Intersections of Gender, Race and Class

This British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant project examines the post-colonial Caribbean, where complex gendered, raced and classed relations inherited from plantation slavery and indentureship weigh heavily on national food systems and the day-to-day lives of farmers and fishers, particularly small, female and marginalised producers. It creates new knowledge through: undertaking archival research on the historical construction of Caribbean foodways; conducting qualitative interviews with policymakers; and applying a novel gendered, intersectional and historical approach to the political economy of food. It consequently interrogates how historical inequalities influence the everyday functioning of Caribbean foodways, with a particular focus on Trinidad and Tobago, and how policy might take better account of them.