D Alissa Trotz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1310418 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Alissa Trotz |
| GIVEN NAMES | D Alissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Trotz |
| SIGNATURE | TROTZ D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“A whole world was in her face”
This essay draws on Brand’s storying of an encounter in Kalinago territory in order to think about diaspora and indigeneity simultaneously in relation to, and against histories and contemporary practices of extractivism
Guyana’s Oil Dorado
At the end of 2022, three years after oil production began in Guyana’s offshore waters, ExxonMobil posted the highest profits in its 152-year history. Events in the country’s bourgeoning oil indust
Insurgent Knowledges
This essay offers a modest attempt to read Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972) alongside the political tragedy that was unfolding in 1960s Guyana, which Rodney was thinking and writing about before and during his Dar es Salaam years. The authors suggest that this historical conjuncture and such a relational reading—in contrast to one that considers Rodney’s Caribbean, African, and Guyanese years separately or with little atten…
Gaiutra Bahadur's Coolie Woman
This essay engages a key thematic of Gaiutra Bahadur’s Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture—racialized, gendered and sexualized violence in the making of the “coolie” woman in British Guiana. Through literary nonfiction, Bahadur offers a rigorous and imaginative methodological approach that reveals and challenges the epistemic violence of the official archive. Her analysis incisively attends to the relationships between empire, intimacy, and vi…
Shalini Puri, The Grenada revolution in the Caribbean present
Three syllables: Grenada. An island. A word. Nearly four decades after The People’s Revolutionary Government (PRG) overthrew the regime of Eric Gairy, and just over 30 years after the implosion tha
"La deuda es impagable" (the debt is unpayable)
This essay, a shorter version of which appeared as a Stabroek News Column (Guyana, May 5, 2014), pays tribute to Norman Girvan, Caribbean economist and public intellectual who died tragically in April 2014, and whose life’s work exemplified a commitment to pan-Caribbeanism and deepening the rich tradition of radical Caribbean thought
Transnational Migration, the State, and Development
Drawing on the way international financial institutions, development organizations, and the state have “discovered” the investment possibilities of diasporic populations, this essay suggests new directions for a reinvigorated approach to Caribbean studies, one that is well placed to historicize the ways the diaspora is approached, and one that can also engage reflexively with how contributions in the field have created the conditions of possibili…
Bustling across the Canada-US Border
While discussions of transnational migration now offer rich studies of the embodied transgression of territorial boundaries, empirical investigations in the social sciences have largely tended to be preoccupied with the relations sustained between origin/home/departure and destination/away/settlement societies. This emphasis has arguably restricted our comprehension of the complexity of transnational practices that connect people not just with th…
Shifting the Ground Beneath Us
Nearly three decades after the implementation of structural adjustment programmes, there are rapidly growing social and economic inequalities in the Caribbean, a situation further aggravated in Guyana by a divided and highly racialized political landscape. This essay looks at how Red Thread, a Guyanese women's organization, draws on women's caring work to ground various interventions that contest the status quo and span traditional racialized and…
Rethinking Caribbean transnational connections
In academic debates across the social sciences, transnationalism has increasingly come to denote the cross-border networks developed by migrants and the ways in which these link geographically distinct places into a single social field. At the same time, the intense focus on linkages between origin and destination groups frequently ends up privileging this binary - home/away - as the only way to map enduring cross-border linkages. Drawing on two …
Between Despair and Hope
Research Article| March 01 2004 Between Despair and Hope: Women and Violence in Contemporary Guyana D. Alissa Trotz D. Alissa Trotz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1215/-8-1-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation D. Alissa Trotz; Between Despair and Hope: Women and Violence in Contemporary Guyana. Small Axe 1 March 2004; 8 (1 (15))…
Behind the banner of culture? Gender, 'race,' and the family in Guyana
Suggests that the family plays a role in the production of gendered and racialized differences in the Caribbean. Author focuses especially on Guyana, and the differences between Afro- and Indo-Guyanese. First, she revisits earlier scholarly works on the Caribbean family, limited to domesticity and feminist responses. She stresses that representations of the Caribbean family serve(d) the imperatives of governance, and the social stratification, fr…
Gender, Ethnicity and Place
This book is concerned with the nature of the relationship between gender, ethnicity and poverty in the context of the external and internal dynamics of households in Guyana. Using detailed data collected from male and female respondents in three separate locations, two urban and one rural, and across two major ethnic groups, Afro-Guyanese and Indo-Guyanese, the authors discuss the links between gender and race, exploring development issues from …
Rethinking Caribbean transnational connections
In academic debates across the social sciences, transnationalism has increasingly come to denote the cross-border networks developed by migrants and the ways in which these link geographically distinct places into a single social field. At the same time, the intense focus on linkages between origin and destination groups frequently ends up privileging this binary - home/away - as the only way to map enduring cross-border linkages. Drawing on two …
Transnational Migration, the State, and Development
Drawing on the way international financial institutions, development organizations, and the state have “discovered” the investment possibilities of diasporic populations, this essay suggests new directions for a reinvigorated approach to Caribbean studies, one that is well placed to historicize the ways the diaspora is approached, and one that can also engage reflexively with how contributions in the field have created the conditions of possibili…
Shifting the Ground Beneath Us
Nearly three decades after the implementation of structural adjustment programmes, there are rapidly growing social and economic inequalities in the Caribbean, a situation further aggravated in Guyana by a divided and highly racialized political landscape. This essay looks at how Red Thread, a Guyanese women's organization, draws on women's caring work to ground various interventions that contest the status quo and span traditional racialized and…
Bustling across the Canada-US Border
While discussions of transnational migration now offer rich studies of the embodied transgression of territorial boundaries, empirical investigations in the social sciences have largely tended to be preoccupied with the relations sustained between origin/home/departure and destination/away/settlement societies. This emphasis has arguably restricted our comprehension of the complexity of transnational practices that connect people not just with th…
Between Despair and Hope
Research Article| March 01 2004 Between Despair and Hope: Women and Violence in Contemporary Guyana D. Alissa Trotz D. Alissa Trotz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1215/-8-1-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation D. Alissa Trotz; Between Despair and Hope: Women and Violence in Contemporary Guyana. Small Axe 1 March 2004; 8 (1 (15))…
Gaiutra Bahadur's Coolie Woman
This essay engages a key thematic of Gaiutra Bahadur’s Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture—racialized, gendered and sexualized violence in the making of the “coolie” woman in British Guiana. Through literary nonfiction, Bahadur offers a rigorous and imaginative methodological approach that reveals and challenges the epistemic violence of the official archive. Her analysis incisively attends to the relationships between empire, intimacy, and vi…
Behind the banner of culture? Gender, 'race,' and the family in Guyana
Suggests that the family plays a role in the production of gendered and racialized differences in the Caribbean. Author focuses especially on Guyana, and the differences between Afro- and Indo-Guyanese. First, she revisits earlier scholarly works on the Caribbean family, limited to domesticity and feminist responses. She stresses that representations of the Caribbean family serve(d) the imperatives of governance, and the social stratification, fr…
Gender, Ethnicity and Place
This book is concerned with the nature of the relationship between gender, ethnicity and poverty in the context of the external and internal dynamics of households in Guyana. Using detailed data collected from male and female respondents in three separate locations, two urban and one rural, and across two major ethnic groups, Afro-Guyanese and Indo-Guyanese, the authors discuss the links between gender and race, exploring development issues from …
Behind the banner of culture? Gender, 'race,' and the family in Guyana
Suggests that the family plays a role in the production of gendered and racialized differences in the Caribbean. Author focuses especially on Guyana, and the differences between Afro- and Indo-Guyanese. First, she revisits earlier scholarly works on the Caribbean family, limited to domesticity and feminist responses. She stresses that representations of the Caribbean family serve(d) the imperatives of governance, and the social stratification, fr…
Between Despair and Hope
Research Article| March 01 2004 Between Despair and Hope: Women and Violence in Contemporary Guyana D. Alissa Trotz D. Alissa Trotz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1215/-8-1-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation D. Alissa Trotz; Between Despair and Hope: Women and Violence in Contemporary Guyana. Small Axe 1 March 2004; 8 (1 (15))…
Rethinking Caribbean transnational connections
In academic debates across the social sciences, transnationalism has increasingly come to denote the cross-border networks developed by migrants and the ways in which these link geographically distinct places into a single social field. At the same time, the intense focus on linkages between origin and destination groups frequently ends up privileging this binary - home/away - as the only way to map enduring cross-border linkages. Drawing on two …
Shifting the Ground Beneath Us
Nearly three decades after the implementation of structural adjustment programmes, there are rapidly growing social and economic inequalities in the Caribbean, a situation further aggravated in Guyana by a divided and highly racialized political landscape. This essay looks at how Red Thread, a Guyanese women's organization, draws on women's caring work to ground various interventions that contest the status quo and span traditional racialized and…
Bustling across the Canada-US Border
While discussions of transnational migration now offer rich studies of the embodied transgression of territorial boundaries, empirical investigations in the social sciences have largely tended to be preoccupied with the relations sustained between origin/home/departure and destination/away/settlement societies. This emphasis has arguably restricted our comprehension of the complexity of transnational practices that connect people not just with th…
Transnational Migration, the State, and Development
Drawing on the way international financial institutions, development organizations, and the state have “discovered” the investment possibilities of diasporic populations, this essay suggests new directions for a reinvigorated approach to Caribbean studies, one that is well placed to historicize the ways the diaspora is approached, and one that can also engage reflexively with how contributions in the field have created the conditions of possibili…
"La deuda es impagable" (the debt is unpayable)
This essay, a shorter version of which appeared as a Stabroek News Column (Guyana, May 5, 2014), pays tribute to Norman Girvan, Caribbean economist and public intellectual who died tragically in April 2014, and whose life’s work exemplified a commitment to pan-Caribbeanism and deepening the rich tradition of radical Caribbean thought
Shalini Puri, The Grenada revolution in the Caribbean present
Three syllables: Grenada. An island. A word. Nearly four decades after The People’s Revolutionary Government (PRG) overthrew the regime of Eric Gairy, and just over 30 years after the implosion tha
Gaiutra Bahadur's Coolie Woman
This essay engages a key thematic of Gaiutra Bahadur’s Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture—racialized, gendered and sexualized violence in the making of the “coolie” woman in British Guiana. Through literary nonfiction, Bahadur offers a rigorous and imaginative methodological approach that reveals and challenges the epistemic violence of the official archive. Her analysis incisively attends to the relationships between empire, intimacy, and vi…
“A whole world was in her face”
This essay draws on Brand’s storying of an encounter in Kalinago territory in order to think about diaspora and indigeneity simultaneously in relation to, and against histories and contemporary practices of extractivism
Guyana’s Oil Dorado
At the end of 2022, three years after oil production began in Guyana’s offshore waters, ExxonMobil posted the highest profits in its 152-year history. Events in the country’s bourgeoning oil indust
Insurgent Knowledges
This essay offers a modest attempt to read Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972) alongside the political tragedy that was unfolding in 1960s Guyana, which Rodney was thinking and writing about before and during his Dar es Salaam years. The authors suggest that this historical conjuncture and such a relational reading—in contrast to one that considers Rodney’s Caribbean, African, and Guyanese years separately or with little atten…
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