Campus
- Scarborough (UTSC)
Cross-Appointments
Fields of Study
- Culture & History
- Rural
- Social & Political Geography
- Urban
Areas of Interest
Black Geographies, Racial capitalism, Caribbean Studies, Land, livelihood and informal economies, Social reproduction, Urban-rural interfaces.
Biography
Rachel Goffe is a geographer and architect. Her work is concerned with place-making and livelihood and how these are negotiated with, through and against state formation. She investigates transformations of the postcolonial state by researching the mobility of the boundary around “formal” relationships to land, and space more broadly. She has done research on the encounter between emerging public policy to curtail squatting and Caribbean radical traditions linked to durable yet insecure land tenure. Her next project investigates how global legalized cannabis policy shifts the Jamaican landscape. While Rachel’s work is sited in Jamaica, it aims to intervene in theories regarding incomplete enclosure and racial capitalism, social reproduction, and abolition geographies.
Publications
Reproducing the Plot: Making Life in the Shadow of Premature Death. Special Issue, Outside the Wage. Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12812
Capture Land: Anti-Squatting Policy as Processual Land Grab in Jamaica. In Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing. Andreas Neef, Chanrith Ngin, Tsegaye Moreda, and Sharlene Mollett, editors. Routledge. (in production)
Commentary. Symposium for the 20 year anniversary of Postnationalism Prefigured. Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. (under review) [see event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH-8YBZAIME]
Invited Panelist. with Andil Gosine, Donna Ashamock and Ali Kazimi (moderator). Michael Baptista Lecture Series: “Fly Me to the Moon: Imagining a Future Beyond Extraction.” Sponsored by the Centre for Research on Latin American and the Caribbean. York University [see event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkcRR_HrsAM]