Rachel Goffe
Teaching Interests
- GGRB13 Social Geography (UTSC)
- GGRD49 Land and Land Conflicts in the Americas (UTSC)
- JPG1825 Black Geographies of the Atlantic (UTSG)
Research Interests
I am a geographer and a licensed architect. My work is concerned with place-making, livelihood and how these aspects of life are shaped through, and in tension with, public policy. My research is primarily sited in Jamaica where I am from originally and has focused on the encounter between recent policy to curtail squatting and traditions of Black life that emerged through durable yet insecure possession of small parcels of land.
- · Black Geographies
- · Racial capitalism
- · Caribbean Studies
- · Land, livelihood and informal economies
- · Social reproduction
- · Urban-rural interfaces
Awards and Grants
Connaught New Researcher Award, 2021
Publications
Goffe, R. (in press). “What Lies Here, beyond Boundary?” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. 73(3).
Goffe, R. (2023) “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.
Goffe, R. (2023) “Reproducing the Plot: Making Life in the Shadow of Premature Death.” Special Issue, Outside the Wage. Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography. 55(4): 985-1295.