Warmest congratulations to our dear friend Ian Bethell-Bennett (go, Tony!!!) and Jessica Minnis for their edited collection of essays The Inequity of Caribbean Spaces and Designed Places: Race, Class and Gender (Berghahn Books, 2026). The book includes an introduction and concluding chapter by Bethell-Bennett and Jessica Minnis, and essays by Rhoda Arrindell, Ian Bethell-Bennett, Mayuri Deka, Brian Hudson, Morgane Le Guyader, Raymond Laureano-Ortiz, Alison McLetchie, Anna Kasafi Perkins, Michael T. Stevenson, and Natino Thompson.
Description: The views of space and place of people living in the Caribbean are different from Northern folk; inequality is bound to socially constructed traits like race, gender, class, sexual orientation and other aspects of discrimination. Through interconnected perspectives on environment, gender inequality, identity and Caribbean spatial re-colonisation influences on social, cultural and environmental landscapes, The Inequity of Caribbean Spaces and Designed Places: Race, Class and Gender examines socio-spatial (in)justices beyond physical and geographical boundaries that Caribbean societies face.
Ian Bethell-Bennett is a professor of English, adjunct in the School of Social Sciences, and former dean of Liberal and Fine Arts at the University of The Bahamas. He participated in National Exhibition 7, NE8, NE9, NE 10 as well as in 2018 Double Dutch Hot Water with Plástico Fantástico, and Evolution of the Arc. He has co-edited Tourism, Governance and Sustainability in The Bahamas (Routledge, 2020) with Sophia Rolle and Jessica Minnis and Pandemics, Disasters, Sustainability, Tourism: An Examination of Impact on and Resilience in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (Emerald 2022) with Minnis, Rolle and Fevzi Okuus.
Jessica Minnis is a professor of Sociology, University of The Bahamas. She co-edited the book Junkanoo and Religion (Media Enterprises, 2002), co-edited with Sophia Rolle and Ian Bethell-Bennett Tourism, Governance and Sustainability in The Bahamas (Routledge 2020), and Pandemics, Disasters, Sustainability, Tourism: An Examination of Impact on and Resilience in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (Emerald 2022) with Rolle, Bethell-Bennett.
The Inequity of Caribbean Spaces and Designed Places: Race, Class and Gender
Edited by Ian Bethell-Bennett and Jessica Minnis
Berghahn Books, June 2026
394 pages
ISBN 978-1-83695-520-7 (hc)
For more information, see https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Bethell-BennettInequity and https://doi.org/10.3167/9781836955207
Warmest congratulations to our dear friend Ian Bethell-Bennett (go, Tony!!!) and Jessica Minnis for their edited collection of essays The Inequity of Caribbean Spaces and Designed Places: Race, Class and Gender (Berghahn Books, 2026). The book includes an introduction and concluding chapter by Bethell-Bennett and Jessica Minnis, and essays by Rhoda Arrindell, Ian Bethell-Bennett, Mayuri
