Racing Development: Violence, Race and Gender in Trinidad and Tobago

虽然加勒比地区的非洲人后裔人口在非洲以外位居第二，但种族，特别是黑人，如何交叉和影响基于性别的暴力和预防方案的经验，这方面的探讨严重不足。联合国可持续发展目标5（UNSDG 5）促进性别平等，但批评者认为，发展及其目标是围绕差异、不平等、排斥和剥削的复制和扩展而构建的（Wilson，2017;白色，2002）。因此，特立尼达和托巴哥人口明显多样化（包括非洲人、亚洲人、土著人、欧洲人和克里奥尔人）的特立尼达和多巴哥（T&T）就是研究的案例。这项研究旨在：探索种族，性别和暴力如何在T&T交叉，并确定它对减轻GBV和个人经历violence.This研究建立在我的硕士论文，其中定位的种族化的非裔巴西妇女的活动家，如内部社会团体实行colourism和国家议程，历史上沉默的暴力，黑人妇女的种族化的现实权力的形成。作为我硕士的一部分，我收到了GBV干预专家的指导，并完成了公共事务，国际发展和性别暴力（区别）模块。作为一名妇女，我对加勒比妇女问题的热情已经发展成为研究咨询，一个有影响力的博客（@TashasParadise）和一个联系网络，包括我的伙伴组织：整体和健康咨询服务（WWCS），冲突妇女和妇女替代发展研究所（WINAD）。

Although the Caribbean has the second largest population of people of African descent outside of Africa, the ways that race, specifically blackness, intersect and shape experiences of GBV and prevention programmes is significantly under-explored. The UN Sustainable Development Goal 5 (UNSDG5) promotes gender equality, yet critics argue that development and its goals are structured around the reproduction and extension of difference, inequality, exclusion and exploitation (Wilson, 2017; White 2002). Thus, Trinidad and Tobago (T&T), with its conspicuously diverse population (including African, Asian, Indigenous, European and Creole) is the case study. This research aims to: explore how race, gender and violence intersect in T&T and identify the impact it has on organisations mitigating GBV and individuals experiencing violence.This research builds from my MSc dissertation which located formations of racialised disempowerment for Afro-Brazilian women's activists such as intra-social groups practicing colourism and national agendas that historically silence the violent, racialised realities of black women. As a part of my Master's I received mentoring from GBV-intervention specialists and completed the module Public Affairs, International Development and Gendered Violence (Distinction). As a Vincentian woman, my passion about Caribbean women's issues has developed into research consultancies, an influential blog (@TashasParadise) and a network of contacts including my partner organisations: Wholeness and Wellness Counselling Services (WWCS), Conflict Women and Women's Institute for AlternativeDevelopment (WINAD).