreak
This article offers a critical overview of the coloniality of the broad fields of psychology and global mental health, as well as advocates anti-colonial approaches to childhood studies and wellness that move beyond Western frameworks and Eurocentric models. More specifically, by drawing upon transformative approaches to wellbeing being practiced by mental health promoters from the Caribbean who are committed to decolonisation, we propose, via th…
The violence of disavowing Indigenous governance
After decades of community mobilizing and a protracted legal battle, Maya villages in southern Belize won a watershed Indigenous land rights victory in the Caribbean Court of Justice in 2015. Since then, the state has criminalized environmental defenders, violated communal land rights, and is argued by Maya activists and alcaldes (village leaders) to be operating in discriminatory bad faith. Accordingly, this Grassroots article casts critical lig…
Desire over damage
This article offers an overview of an Indigenous-led participatory research project, The Future We Dream, co-developed by rural land defenders in Central America and the Caribbean. To engage in recent dialectics concerning complicity and decolonising methodologies, we centre Indigenous Maya conceptions of health, wellbeing and what 'living well' means to community members. For context, The Future We Dream responds to the 2015 landmark ruling made…
Food system and social reproduction realities for women in agriculture across the Caribbean
This article provides evidence of the food system challenges and structural barriers faced by women farmers and food producers in the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States. The aim of the piece is to add to critical literatures on political economy, development and food systems in the Majority World via recognizing the political agency of rural grassroots women in the Caribbean. To do so, we focus on the role that social reproduction has in th…
Joy Against the Machine, Building Better Futures
These flowers bring me joy. When I see them I remember how my parents and family and others treat me. It made me feel glad about my future in the world as a young girl. It looks bright––like how I
Land, God and Guns
Of “madness,” against Babylon
Land, God, and Guns
This book is an antidote to the forms of American nationalism, masculinity, exceptionalism, and self-anointed prowess that are currently being flexed on the global stage
Development justice, a proposal
This paper proposes that “development justice” be taken up as an analytical concept and praxis‐driven framework for research on disasters, resilience, and climate change. The piece begins with a synopsis of the historical‐structural factors exacerbating risk in the Caribbean before reviewing the concepts of vulnerability, resilience, and development justice. Next, drawing from empirical data and via a development justice lens, we highlight how th…
Gun rites
Drawing upon empirical data from a qualitative research project in Southeast Kansas, this paper employs feminist and decolonial theories to analyse the interlocking relationality of hegemonic masculinity, neoliberal ideology, social conservatism, rurality, and gun culture. The first goal is to shed light on the subordinating and marginalizing tendencies that arise as a result of gendered conceptions of gun use. The second aim is to illustrate how…
Indigenous resurgence, decolonial praxis, alternative futures
While most scholars working on resistance and decolonisation in Latin America and the Caribbean are familiar with the Zapatistas, far fewer have afforded committed attention to the parallel Maya land rights struggle and autonomous social movement in the region. Notably, a movement that is currently advancing in both Central America and the Caribbean, namely, Belize—a former colony of the British Crown. Accordingly, this piece offers a summary of …
Contraplantation, prison, and capitalist annihilation
This article demonstrates that the quotidian domain of social reproduction is fertile ground, and a crucial political terrain upon which to struggle, for revolutionary change. I propose that the Zapatistas are inspiration par excellence of decolonization, democracy, and a social movement that is co-creating the emancipatory politics, gender just social relations, and lifegiving culture its members desire. Additionally, I illustrate how anti-capit…
Crip Theory and Country Boys
This article examines the discursive and material practices of rural masculinity in Southeast Kansas by foregrounding ability and place as essential in understanding gender. It draws on empirical data gathered from autoethnographic participant-observer research conducted in the region. I begin with a synopsis of critical studies on masculinity in the field of human geography and proceed by offering a summary of research specifically addressing ru…
Land, race, and (slow) violence
This article, which has been informed by sustained engagement with an autonomous social movement and long-term participatory action research, offers a critical structural analysis of the Maya land struggle in Toledo District, Belize. We contend that state-sanctioned violations of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) reveal both the coloniality and misanthropic skepticism inherent in conventional ‘development’ agendas and the Westminster-model…
Wrestling with race and colonialism in Caribbean agriculture
Disrupting the Settler Colonial University
This article demonstrates how decolonial Placed-Based Education can disrupt a settler colonial academic status quo. We begin by situating our analysis in the unceded Syilx Territories of the Okanagan Valley (British Columbia, Canada) and proceed by illustrating how both taken-for-granted colonial epistemologies and banal exnominations of white supremacy remain orthodox within mainstream Canadian higher education. We next define "decolonial praxis…
White Settler Society as Monster
This article provides a critical analysis of the practices and discourses of white settler “men” in Southeast Kansas (Ancestral Osage Territories) by examining the inextricable links rural masculinity has with settler colonialism. I begin by underscoring how efforts in erasing Indigenous histories have been sanctioned through processes of dispossession, bordering, and nation‐state building. I then explore how hetero‐patriarchal rural hierarchies …
Food system and social reproduction realities for women in agriculture across the Caribbean
This article provides evidence of the food system challenges and structural barriers faced by women farmers and food producers in the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States. The aim of the piece is to add to critical literatures on political economy, development and food systems in the Majority World via recognizing the political agency of rural grassroots women in the Caribbean. To do so, we focus on the role that social reproduction has in th…
Ecosocialist Pedagogies
Roots, rhizomes and resistance
This article is a critical reflection, half a century on and offered from the Caribbean, about allegations of racial discrimination on the part of a professor that prompted the 1969 Sir George Williams affair in Montreal. It provides an overview of the factors that instigated the student uprising; details the response and aftermath that ensued; offers a focus on the role Black women played in the direct action; and illustrates how the incident wa…
Recognizing and undisciplining feminist geography in the Caribbean
The aim of this piece is to provide an overview of the state of feminist geography in the Anglo-Caribbean. In doing so via the metaphor of a gayap, we provide a précis of work that has been completed by feminist geographers across the region; offer an analysis of the historical, structural, and institutional obstacles of why it is not more robust; and propose that it can be seen across the region via an undisciplined and anti-orthodox standpoint.…
Unsettling orthodoxy via epistemological jailbreak
This article offers a critical overview of the coloniality of the broad fields of psychology and global mental health, as well as advocates anti-colonial approaches to childhood studies and wellness that move beyond Western frameworks and Eurocentric models. More specifically, by drawing upon transformative approaches to wellbeing being practiced by mental health promoters from the Caribbean who are committed to decolonisation, we propose, via th…
Plunder via Violation of FPIC
This briefing provides an explicatory synopsis of tensions that emerge at the nexus of state power, corporate extraction, and struggles for Indigenous self-determination in Central America and the Caribbean. Specifically, it offers an overview of the ongoing land rights conflict taking place in Toledo District, Southern Belize, between Maya communities, the Westminster-modelled Government of Belize (GoB), and extractivist corporations. In doing s…
Agrarian struggle and food system injustice in the Anglo-Caribbean
This piece offers a critical commentary on the historical-systemic marginalization and food system injustice being experienced by women farmers, agro-producers, and cottage industry owners in the Caribbean. In doing so, we provide an overview of the structural barriers and systemic negligence rural working-class and cash-poor women across the Anglo-Caribbean face as a result of the ongoing trajectories of colonialism, neoliberal logics, and patri…
Masculinities under neoliberalism
Masculinities Under Neoliberalism critically engages two of the most complex and multifaceted concepts that have emerged in the realms of both academic scholarship and everyday life: neoliberalism
Gun rites
Drawing upon empirical data from a qualitative research project in Southeast Kansas, this paper employs feminist and decolonial theories to analyse the interlocking relationality of hegemonic masculinity, neoliberal ideology, social conservatism, rurality, and gun culture. The first goal is to shed light on the subordinating and marginalizing tendencies that arise as a result of gendered conceptions of gun use. The second aim is to illustrate how…
White Settler Society as Monster
This article provides a critical analysis of the practices and discourses of white settler “men” in Southeast Kansas (Ancestral Osage Territories) by examining the inextricable links rural masculinity has with settler colonialism. I begin by underscoring how efforts in erasing Indigenous histories have been sanctioned through processes of dispossession, bordering, and nation‐state building. I then explore how hetero‐patriarchal rural hierarchies …
Masculinities under neoliberalism
Masculinities Under Neoliberalism critically engages two of the most complex and multifaceted concepts that have emerged in the realms of both academic scholarship and everyday life: neoliberalism
Crip Theory and Country Boys
This article examines the discursive and material practices of rural masculinity in Southeast Kansas by foregrounding ability and place as essential in understanding gender. It draws on empirical data gathered from autoethnographic participant-observer research conducted in the region. I begin with a synopsis of critical studies on masculinity in the field of human geography and proceed by offering a summary of research specifically addressing ru…
Recognizing and undisciplining feminist geography in the Caribbean
The aim of this piece is to provide an overview of the state of feminist geography in the Anglo-Caribbean. In doing so via the metaphor of a gayap, we provide a précis of work that has been completed by feminist geographers across the region; offer an analysis of the historical, structural, and institutional obstacles of why it is not more robust; and propose that it can be seen across the region via an undisciplined and anti-orthodox standpoint.…
Development justice, a proposal
This paper proposes that “development justice” be taken up as an analytical concept and praxis‐driven framework for research on disasters, resilience, and climate change. The piece begins with a synopsis of the historical‐structural factors exacerbating risk in the Caribbean before reviewing the concepts of vulnerability, resilience, and development justice. Next, drawing from empirical data and via a development justice lens, we highlight how th…
Wrestling with race and colonialism in Caribbean agriculture
Disrupting the Settler Colonial University
This article demonstrates how decolonial Placed-Based Education can disrupt a settler colonial academic status quo. We begin by situating our analysis in the unceded Syilx Territories of the Okanagan Valley (British Columbia, Canada) and proceed by illustrating how both taken-for-granted colonial epistemologies and banal exnominations of white supremacy remain orthodox within mainstream Canadian higher education. We next define "decolonial praxis…
Ecosocialist Pedagogies
Roots, rhizomes and resistance
This article is a critical reflection, half a century on and offered from the Caribbean, about allegations of racial discrimination on the part of a professor that prompted the 1969 Sir George Williams affair in Montreal. It provides an overview of the factors that instigated the student uprising; details the response and aftermath that ensued; offers a focus on the role Black women played in the direct action; and illustrates how the incident wa…
Land, God and Guns
Of “madness,” against Babylon
Land, God, and Guns
This book is an antidote to the forms of American nationalism, masculinity, exceptionalism, and self-anointed prowess that are currently being flexed on the global stage
Plunder via Violation of FPIC
This briefing provides an explicatory synopsis of tensions that emerge at the nexus of state power, corporate extraction, and struggles for Indigenous self-determination in Central America and the Caribbean. Specifically, it offers an overview of the ongoing land rights conflict taking place in Toledo District, Southern Belize, between Maya communities, the Westminster-modelled Government of Belize (GoB), and extractivist corporations. In doing s…
Agrarian struggle and food system injustice in the Anglo-Caribbean
This piece offers a critical commentary on the historical-systemic marginalization and food system injustice being experienced by women farmers, agro-producers, and cottage industry owners in the Caribbean. In doing so, we provide an overview of the structural barriers and systemic negligence rural working-class and cash-poor women across the Anglo-Caribbean face as a result of the ongoing trajectories of colonialism, neoliberal logics, and patri…
Indigenous resurgence, decolonial praxis, alternative futures
While most scholars working on resistance and decolonisation in Latin America and the Caribbean are familiar with the Zapatistas, far fewer have afforded committed attention to the parallel Maya land rights struggle and autonomous social movement in the region. Notably, a movement that is currently advancing in both Central America and the Caribbean, namely, Belize—a former colony of the British Crown. Accordingly, this piece offers a summary of …
Contraplantation, prison, and capitalist annihilation
This article demonstrates that the quotidian domain of social reproduction is fertile ground, and a crucial political terrain upon which to struggle, for revolutionary change. I propose that the Zapatistas are inspiration par excellence of decolonization, democracy, and a social movement that is co-creating the emancipatory politics, gender just social relations, and lifegiving culture its members desire. Additionally, I illustrate how anti-capit…
Food system and social reproduction realities for women in agriculture across the Caribbean
This article provides evidence of the food system challenges and structural barriers faced by women farmers and food producers in the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States. The aim of the piece is to add to critical literatures on political economy, development and food systems in the Majority World via recognizing the political agency of rural grassroots women in the Caribbean. To do so, we focus on the role that social reproduction has in th…
Joy Against the Machine, Building Better Futures
These flowers bring me joy. When I see them I remember how my parents and family and others treat me. It made me feel glad about my future in the world as a young girl. It looks bright––like how I
Introduction
Critical consciousness and praxis
Gender justice and social reproduction
Chapter 8 focuses on how the domain of social reproduction is a necessary political terrain on which to organise for widespread change and just social relations. More expressly, the chapter demonstrates how social reproduction, which includes care work, community building, provisioning and all the work that perpetuates life, can be intentionally foregrounded as a strategic site of anti-capitalist, anti-colonial and anti-heteropatriarchal struggle…
A world where many worlds fit
Chapter 2 offers readers a detailed introduction to the Zapatistas and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN). It provides a genealogy of the Zapatista uprising in 1994, as well as expanding on how the movement continues to engage in resistance and is practising self-determination in the face of neoliberalism and authoritarian state power. The chapter also discusses some of the principles that …
Modernity-coloniality and Indigenous realities
Political education and radical pedagogy
Chapter 7 illustrates how Zapatista communities are placing dignity, collectivity, defiance and selflessness at the heart of their social relations, economy and autonomous education system. The chapter offers an insight into the genesis of the Zapatista rebellion along with a detailed overview of how grassroots political education operates in Zapatista communities. After historicising the EZLN’s uprising in 1994, the chapter demonstrates how Indi…
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