D Kerrigan
Biographic Data
| ID | 49553 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Kerrigan |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Kerrigan |
| SIGNATURE | KERRIGAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2453-9804 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Differentiating the local impact of global drugs and weapons trafficking
The Southern Caribbean became a key hemispheric drug transhipment point in the late 1990s, to which the alarmingly high level of homicidal violence in Trinidad is often attributed. Existing research, concentrated in criminology and mainstream international relations, as well as the anti-drug policy establishment, tends to accept this correlation, framing the challenge as a typical post-Westphalian security threat. However, conventional accounts s…
Therapeutic politics reconsidered
In this article, we critically interrogate the relationship between the post-political turn and the psychologisation of social life. It has long been argued that psychologisation, in the form the popularisation of psychotherapeutic discourses and practices and their usage across a range of non-specialist institutional domains, contributes to de-politicisation and the current crisis of democratic politics. However, the empirical basis for this arg…
Breaking bad”? Gangs, masculinities, and murder in Trinidad
The murder rate in Port of Spain, Trinidad, rose dramatically around the turn of the millennium, driven overwhelmingly by young men in gangs in the city’s poor neighborhoods. The literature frequently suggests a causal relationship between gang violence and rising transnational drug flows through Trinidad during this period. However, this is only part of a complex picture and misses the crucial mediating effect of evolving male identities in cont…
Imagining Society
Re-examining C.Wright Mills’s legacy as a jumping off point, this original introduction to sociology illuminates global concepts, themes and practices that are fundamental to the discipline. It makes a case for the importance of developing a sociological imagination and provides the steps for how readers can do that. The unique text: • Offers succinct and wide-ranging coverage of many of the most important themes and concepts taught in first year…
The sociological imagination
Making sense of society
Bobol as a Transhistorical Cultural Logic
(2020). Bobol as a Transhistorical Cultural Logic. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 66, Crime in Selected Caribbean Territories: Culture and Representation, pp. 195-216
Introduction
(2020). Introduction: Crime in Selected Caribbean Territories Culture and Representation. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 66, Crime in Selected Caribbean Territories: Culture and Representation, pp. 169-176
Thin selves
This article explores popular psychology as a transnational moral grammar. Academic debates have been sharply critical of popular psychology, and they have emphasised its association with neoliberal capitalism’s narratives of social relationships. However, scholarship on popular psychology has focused on the Global Northwest. The transnational diffusion of popular psychology remains poorly understood, as do its implications for experiences of sel…
Lloyd, Ravi Hart. Treasured moments. DVD/PAL. 33 minutes, colour. London
Donna Haraway
Love is Love
Trinidad and Tobago’s anti-gay laws can be traced back to British colonialism and European imperialism. Their existence today and their consequences for human lives in Trinidad and Tobago during the past one hundred years are a local entanglement of historic global hierarchies of power. On 12 April 2018, in the High Court of Port of Spain, capital of Trinidad and Tobago, Justice Devindra Rampersad, in a form of judicial activism, trod where local…
Language-in-Use Living under Militarisation and Insecurity
En este artículo se contextualizan los datos de la entrevista de un proyecto de investigación en marcha sobre la militarización de la vida cotidiana en Trinidad, y se explora discursivamente el lenguaje en uso para proporcionar una visión de las experiencias cotidianas de (in) seguridad en St. Barbs, Laventille. Demuestra cómo el lenguaje puede estar implicado en la justificación, el apoyo y la aceptación de vivir en condiciones de militarización…
Who ent dead, badly wounded
In Trinidad two distinct bodies scar everyday cultural life. One is the Carnivalesque - a naked, commodified, and sexualised body of the popular bikini and beads type of Carnival portrayals called 'pretty mas'. The other body is the grotesque - a dead, maimed, and murdered body appearing frequently in news media and in daily discussions on social media as the murder rate locally reaches one person every day. From the mid 1980s to the present, the…
Languaculture and grassroots football
This paper provides anthropological insights into 'small goal football' on the Caribbean island of Trinidad and makes a contribution to the understanding of grassroots football on an international level. The content was collected via long-term, ethnographic research. Two short descriptions are offered: one on language-in-use on the small goal football field (racial/ethnic nicknames and others words) and one on conflict on the small goal football …
Thin selves
This article explores popular psychology as a transnational moral grammar. Academic debates have been sharply critical of popular psychology, and they have emphasised its association with neoliberal capitalism’s narratives of social relationships. However, scholarship on popular psychology has focused on the Global Northwest. The transnational diffusion of popular psychology remains poorly understood, as do its implications for experiences of sel…
Language-in-Use Living under Militarisation and Insecurity
En este artículo se contextualizan los datos de la entrevista de un proyecto de investigación en marcha sobre la militarización de la vida cotidiana en Trinidad, y se explora discursivamente el lenguaje en uso para proporcionar una visión de las experiencias cotidianas de (in) seguridad en St. Barbs, Laventille. Demuestra cómo el lenguaje puede estar implicado en la justificación, el apoyo y la aceptación de vivir en condiciones de militarización…
Languaculture and grassroots football
This paper provides anthropological insights into 'small goal football' on the Caribbean island of Trinidad and makes a contribution to the understanding of grassroots football on an international level. The content was collected via long-term, ethnographic research. Two short descriptions are offered: one on language-in-use on the small goal football field (racial/ethnic nicknames and others words) and one on conflict on the small goal football …
Breaking bad”? Gangs, masculinities, and murder in Trinidad
The murder rate in Port of Spain, Trinidad, rose dramatically around the turn of the millennium, driven overwhelmingly by young men in gangs in the city’s poor neighborhoods. The literature frequently suggests a causal relationship between gang violence and rising transnational drug flows through Trinidad during this period. However, this is only part of a complex picture and misses the crucial mediating effect of evolving male identities in cont…
Who ent dead, badly wounded
In Trinidad two distinct bodies scar everyday cultural life. One is the Carnivalesque - a naked, commodified, and sexualised body of the popular bikini and beads type of Carnival portrayals called 'pretty mas'. The other body is the grotesque - a dead, maimed, and murdered body appearing frequently in news media and in daily discussions on social media as the murder rate locally reaches one person every day. From the mid 1980s to the present, the…
Differentiating the local impact of global drugs and weapons trafficking
The Southern Caribbean became a key hemispheric drug transhipment point in the late 1990s, to which the alarmingly high level of homicidal violence in Trinidad is often attributed. Existing research, concentrated in criminology and mainstream international relations, as well as the anti-drug policy establishment, tends to accept this correlation, framing the challenge as a typical post-Westphalian security threat. However, conventional accounts s…
Therapeutic politics reconsidered
In this article, we critically interrogate the relationship between the post-political turn and the psychologisation of social life. It has long been argued that psychologisation, in the form the popularisation of psychotherapeutic discourses and practices and their usage across a range of non-specialist institutional domains, contributes to de-politicisation and the current crisis of democratic politics. However, the empirical basis for this arg…
Bobol as a Transhistorical Cultural Logic
(2020). Bobol as a Transhistorical Cultural Logic. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 66, Crime in Selected Caribbean Territories: Culture and Representation, pp. 195-216
Who ent dead, badly wounded
In Trinidad two distinct bodies scar everyday cultural life. One is the Carnivalesque - a naked, commodified, and sexualised body of the popular bikini and beads type of Carnival portrayals called 'pretty mas'. The other body is the grotesque - a dead, maimed, and murdered body appearing frequently in news media and in daily discussions on social media as the murder rate locally reaches one person every day. From the mid 1980s to the present, the…
Languaculture and grassroots football
This paper provides anthropological insights into 'small goal football' on the Caribbean island of Trinidad and makes a contribution to the understanding of grassroots football on an international level. The content was collected via long-term, ethnographic research. Two short descriptions are offered: one on language-in-use on the small goal football field (racial/ethnic nicknames and others words) and one on conflict on the small goal football …
Lloyd, Ravi Hart. Treasured moments. DVD/PAL. 33 minutes, colour. London
Donna Haraway
Love is Love
Trinidad and Tobago’s anti-gay laws can be traced back to British colonialism and European imperialism. Their existence today and their consequences for human lives in Trinidad and Tobago during the past one hundred years are a local entanglement of historic global hierarchies of power. On 12 April 2018, in the High Court of Port of Spain, capital of Trinidad and Tobago, Justice Devindra Rampersad, in a form of judicial activism, trod where local…
Language-in-Use Living under Militarisation and Insecurity
En este artículo se contextualizan los datos de la entrevista de un proyecto de investigación en marcha sobre la militarización de la vida cotidiana en Trinidad, y se explora discursivamente el lenguaje en uso para proporcionar una visión de las experiencias cotidianas de (in) seguridad en St. Barbs, Laventille. Demuestra cómo el lenguaje puede estar implicado en la justificación, el apoyo y la aceptación de vivir en condiciones de militarización…
Imagining Society
Re-examining C.Wright Mills’s legacy as a jumping off point, this original introduction to sociology illuminates global concepts, themes and practices that are fundamental to the discipline. It makes a case for the importance of developing a sociological imagination and provides the steps for how readers can do that. The unique text: • Offers succinct and wide-ranging coverage of many of the most important themes and concepts taught in first year…
The sociological imagination
Making sense of society
Bobol as a Transhistorical Cultural Logic
(2020). Bobol as a Transhistorical Cultural Logic. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 66, Crime in Selected Caribbean Territories: Culture and Representation, pp. 195-216
Introduction
(2020). Introduction: Crime in Selected Caribbean Territories Culture and Representation. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 66, Crime in Selected Caribbean Territories: Culture and Representation, pp. 169-176
Thin selves
This article explores popular psychology as a transnational moral grammar. Academic debates have been sharply critical of popular psychology, and they have emphasised its association with neoliberal capitalism’s narratives of social relationships. However, scholarship on popular psychology has focused on the Global Northwest. The transnational diffusion of popular psychology remains poorly understood, as do its implications for experiences of sel…
Breaking bad”? Gangs, masculinities, and murder in Trinidad
The murder rate in Port of Spain, Trinidad, rose dramatically around the turn of the millennium, driven overwhelmingly by young men in gangs in the city’s poor neighborhoods. The literature frequently suggests a causal relationship between gang violence and rising transnational drug flows through Trinidad during this period. However, this is only part of a complex picture and misses the crucial mediating effect of evolving male identities in cont…
Therapeutic politics reconsidered
In this article, we critically interrogate the relationship between the post-political turn and the psychologisation of social life. It has long been argued that psychologisation, in the form the popularisation of psychotherapeutic discourses and practices and their usage across a range of non-specialist institutional domains, contributes to de-politicisation and the current crisis of democratic politics. However, the empirical basis for this arg…
Differentiating the local impact of global drugs and weapons trafficking
The Southern Caribbean became a key hemispheric drug transhipment point in the late 1990s, to which the alarmingly high level of homicidal violence in Trinidad is often attributed. Existing research, concentrated in criminology and mainstream international relations, as well as the anti-drug policy establishment, tends to accept this correlation, framing the challenge as a typical post-Westphalian security threat. However, conventional accounts s…
Sociology (9 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Art (5 works) · History (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works)