Gome
Biographic Data
| ID | 40975 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gome |
| FAMILY NAME | Gome |
| SIGNATURE | GOME |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West Indies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3499-6278 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The totality problem
This article reconsiders C.L.R. James and Claudia Jones as theorists of totality whose work exposed foundational limits within mid-twentieth-century Marxism, liberal anti-colonialism and metropolitan feminism. Rather than treating race, class and gender as analytically separable or politically sequential problems, James and Jones insisted that capitalism, empire and heteropatriarchy form an integrated system whose contradictions can only be confr…
Against Decolonisation
Deporting Black Britons by Luke de Noronha
Shelene Gomes reviews the book Deporting Black Britons by Luke de Noronha. Deporting Black Britons artfully and vividly presents the experiences of primarily Jamaican-born and/or raised “Black Britons” deported from the U.K. to face an even more precarious life in Jamaica
Everyday Survival in the Southern Caribbean
Placemaking in the Transnational Caribbean
Considered a sacred place, Shashamane plays a foundational role in the Rastafari transnational social imaginary, especially when one considers how it is a purposeful response to the horrors of racial capitalism. Through an analysis of scenes of everyday life in Shashamane, Ethiopia, we examine the components of migrant Rastafari material culture and the resultant placemaking practices. Like other places in Ethiopia, in the last 20 years Shashaman…
A return to class solidarity
Notes on a Rastafari Yard-Space in Urban Ethiopia
The significance of the yard or household in social reproduction within the diasporic Caribbean is the focus of this essay. I outline how a Rastafari yard-space is shaped through household production and family formation among diasporic Caribbean peoples within intercultural households and families. This discussion is foregrounded in Rastafari migration or “repatriation” from the Caribbean to the symbolic land grant in Ethiopia. Two intercultural…
Observations on Rastafari Cosmopolitics from the Caribbean
Meseret’s story
This life-history examines the return migration of Meseret, an Ethiopian woman in her twenties, from Ethiopia to Saudi Arabia as a domestic worker. Meseret's successful labor migration is contextualized in hierarchical local and global economic and political structures as well as her personal goals and familial strategies for betterment or socio-economic improvement. An initial comparison will be made between Meseret's natal family and her affina…
Against Decolonisation
Meseret’s story
This life-history examines the return migration of Meseret, an Ethiopian woman in her twenties, from Ethiopia to Saudi Arabia as a domestic worker. Meseret's successful labor migration is contextualized in hierarchical local and global economic and political structures as well as her personal goals and familial strategies for betterment or socio-economic improvement. An initial comparison will be made between Meseret's natal family and her affina…
Observations on Rastafari Cosmopolitics from the Caribbean
Meseret’s story
This life-history examines the return migration of Meseret, an Ethiopian woman in her twenties, from Ethiopia to Saudi Arabia as a domestic worker. Meseret's successful labor migration is contextualized in hierarchical local and global economic and political structures as well as her personal goals and familial strategies for betterment or socio-economic improvement. An initial comparison will be made between Meseret's natal family and her affina…
Observations on Rastafari Cosmopolitics from the Caribbean
A return to class solidarity
Notes on a Rastafari Yard-Space in Urban Ethiopia
The significance of the yard or household in social reproduction within the diasporic Caribbean is the focus of this essay. I outline how a Rastafari yard-space is shaped through household production and family formation among diasporic Caribbean peoples within intercultural households and families. This discussion is foregrounded in Rastafari migration or “repatriation” from the Caribbean to the symbolic land grant in Ethiopia. Two intercultural…
Deporting Black Britons by Luke de Noronha
Shelene Gomes reviews the book Deporting Black Britons by Luke de Noronha. Deporting Black Britons artfully and vividly presents the experiences of primarily Jamaican-born and/or raised “Black Britons” deported from the U.K. to face an even more precarious life in Jamaica
Everyday Survival in the Southern Caribbean
Placemaking in the Transnational Caribbean
Considered a sacred place, Shashamane plays a foundational role in the Rastafari transnational social imaginary, especially when one considers how it is a purposeful response to the horrors of racial capitalism. Through an analysis of scenes of everyday life in Shashamane, Ethiopia, we examine the components of migrant Rastafari material culture and the resultant placemaking practices. Like other places in Ethiopia, in the last 20 years Shashaman…
Against Decolonisation
The totality problem
This article reconsiders C.L.R. James and Claudia Jones as theorists of totality whose work exposed foundational limits within mid-twentieth-century Marxism, liberal anti-colonialism and metropolitan feminism. Rather than treating race, class and gender as analytically separable or politically sequential problems, James and Jones insisted that capitalism, empire and heteropatriarchy form an integrated system whose contradictions can only be confr…
Sociology (8 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works)