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

虽然加勒比地区是非洲以外非洲裔人口第二多的地区，但对种族，特别是黑人，相互影响和影响性别暴力经历和预防方案的方式的探索远远不足。联合国可持续发展目标5 （UNSDG5）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、排斥和剥削的再生产和扩大而构建的（Wilson, 2017; White 2002）。因此，特立尼达和多巴哥（T&T）的人口明显多样化（包括非洲人、亚洲人、土著、欧洲人和克里奥尔人）是研究的案例。本研究旨在：探索种族、性别和暴力如何在T&T中交叉，并确定它对减轻GBV的组织和经历暴力的个人的影响。这项研究建立在我的硕士论文的基础上，该论文定位了巴西黑人女性活动家的种族化剥夺权力的形成，例如社会内部团体实行肤色歧视和国家议程，这些团体在历史上沉默了黑人女性的暴力和种族化现实。作为硕士课程的一部分，我接受了性别暴力干预专家的指导，并完成了公共事务、国际发展和性别暴力（区分）模块。身为一名圣文森特女子，我对加勒比海妇女议题的热情已发展成研究咨询公司、有影响力的部落格（@TashasParadise），以及包括我的伙伴组织在内的联络网：完整与健康咨询服务（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).