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Patricia Northover, Ph.D.

Senior Research Fellow
Focus: 
Race Critical Development Studies and Decolonial Thought; Climate change, rural and food studies; The Philosophy of Economics and Research; Ethics, Decolonial Pedagogy and Justice
Email: 
patricia.northover@uwimona.edu.jm
Tel: 
(876) 927-1020
Fax: 
(876) 927-2409

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Bio

My principal interest lies in advancing critical philosophy and development theory, as a method of interrogating and critiquing the processes and projects of globalization and development. This drives my eclecticism in terms of drawing on other areas of thought (such as post-structural, post- colonial and de-colonial perspectives as well as from critical realism and creolization discourses) which are concerned with a critical grasp of the nature of modern power and the character of 'freedom', inclusive of their rationalities and technologies for sustaining '(un)freedoms.' My abiding concern thus lies with the problem of 'power' and 'development' in 'history,' and its various articulations of modes of social justice, as well as growth and development projects, in producing pathways for change. In particular, I am concerned to examine how, even in the quest for improvement or human well-being, certain mechanisms (discursive and material) and modalities come into play by which human beings, social groups, as well as certain spaces and states are marginalized and subject to diverse forms of violence and complex patterns of 'othering.' My research interests on modern economic growth, the history of sugar and change, rural poverty and development, globalization, gender and climate justice stem from these concerns.