Order my new book and get a 40% discount.

You can now order a copy of my new book on the Temple University Press website, and get a 40% discount. Use the code GLOCAR19 to receive the discount. It will be out in mid-July. 

Interview on the Caribbean & the Trump administration's policies toward the region

Here is a two-part video interview that I conducted with the listener-sponsored alternative media outlet The Real News Network.   We discuss current events in the Caribbean, focusing on the Trump administration’s new aggressive policies toward Cuba and its attempts to divide CARICOM.  The videos are posted below: 

Part One

Part Two

Global Capitalism in the Caribbean

The 2018 summer issue of NACLA Report on the Americas includes my new article: "Global Capitalism in the Caribbean".  Read the article here or download the PDF here. Here is a French and Spanish translation of the article.

Check out the new issue of the @NACLA , focusing on Capitalism, Colonialism, and Climate Change in Caribbean. Nearly a year after Hurricanes Irma and Maria rocked the Caribbean, what lessons can we glean as we approach the 2018 hurricane season? pic.twitter.com/aqIhf12ruv

— LAPerspectives (@LAPerspectives) June 19, 2018

Forthcoming book with Temple University Press

I am happy to announce that Temple University Press will publish in early-2019 my second sole-authored book.  It will be titled: Globalizing the Caribbean: Political Economy, Social Change, and the Transnational Capitalist Class.  

The Caribbean cruise ship business and the emergence of a transnational capitalist class

The Journal of World-Systems Research published a new peer-reviewed journal article that I have authored. 

Through the context of the Caribbean region, this article examines the globalizing cruise ship business and its changing strategies for the exploitation of labor and local communities. You can read the article here.

New article published in the peer reviewed journal Caribbean Studies

Click here for a PDF of my new article published in the scholarly journal Caribbean Studies.  This is an altered version of one chapter in my recently completed Ph.D. dissertation: The Caribbean and Global Capitalism.  The article is titled: "From International to Transnational Mining: The Industry's Shifting Political Economy and the Caribbean". The English, Spanish, and French versions of the abstract are below. Click here for a URL link to the journal.

New Op-Ed in teleSUR: Jamaica & the Politics of Debt Trap

I have published here in teleSUR a new piece titled "Jamaica and the Politics of Debt Trap" that I wrote while conducting research in Kingston, Jamaica. A Spanish version of the article is available here.