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About Aleem Mahabir
Aleem Mahabir is a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. His research interests lie at the intersection of Urban Geography, Social Exclusion and Psychology. His dissertation research focuses on the link among psychosocial dispositions, exclusion and under-development among marginalized populations in Caribbean cities, with a focus on Port of Spain, Trinidad. Although his primary interests pertain to Urban Geography, he has previously engaged in interdisciplinary work in a number of research areas broadly related to Inequality, Injustice, Food Insecurity, Environmental Sustainability, Tourism, Criminology, and Caribbean Studies.NBN Episodes hosted by Aleem:
April 2, 2024
The Sexual Politics of Empire
Evangelical Christians and members of the global LGBTQI human rights movement have vied for influence in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake. Each side ac…
November 6, 2023
Housing and Life Course Dynamics
Deepening inequalities and wider processes of demographic, economic, and social change are altering how people across the Global North move between ho…
August 7, 2023
Housing for Hope and Wellbeing
Housing and neighborhoods have an important contribution to make to our wellbeing and our sense of our place in the world. Housing for Hope and Wellbe…
August 5, 2023
Emerging Global Cities
Certain cities—most famously New York, London, and Tokyo—have been identified as “global cities,” whose function in the world economy transcends natio…
July 16, 2023
Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging
In Caribbean American Narratives of Belonging (Ohio State University Press, 2023), Vivian Nun Halloran analyzes memoirs, picture books, comic books, y…
May 12, 2023
Power on the Move
Throughout centuries of persecution and marginalization, the Roma and Adivasi have been viewed as both victims and fighters, as royals and paupers, be…
April 18, 2023
In the Shadow of Tungurahua
In the Shadow of Tungurahua: Disaster Politics in Highland Ecuador (Rutgers University Press, 2023) relates the stories of the people of Penipe, Ecuad…
February 2, 2023
Dougla in the Twenty-First Century
Identity is often fraught for multiracial Douglas, people of both South Asian and African descent in the Caribbean. In this groundbreaking volume titl…
January 8, 2023
The Unexceptional Case of Haiti
In The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society (University Press of Mississippi, 2022), Philippe-Richa…
November 16, 2022
Energy without Conscience
In Energy without Conscience: Oil, Climate Change, and Complicity (Duke University Press, 2017), David McDermott Hughes investigates why climate chang…
November 7, 2022
Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean
In Natural Disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Coping with Calamity (Routledge, 2021), June Carolyn Erlick explores the relationship between…
November 7, 2022
The Deepest Dye
In The Deepest Dye: Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World (Harvard University Press, 2021), Aisha Khan explores how colonial categories of race…
October 24, 2022
The Day I Became a Hurricane
The Day I Became a Hurricane (Hooked on Books Jamrock, 2022) is a children's educational book on hurricanes written by Dr. Rose-Ann Smith. Based on c…