Gabrielle Jamela Hosein
Biographic Data
| ID | 133426 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabrielle Jamela Hosein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabrielle Jamela |
| FAMILY NAME | Hosein |
| SIGNATURE | HOSEIN G J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West Indies |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5588-5342 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Intimate Partner Violence Studies in the English-Speaking Caribbean and Diaspora: A Scoping Review
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is the most common form of gender-based violence (GBV) experienced by women globally. In the Caribbean, IPV is especially pervasive. This scoping review systematically examined descriptive studies, surveys, secondary data analyses, and mixed-methods studies or interventions conducted between 2000-and 2022 that address IPV or GBV among English-speaking adult Caribbean populations within both the region and in diaspo…
Curating a transnational intellectual space: A conversation with Dr Kumar Mahabir and Shalima Mohammed about the Indo-Caribbean Cultural Centre’s Thought Leaders’ Public Forum
In 2020, scholars and community organizers, Dr Kumar Mahabir and Shalima Mohammed, co-founded the weekly Zoom webinar programme, the Indo-Caribbean Cultural Centre’s (ICC) ‘Thought Leaders’ Public Forum’. In conversation with Gabrielle Jamela Hosein, they reflect on the series’ history and contribution, their intellectual collaboration over six years and their curation of more than 300 sessions. The interview traces their aspirations and commitme…
Making Mas of Freedom Denied: Rhoda Reddock, Nachorious, and Postindenture Caribbean Feminism
Reflecting on the contributions of Professor Emerita Rhoda Reddock, this essay explores her sustained engagement with Indo-Caribbean gendered realities and how investment in understanding her “other” has informed her scholarship and activism. Thinking with the process of mas making, and particularly with the character “Nachorious” created for Jouvay 2025, the author considers the ways Reddock's analyses have informed her own postindenture Caribbe…
Using spoken word and theatre in gender-based violence education with adolescents in Trinidad and Tobago
Gender-based violence (GBV) is a critical issue that affects the lives of young people in the Caribbean and globally. This article documents a methodology for using spoken word and theatre in GBV prevention work with adolescents in the Caribbean. We discuss a series of participatory activities involving young people aged 11–17, and reflect on the co-creation of a play script and teaching resource. Our findings show that the use of culturally grou…
Spoken Word and Gender-based Violence Education among Adolescent Girls in Trinidad and Tobago
[No abstract]
Contradictory Indianness: Indenture, Creolization, and Literary Imaginary, by Atreyee Phukan
The botanical afterlife of indenture: Mehndi as imaginative visual archive
This article presents artwork from the project, ‘The botanical afterlife of indenture: Mehndi as imaginative visual archive’, which memorializes the legacy of Indian indenture by recording the flora brought by indentured workers as they exist in the midst of contemporary social life and in the region’s landscape. In the project, mehndi works as a decolonializing and embodied, post-indenture feminist aesthetic praxis and a method for contributing …
Intersections of Women as Survivors: Disclosures of Violence and Global Research Standards in Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago
Global guidelines on VAWG research prioritize safety-first approaches to discuss experiences of violence with survivors. Guidelines recommend that survivors only be interviewed in confidential and private interviews. However, little is known about why and how women choose to disclose experiences of violence in focus group settings. Utilizing survivor quotes and reflexive notes from the qualitative components of the first national prevalence surve…
A Letter to My Great-Grandmother
This commentary on Gaiutra Bahadur’s Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture contextualizes its themes and contribution through engagement with its creative nonfiction form. It places the text within the intellectual trajectory of Indo-Caribbean feminist historiography, highlighting how this literature has long drawn on matrilineal genealogies to examine indentureship, its afterlife, and its significance for contemporary Caribbean feminisms. Criti…
Non-Activism: Political Engagement and Facebook Through Ethnography in Trinidad
Despite scholarly and popular assertions that social media transforms the possibilities for political engagement, there is little investigation to the relationship between public life and political discussion on social media platforms in the everyday lives of people in different cultural contexts. Based on 15 months ethnographic inquiry in a Trinidadian town, this article examines a political event (the hunger strike of Dr Wayne Kublalsingh) as i…
Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought: Genealogies, Theories, Enactments
Bringing together three generations of scholars, thinkers and activists, this book is the first to trace a genealogy of the specific contributions Indo-Caribbean women have made to Caribbean feminist
Earth, Water, Woman: Community & Sustainability in Trinidad
Transnational spirituality, invented ethnicity and performances of citizenship in Trinidad
The practice of masquerade in Carnival has implications for the way that citizenship is articulated, mobilized and made meaningful in Trinidad. This is exemplified by artists who make and wear ‘Indian mas’ costumes. ‘Indian mas’ refers to a type of costumed performance, ritually played out on the two days of the year before Lent, which portrays aspects of Native American or American ‘Indian’ dress, beliefs, iconography and history. It is a masque…
Caribbean Feminism, Activist Pedagogies and Transnational Dialogues
Survival stories: Challenges facing youth in Trinidad and Tobago
While marginalisation is a term usually used to refer to the experience of young Caribbean men, it is women who are the poorest and most economically exploited. Youth activists in Trinidad are primarily focused on sexual and reproductive health issues but do not generally address issues to do with women's rights and equity, while feminist organisations focus on personal issues and do not make links with the wider political context. At the moment,…
Caribbean Feminism, Activist Pedagogies and Transnational Dialogues
Non-Activism: Political Engagement and Facebook Through Ethnography in Trinidad
Despite scholarly and popular assertions that social media transforms the possibilities for political engagement, there is little investigation to the relationship between public life and political discussion on social media platforms in the everyday lives of people in different cultural contexts. Based on 15 months ethnographic inquiry in a Trinidadian town, this article examines a political event (the hunger strike of Dr Wayne Kublalsingh) as i…
Transnational spirituality, invented ethnicity and performances of citizenship in Trinidad
The practice of masquerade in Carnival has implications for the way that citizenship is articulated, mobilized and made meaningful in Trinidad. This is exemplified by artists who make and wear ‘Indian mas’ costumes. ‘Indian mas’ refers to a type of costumed performance, ritually played out on the two days of the year before Lent, which portrays aspects of Native American or American ‘Indian’ dress, beliefs, iconography and history. It is a masque…
The botanical afterlife of indenture: Mehndi as imaginative visual archive
This article presents artwork from the project, ‘The botanical afterlife of indenture: Mehndi as imaginative visual archive’, which memorializes the legacy of Indian indenture by recording the flora brought by indentured workers as they exist in the midst of contemporary social life and in the region’s landscape. In the project, mehndi works as a decolonializing and embodied, post-indenture feminist aesthetic praxis and a method for contributing …
Earth, Water, Woman: Community & Sustainability in Trinidad
Survival stories: Challenges facing youth in Trinidad and Tobago
While marginalisation is a term usually used to refer to the experience of young Caribbean men, it is women who are the poorest and most economically exploited. Youth activists in Trinidad are primarily focused on sexual and reproductive health issues but do not generally address issues to do with women's rights and equity, while feminist organisations focus on personal issues and do not make links with the wider political context. At the moment,…
Caribbean Feminism, Activist Pedagogies and Transnational Dialogues
Transnational spirituality, invented ethnicity and performances of citizenship in Trinidad
The practice of masquerade in Carnival has implications for the way that citizenship is articulated, mobilized and made meaningful in Trinidad. This is exemplified by artists who make and wear ‘Indian mas’ costumes. ‘Indian mas’ refers to a type of costumed performance, ritually played out on the two days of the year before Lent, which portrays aspects of Native American or American ‘Indian’ dress, beliefs, iconography and history. It is a masque…
Earth, Water, Woman: Community & Sustainability in Trinidad
Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought: Genealogies, Theories, Enactments
Bringing together three generations of scholars, thinkers and activists, this book is the first to trace a genealogy of the specific contributions Indo-Caribbean women have made to Caribbean feminist
Non-Activism: Political Engagement and Facebook Through Ethnography in Trinidad
Despite scholarly and popular assertions that social media transforms the possibilities for political engagement, there is little investigation to the relationship between public life and political discussion on social media platforms in the everyday lives of people in different cultural contexts. Based on 15 months ethnographic inquiry in a Trinidadian town, this article examines a political event (the hunger strike of Dr Wayne Kublalsingh) as i…
A Letter to My Great-Grandmother
This commentary on Gaiutra Bahadur’s Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture contextualizes its themes and contribution through engagement with its creative nonfiction form. It places the text within the intellectual trajectory of Indo-Caribbean feminist historiography, highlighting how this literature has long drawn on matrilineal genealogies to examine indentureship, its afterlife, and its significance for contemporary Caribbean feminisms. Criti…
Intersections of Women as Survivors: Disclosures of Violence and Global Research Standards in Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago
Global guidelines on VAWG research prioritize safety-first approaches to discuss experiences of violence with survivors. Guidelines recommend that survivors only be interviewed in confidential and private interviews. However, little is known about why and how women choose to disclose experiences of violence in focus group settings. Utilizing survivor quotes and reflexive notes from the qualitative components of the first national prevalence surve…
Spoken Word and Gender-based Violence Education among Adolescent Girls in Trinidad and Tobago
[No abstract]
Contradictory Indianness: Indenture, Creolization, and Literary Imaginary, by Atreyee Phukan
The botanical afterlife of indenture: Mehndi as imaginative visual archive
This article presents artwork from the project, ‘The botanical afterlife of indenture: Mehndi as imaginative visual archive’, which memorializes the legacy of Indian indenture by recording the flora brought by indentured workers as they exist in the midst of contemporary social life and in the region’s landscape. In the project, mehndi works as a decolonializing and embodied, post-indenture feminist aesthetic praxis and a method for contributing …
Using spoken word and theatre in gender-based violence education with adolescents in Trinidad and Tobago
Gender-based violence (GBV) is a critical issue that affects the lives of young people in the Caribbean and globally. This article documents a methodology for using spoken word and theatre in GBV prevention work with adolescents in the Caribbean. We discuss a series of participatory activities involving young people aged 11–17, and reflect on the co-creation of a play script and teaching resource. Our findings show that the use of culturally grou…
Intimate Partner Violence Studies in the English-Speaking Caribbean and Diaspora: A Scoping Review
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is the most common form of gender-based violence (GBV) experienced by women globally. In the Caribbean, IPV is especially pervasive. This scoping review systematically examined descriptive studies, surveys, secondary data analyses, and mixed-methods studies or interventions conducted between 2000-and 2022 that address IPV or GBV among English-speaking adult Caribbean populations within both the region and in diaspo…
Curating a transnational intellectual space: A conversation with Dr Kumar Mahabir and Shalima Mohammed about the Indo-Caribbean Cultural Centre’s Thought Leaders’ Public Forum
In 2020, scholars and community organizers, Dr Kumar Mahabir and Shalima Mohammed, co-founded the weekly Zoom webinar programme, the Indo-Caribbean Cultural Centre’s (ICC) ‘Thought Leaders’ Public Forum’. In conversation with Gabrielle Jamela Hosein, they reflect on the series’ history and contribution, their intellectual collaboration over six years and their curation of more than 300 sessions. The interview traces their aspirations and commitme…
Making Mas of Freedom Denied: Rhoda Reddock, Nachorious, and Postindenture Caribbean Feminism
Reflecting on the contributions of Professor Emerita Rhoda Reddock, this essay explores her sustained engagement with Indo-Caribbean gendered realities and how investment in understanding her “other” has informed her scholarship and activism. Thinking with the process of mas making, and particularly with the character “Nachorious” created for Jouvay 2025, the author considers the ways Reddock's analyses have informed her own postindenture Caribbe…
Sociology (10 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (8 works) · History (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Art (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Literature (4 works)