Beverley Mullings

I am interested in the ways that contemporary capitalist regimes are transforming how racialized communities in the majority world reproduce themselves. Drawing upon decolonial, anti-colonial and feminist theories and debates, I am engaged in projects that explore how transformations in the value of work, the emergence of new urban governance regimes, and the growing financialization of everyday life are shifting the terrain of struggle of historically devalued and dispossessed populations. Much of my scholarship is located in the Caribbean and its diaspora, a region that I view as an important place of geographical theory making given its historical role in the world capitalist system. I also have a longstanding commitment to the promotion of structures to support mental wellness in the academy and currently co-chair the Association of American Geographer’s Mental Health in the Academy Affinity Group.

I am currently engaged in three research projects: the first explores the place of diasporic dialogue in the revival of Caribbean Radical Traditions; the second examines the finance/security nexus and its imbrication in racial logics; and the third project traces the relationshship between Caribbean middle-class formation and Black liberation struggles. I welcome students who are interested in extending the boundaries of economic geography, through the application of racial analytics to study economies and economic relationships. I am especially interested in supervising students who want to develop black political economy approaches to the study of work, labour regimes, finance and social economies.

Publications

Mullings, B. 2022. Racial capitalism, coloniality and the financialization of Caribbean remittances. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space:0308518X221075351.

Mullings, B. 2022. Criminalization on a World Scale: Racial Capitalism, Finance, and the Crime of Poverty in the Caribbean. Small Axe 67.

Mullings, B. 2021. Caliban, social reproduction and our future yet to come. Geoforum 118:150-158.

Santos Ocasio, N. and B. Mullings. 2021. Sociability and Social Reproduction in Times of Disaster Exploring the Role of Expressive Urban Cultural Practices in Haiti and Puerto Rico. In A Feminist Urban Theory for our Time: Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban., ed. L.  Peake; E. Koleth; G.S. Tanyildiz; R.N. Reddy; and d.patrick: John Wiley and Sons.

Mullings, B. 2012. Governmentality, Diaspora Assemblages and the Ongoing Challenge of ‘Development’. Antipode 44:406-427.