Of homelands and global Blackness, or a trans-Atlantic tale of Caribbean relationalities: A geographic manifesto for change

Abstract

This reflection traces my intellectual journey to geography. It focuses on the emergence of Global Black Geographies as a key methodological framework in my PhD research. The article explores its application to my work alongside my move from Jamaica to the United Kingdom. Global Black Geographies, which takes some of its cues from Black Geographies, is a field that powerfully interrogates the multiply complex definitions and geographies of Blackness in many parts of the world, including the Caribbean. I thus use the experience of my PhD research as a lens to demonstrate how Caribbean scholarship bridges Black Geographies scholarship and some of its more global concerns. In doing so, I reveal the central role Caribbean Studies have played in the development of Black Geographies, which ultimately connects my research interests to a context of several globally Black concerns.