Keston K Perry
Biographic Data
| ID | 678679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keston K Perry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keston K |
| FAMILY NAME | Perry |
| SIGNATURE | PERRY K K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Williams College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0783-2083 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 110 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Unsettling the Plantation “Babylon” System: Humanness beyond Disaster, Reparative Ecologies and Caribbean Freedom
By imperial design, the Caribbean region was created as uneven yet interconnected archipelagos of Black dispossession, devaluation and dehumanisation. On this basis, Caribbean leaders have initiated calls for reparatory justice, demanding restitution for longstanding systemic inequalities stemming largely from plantation slavery, colonialism and native genocide. This paper interrogates the Caribbean program for reparatory justice drawing out its …
Epistemic silences, subversive politics: Post-disaster economic assessments as technologies of persistent coloniality and route to an emancipatory climate justice agenda in the Caribbean
Economic analyses of losses and damages or post-disaster needs assessments (PDNAs) are silent about the longstanding reparatory claims related to the legacies of African enslavement, colonial violence and indigenous dispossession that compound uneven racialized geographies in the Caribbean. This paper unpacks these so-called ‘objective’ valuations drawing attention to their (neo)liberal framings, technocratic underpinnings, and historical origins…
Power to the People!”: The Catalytic Role of the Black Power Movement in Trinidad and Tobago’s Industrialization
Recent developmental state research highlights state-society configurations and contentious politics in shaping industrialization. Still, much of this work focuses on East Asia and tends to sidestep racialized labor exploitation, imperialism, and uneven incorporation into the global capitalist system through the trans-Atlantic slave trade and colonialism as important drivers. Through an historical analysis of Trinidad and Tobago, this paper exami…
Racial capitalism and climate justice: White redemptive power and the uneven geographies of eco-imperial crisis
(Un)Just transitions and Black dispossession: The disposability of Caribbean ‘refugees’ and the political economy of climate justice
Caribbean populations face increased displacement, dispossession and debt burdens due to shocks related to climate change. As the major neighbouring power that is the most significant historical contributor to global warming, the United States has persistently deflected from this responsibility. Instead, its climate plans are weaponized to target potential climate refugees who constitute a ‘national security threat’ and are faced with risks of pr…
From the plantation to the deep blue sea: Naturalising debt, ordinary disasters, and postplantation ecologies in the Caribbean
This paper critically assesses debt as a response to ecological, fiscal, and climate disasters that have emerged within the 'blue economy' agenda in the Caribbean. Caribbean countries routinely suffer major losses of life, internal social and economic displacement, increased debt burdens, and significant economic damages due to hurricanes and ecological disasters in the context of an ongoing fiscal crisis. In response, regional public and nationa…
Continuity, change and contradictions in late steel‐based industrialization: The “global color line” in Trinidad and Tobago's postcolonial economy
This paper offers an alternative explanation of the performance of the steel industry in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T). The steel industry emerged due to social mobilizations demanding changes to the colonial economy by investing natural resources in state‐led industrialization and welfare improvement. This investigation contends that the “resource curse” account that describes so‐called intrinsic social pathologies whereby postcolonial actors interf…
The new ‘bond-age’, climate crisis and the case for climate reparations: Unpicking old/new colonialities of finance for development within the SDGs
Financing a Global Green New Deal: Greening Capitalism or Taming Financialization for a New 'Civilizing' Multilateralism
Structuralism and Human Development: A Seamless Marriage? An Assessment of Poverty, Production and Environmental Challenges in Caricom Countries
The article examines the current human development experience of CARICOM nations focusing on the interconnected challenges of poverty, production and the environment that show continuing uneven development. Using an extended structuralist framework based on international political economy dynamics, it incorporates organizational dynamics and domestic politics, especially the role of rents in influencing productive and inclusive development. In th…
For politics, people, or the planet? The political economy of fossil fuel reform, energy dependence and climate policy in Haiti
WITHDRAWN–Administrative Duplicate Publication The Dynamics of Industrial Development in a Resource-Rich Developing Society: A Political Economy Analysis
Perry, K. K. (2018). The dynamics of industrial development in a resource-rich developing society: A political economy analysis. Journal of Developing Societies , 1-33. https://doi.org/10.1177/0049085718786136 Sage Publishing regrets that due to an administrative error, this article was accidentally published Online First and in Volume 34 Issue 3 with different DOIs. There was no duplication of the article in the printed and online version of Vol…
The Dynamics of Industrial Development in a Resource-Rich Developing Society: A Political Economy Analysis
This article criticizes the resource curse thesis for neglecting the interplay of international factors and domestic politics, that is the political settlement, in explaining industrial performance in a resource-dependent society – Trinidad and Tobago. Using political settlement, analysis secondary as well as interview data, it examines the dynamics at the macro and sectoral levels in iron and steel and telecommunications in Trinidad and Tobago. …
The new ‘bond-age’, climate crisis and the case for climate reparations: Unpicking old/new colonialities of finance for development within the SDGs
Racial capitalism and climate justice: White redemptive power and the uneven geographies of eco-imperial crisis
(Un)Just transitions and Black dispossession: The disposability of Caribbean ‘refugees’ and the political economy of climate justice
Caribbean populations face increased displacement, dispossession and debt burdens due to shocks related to climate change. As the major neighbouring power that is the most significant historical contributor to global warming, the United States has persistently deflected from this responsibility. Instead, its climate plans are weaponized to target potential climate refugees who constitute a ‘national security threat’ and are faced with risks of pr…
From the plantation to the deep blue sea: Naturalising debt, ordinary disasters, and postplantation ecologies in the Caribbean
This paper critically assesses debt as a response to ecological, fiscal, and climate disasters that have emerged within the 'blue economy' agenda in the Caribbean. Caribbean countries routinely suffer major losses of life, internal social and economic displacement, increased debt burdens, and significant economic damages due to hurricanes and ecological disasters in the context of an ongoing fiscal crisis. In response, regional public and nationa…
For politics, people, or the planet? The political economy of fossil fuel reform, energy dependence and climate policy in Haiti
Financing a Global Green New Deal: Greening Capitalism or Taming Financialization for a New 'Civilizing' Multilateralism
Structuralism and Human Development: A Seamless Marriage? An Assessment of Poverty, Production and Environmental Challenges in Caricom Countries
The article examines the current human development experience of CARICOM nations focusing on the interconnected challenges of poverty, production and the environment that show continuing uneven development. Using an extended structuralist framework based on international political economy dynamics, it incorporates organizational dynamics and domestic politics, especially the role of rents in influencing productive and inclusive development. In th…
Power to the People!”: The Catalytic Role of the Black Power Movement in Trinidad and Tobago’s Industrialization
Recent developmental state research highlights state-society configurations and contentious politics in shaping industrialization. Still, much of this work focuses on East Asia and tends to sidestep racialized labor exploitation, imperialism, and uneven incorporation into the global capitalist system through the trans-Atlantic slave trade and colonialism as important drivers. Through an historical analysis of Trinidad and Tobago, this paper exami…
Continuity, change and contradictions in late steel‐based industrialization: The “global color line” in Trinidad and Tobago's postcolonial economy
This paper offers an alternative explanation of the performance of the steel industry in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T). The steel industry emerged due to social mobilizations demanding changes to the colonial economy by investing natural resources in state‐led industrialization and welfare improvement. This investigation contends that the “resource curse” account that describes so‐called intrinsic social pathologies whereby postcolonial actors interf…
The Dynamics of Industrial Development in a Resource-Rich Developing Society: A Political Economy Analysis
This article criticizes the resource curse thesis for neglecting the interplay of international factors and domestic politics, that is the political settlement, in explaining industrial performance in a resource-dependent society – Trinidad and Tobago. Using political settlement, analysis secondary as well as interview data, it examines the dynamics at the macro and sectoral levels in iron and steel and telecommunications in Trinidad and Tobago. …
WITHDRAWN–Administrative Duplicate Publication The Dynamics of Industrial Development in a Resource-Rich Developing Society: A Political Economy Analysis
Perry, K. K. (2018). The dynamics of industrial development in a resource-rich developing society: A political economy analysis. Journal of Developing Societies , 1-33. https://doi.org/10.1177/0049085718786136 Sage Publishing regrets that due to an administrative error, this article was accidentally published Online First and in Volume 34 Issue 3 with different DOIs. There was no duplication of the article in the printed and online version of Vol…
The Dynamics of Industrial Development in a Resource-Rich Developing Society: A Political Economy Analysis
This article criticizes the resource curse thesis for neglecting the interplay of international factors and domestic politics, that is the political settlement, in explaining industrial performance in a resource-dependent society – Trinidad and Tobago. Using political settlement, analysis secondary as well as interview data, it examines the dynamics at the macro and sectoral levels in iron and steel and telecommunications in Trinidad and Tobago. …
For politics, people, or the planet? The political economy of fossil fuel reform, energy dependence and climate policy in Haiti
Structuralism and Human Development: A Seamless Marriage? An Assessment of Poverty, Production and Environmental Challenges in Caricom Countries
The article examines the current human development experience of CARICOM nations focusing on the interconnected challenges of poverty, production and the environment that show continuing uneven development. Using an extended structuralist framework based on international political economy dynamics, it incorporates organizational dynamics and domestic politics, especially the role of rents in influencing productive and inclusive development. In th…
The new ‘bond-age’, climate crisis and the case for climate reparations: Unpicking old/new colonialities of finance for development within the SDGs
Financing a Global Green New Deal: Greening Capitalism or Taming Financialization for a New 'Civilizing' Multilateralism
Continuity, change and contradictions in late steel‐based industrialization: The “global color line” in Trinidad and Tobago's postcolonial economy
This paper offers an alternative explanation of the performance of the steel industry in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T). The steel industry emerged due to social mobilizations demanding changes to the colonial economy by investing natural resources in state‐led industrialization and welfare improvement. This investigation contends that the “resource curse” account that describes so‐called intrinsic social pathologies whereby postcolonial actors interf…
Power to the People!”: The Catalytic Role of the Black Power Movement in Trinidad and Tobago’s Industrialization
Recent developmental state research highlights state-society configurations and contentious politics in shaping industrialization. Still, much of this work focuses on East Asia and tends to sidestep racialized labor exploitation, imperialism, and uneven incorporation into the global capitalist system through the trans-Atlantic slave trade and colonialism as important drivers. Through an historical analysis of Trinidad and Tobago, this paper exami…
Racial capitalism and climate justice: White redemptive power and the uneven geographies of eco-imperial crisis
(Un)Just transitions and Black dispossession: The disposability of Caribbean ‘refugees’ and the political economy of climate justice
Caribbean populations face increased displacement, dispossession and debt burdens due to shocks related to climate change. As the major neighbouring power that is the most significant historical contributor to global warming, the United States has persistently deflected from this responsibility. Instead, its climate plans are weaponized to target potential climate refugees who constitute a ‘national security threat’ and are faced with risks of pr…
From the plantation to the deep blue sea: Naturalising debt, ordinary disasters, and postplantation ecologies in the Caribbean
This paper critically assesses debt as a response to ecological, fiscal, and climate disasters that have emerged within the 'blue economy' agenda in the Caribbean. Caribbean countries routinely suffer major losses of life, internal social and economic displacement, increased debt burdens, and significant economic damages due to hurricanes and ecological disasters in the context of an ongoing fiscal crisis. In response, regional public and nationa…
Unsettling the Plantation “Babylon” System: Humanness beyond Disaster, Reparative Ecologies and Caribbean Freedom
By imperial design, the Caribbean region was created as uneven yet interconnected archipelagos of Black dispossession, devaluation and dehumanisation. On this basis, Caribbean leaders have initiated calls for reparatory justice, demanding restitution for longstanding systemic inequalities stemming largely from plantation slavery, colonialism and native genocide. This paper interrogates the Caribbean program for reparatory justice drawing out its …
Epistemic silences, subversive politics: Post-disaster economic assessments as technologies of persistent coloniality and route to an emancipatory climate justice agenda in the Caribbean
Economic analyses of losses and damages or post-disaster needs assessments (PDNAs) are silent about the longstanding reparatory claims related to the legacies of African enslavement, colonial violence and indigenous dispossession that compound uneven racialized geographies in the Caribbean. This paper unpacks these so-called ‘objective’ valuations drawing attention to their (neo)liberal framings, technocratic underpinnings, and historical origins…
Political science (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Development economics (9 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (5 works) · Climate change (5 works) · Climate justice (5 works)